The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-01-14
WORLDS SWIMMING
RECORDS THAT FILL

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The amazing growth Of swimming
during the year passing into history,
with the setting Of nine worlds rec
ofds, marks It beyond question as the
most progressive sport fostered in this
country.
Not only did American men smash
practically all the national and most OF
the international records, thereby at
filming world leadership, but women,
stimulated by the official recognition OF
the American Athletic Union, entered
the competitivs felo with enthusiasm
and placed to their credit performances
which, at the recent rate OF improve
ment. should In the near future give
them supremacy over foreign rivals.
.Kahanamokn Leads
Among the years leading features
may be classed the sensational sprint
ing Of Duke Rahanamoku, Of Honolulu;
the middle distance swimming of Ludy
LANCER, of the Los Angeles Athletic
Club; the back stroke performances Of
Harry Hebner, of the Illinois Athletic
Club; the tremendous increase of con-
testants in the scholastic and college
ranks; the appearance Of new candi7
date for international hohors in Her
bert Vollmer, of Columbia and the New
York Athletic Club; the general i'm
provement among opponents Of aquatic
endurance and the successful efforts Of
the National Collegiate Athletic Asso-
eiaticT; to standardize varsity water
sports throughout the United States.
Duke Kahanamoku displayed start'
ling speed over short courses. In open
water he shattered three world s rec
ords, covering so yards in 20 seconds,
100 yards In SO l-5 seconds and 220
yards in 2 minutes 20 seconds. In a
55-yard bath he broke two more, crawl
ing 100 yards in 81 2-5 seconds and 220
yards in minutes 20 2-5 seconds.
LANCER q Real star
LANCER took up the iconoclastic work
where the Hawaiian dropped it. He
established international standards of
Q minutes 32 l-5 seconds for 440 yards
IN open water, across tide, ll0-yard
courses and Of minutes Is As seconds
for 500 yards, in 75-yard pool; then
he lowered the national SS0-yard and
one-inile marks TO ~ minutes 6 seconds
and "a minutes 80 2-5 seconds, resPec-
lively, over a llo.yard course, across
tide. E lla
Hebner once more clipped the world >
time for swimming $50 yards on the
back, placing II at | minute 1885 Sec
onds for 75-yard bath. He also bet
tered twelve American free-style rec.
ords, but most of them at intermediate,
unlisted distances. His 400 yards in 4
minutes SO 10 seconds and $50 yards in
IL minutes IA l-5 seconds, 2O-yard pool,
are the exception.
Raathel Made Records
Other contributors to the free style
table Of standards were the following
Arthur R1ithel, Illinois Athletic Club,
40 yards In Is As seconds, 20-yard
bath; Perry McGillivray, Illinois Ath-
letic Club, $50 yards in minutes so Id
seconds and 800 yards in 3 minutes
20 is seconds, 20-yard bath, and Her
bert Vollmer, New York Athletic Club,
= 1000 yards in 10 minutes 80 3.5 sec,
onds, S0.yard bath. .
Kahanamoku and LANCER :.
In relay racing six world $ record,
were wiped out. Raithel, Mott, Heb
ner and McGilliyray, of the flIinoi.
Athletic Club, swan 200 yards, fifty
IyAfdb edcn, III 4 minute ~ E-O SCI
Tonds, and with Vosburgh replacing Mot
went 400 yards, l00yard relays, in
minutes As 3.5 seconds. VOllmer, Ram
lme, Nerieh, o Sullivan ard Bennett, o.
the New York Athletic Club, travelled
fifty yards apiece in the total time o.
p minutes 10 2-5 seconds, and Refill.
then completed 800 yards in minute
49, l-5 seconds, setting another stand
ard. T0llnler, Nerich, o Sullivan, Ram
me and Wheatley also lowered the SOC
yard figures to minutes SO 3-5 sec
onds Finally eighteen of the Mercur.
Foot sprinters negotiated one mil
(seventeen swimming 100 yards apiece
the eighteenth sixty YARDS in IS min
ptes 10 40 seconds, slicing about
half Minute OF the old mark.
Long D'Sanes Mark
Sterling work was done by the lon
distance swimmers, Bud Goodwin, o
The New York Athletic Club, won tn
Exposition three mile championship i
! hour AZ minutes 33 % seconds, tn
fastest performance ever chronicled q
the distance in open water. Charlie
Durborow. OF phi'ade!Ph a, swan ae ros
the Virginia CAGES, under most ,tryin
conditions, in 10 hours 81 seconds, an
though he failel 10 land, owing to tn
brealging sea, he actually covered tn
whole distance. Henry Miron, a. Boz
ION youth of eighteen, broke by abor