The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-01-14
KAHANAMOKU AND LANCER
WORLDS FASTEST MERMEN
Hawaiian and Californian Hang Up Swimming
Mark That Are Surprises: Women Also
Star In Making High Marks

half an hour the record for the Boston
Light course. reducing IL TO IA hours
another BOstonian, made the return
"a minutes 80 seconds. Charles 10th,
trip over the same route In Is hours
A seconds, and not only beat all preyi-
Gus marks, but Bothered the American
record of ID hours 10 minutes for con-
tinuous swimming. Robert bowling, Of
Spring Lake, N. j., swan the thirty
four miles around Manhattan Island
feat never before aecomplished-rin
13 hours As minutes.
In concluding the review Of free
style swimming, mention needs be
made of the 100-yard performance Of
Herbert Vollmer, in the New York
Athletic Club pool on December 4. He
was clicked in "a AS seconds, faster
time by two seconds than ever made by
Raithel, Hebner and McGillivray, the
speediest American sprinters, in the
same pool. Vs..
Laurels in breast stroke swimming
were garnered by Michael McDermott,
of the Illinois Athletic Club, who cut
his own national record for 100 yards
to ! minute 13 2-5 seconds, 20-yard
bath, and his 200-yard mark, same CON
ditions, to minutes 3s 2-5 seconds.
The championship in the plunge for
distance vas captured by j. Hurtig, Of
Cincinnati, but the years best mark,
rs feet, went to the credit of Craig
Redmond of Chicago University.
Led In Fancy Diving 49,.
Arthur McAleenan, IT,, of the New
York Athletic Club, proved the most
skilled fancy diver in springboard work
and his team mate, Albert Downes, de-
monstrated his supremacy in high div
ing. . f"
Both soccer and college water polo
gained popularity and made many re-
eruits. In the former game the Illinois
Athletic Cub team captured the title;
in the latter Princeton University won
its fourth consecutive championship.
In all around aquatics the IllinOnis
Athletic Club scored the most pointI
indoors, the New York Athletic Club
outdoors, in open national compotitio1,
while the fight among the colleges re-
suited in triple tie between Column
bia, Yale and Pennsylvania, and inter
scholastic hOnOTs were easily captured
by the Brookline High School, of BOs-
ton.
Fair Swimmers Surprise
OF the fair swimmers who achieved
fame in 1915 the foremost were Miss
Olga DOrfner, of the Philadelphia Turn
gemeinde, and the Misses Lucy Free
! man and Claire Galligan, of the Nation.
al-Women's Lifesaving League, New
York branch.
J .n.,,,kal al l.,
, 80 2-5 seconds, 100 yards straightaway
| in minute 9 3-5 seconds and 220 yards
| Cl10 yards open water course) in 3
minutes Is 2-5 seconds. The first mark
is worlds record, the second and
third being national standards very
close to world figures, when conditions
are considered. ....t
Miss Freeman did 440 yards in 7
minutes AZ second, $50 yards in IL
minutes As seconds and one mile in 35
minutes 81 seconds, all new American
records. The former was made in an
! S0-yard bath, the latter two over O ITO,
( yard stretch across current.
Miss Claire Galhgan eonclusively de
monstrated her superiority at distances
greater than one mile by easily defeat
J ing Miss Freeman, the record holder, II
two-mile race. Her time only missed
standard brackets because the course
was not officially surveyed.
1t is worthy of note that before thes,
three stars stepped into the limelight
in mid summer, Miss Dorothy BeckeJ
had broken the iftyyard world 3 rec
ord in Honolulu, Miss Frances Cowelll
I had lowered the national 100-yard ant
220-yard figures and Miss Marguerit,
Braek had bettered me 440-yard mark
This speedy trio halls from San Fran