New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-18
VolImer Only One of Many
Fine Performers of
Blue and White
BY FRANK O'NEILL

The University OF Columbis's swim
ming team, unbeaten in the round
robin tournament in the intercollegiate
Swimming League, is strong favorite
for the individual championships TO be
held in the natatorium OF the Univer-
sity Of Pennsylvania on next Saturday
night The Blue and White team Is
strong and well balanced in every de-
partment with the exception OF the
fancy diving. s. c. Merrill and Mills
are both clever performers. but they
scarcely measure up to championship
standards. Allowing for this weak
ness, there is still sufficient power on
the team 70 carry IL through.
Columbia has competed in eight dual
meets, winning all. It's victims include
the COLLEGE Of the City of New YORK
Rutgers, Yale, Princeton and Pennsyi-
vsnia. The margin of victory has been
wide in each instance. The Quakers
and the Bulldog managed 20 score
twenty points against the Blue ana
White, but the other teams were
forced TO rest content with fewer
credits. Princeton was vanQuished IN
two meets by the same scores 70
IA. The c. c. n. Y. was even less fort
innate. and bowed twice with the totals
/ resting at AZ 20 IL in each instance.
/ Yale and Penn were beaten by scores
/ OF 35 20 90, while Rutgers gathered
only 10 points to 43 for Columbia.
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/ Captain Hal Vollmer, who needs no
/ introduction 70 swimming enthusiasts,
/ is the star Of the team. He is support
/ ed by corps Of speedy performers,
/ however, and even were any unforeseen
circumstance 20 prevent him from
/ swimming, the team would not be hope
/ lessly out of il. Phil Herbert, boy
/ of great speed, is not far behind Noll-
mer over the half century. Ray Walk
er. Bob Howard, the Aging Californian;
Dick Rogers, Shorty McCabe, Hide
/ brand and Mort Levie. the human nor
whaI, round out the team.
Hal Vollmer, intercollegiate cham
pion at 22O yards. and holder Of the
/ intercollegiate record Of 80 2-5 seconds
for a century, stands out on the team.
He will swim in the 220-yard race OF
the championships on Saturday night
and will endeavor TO break the existing
record of minutes and 81 seconds, es-
tablished by Eben Gross, OF Princeton
in 1914. Nollmer has been timed mueh
faster than this record and Is conf
dent of hanging up new figures.
Holding the post of honor on tne
relay team, Vollmer has won his right
beyond all question. He sWims me
fifty Yards consistently, faster tnan 70
seconds. and has been timed on ms relay
in PALS seconds. The intercoHeg
record for the distance Is % ID SECONDS
Vollmer has been timed IN races, start
ing on gun fire in 20 % seconds. me
record for the fifty is at ms mercy,
or so competent judges declare. rank
sullivan, coach Of the Princeton team,
said recently that he would not De
surprised If Vollmer won three races IN
the championship. In dual meets tnls
winter Vollmer has scored SO points.
Herbert Close TO Yollmer.
Phil Herbert ranks second TO Won
mer. He is first man on the relay team
and swims in both the fifty yards ana
hundred yards races as wen. ne -
a powerful boy. broad shouldered and
d leeD cnetLEls Win WI az
and endurance. He is master OF
powerful crawl and Is improving all the
time. Herbert is capable Of twenty
ak seconds for the fifty yards and is,
moreover. consistent. He can cover
the century around the minute marx
and has done IS seconds in practice.
I'd Kennedy. coach Of the team, be
lieves that he will place in both the
fifty and 100 yard races. Herbert has
won 81 points in the dual meets.
Roy Walker is showing promise OF
developing into a high grade perform
or. He Is a member Of the relay team
and svims in the fifty yards race He
has covered the distance in 26 80 sec
onds repeatedly. What he will accom-
plish in the championship remains 70
be discovered. He seems reasonably
sure Of being on a winner in the relay
race. for the Columbia quarter has
given It's wash 70 all competitors.
Walker has scored % points in the
dual meets Dick Rogers and Shorty
McCabe are two clever boys on the
team. The former. who is on the re-
lay team, swims in the fifty yards and
in the furlong a. well. Both are good
for q seconds in the fifty. while Rogers
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