The sun., 1918-12-22
ERASMUS CINCHES
SWIMMING TITLE
Needs Only to Beat Stuyvesant
to Win marlborough Dual
Championship.
SEVERAL RECORDS MADE

BY defeating the De witt Clinton
natators in the Central Y. NJ. C. A pool
in Brooklyn yesterday by 80 to Is, the
Erasmus Hall swimmers practically
clinched the p 8. A L. interborough
dual swimming championship. The Buff
and Blue lads, to win the title, need only
| to dispose Of Stuyvesant To date they
have defeated Commerce twice, Boys
High twice and Clinton once.
Erasmus, as in all previous meets,
again shattered some marks. These.
however will not go In the official record
book, as the P. g. A. L only recognizes
ros rks made in the individual champion
ships which are held late In March. The
marks to suffer yesterday were the 200
YARD relay. 100 yard swim and the 22O
yard event
The best performance of the meet by
the Erasmus lads was the winning OF the
| 220 yard relay In the fast time of min
ute IS 90 seconds. This shattered the
old figures OF minutes 13 2-5 seconds
made by the High School of Commerce
four on February 81. 1909. by eighteen
seconds. The Buff and Blue quartet
| led from start to finish and was fifteen
yards to the good at the end.
Ross Best at the 22O.
| Clarence Ross Of Erasmus Hall was
the record breaker in the 220 yard swim
and his team mate, j. BurTill, beat the
figures in the century swim. Ross In
winning the furlong swim was clicked
| in minutes 81 1-5 seconds This was
Just eight and three-fifths seconds bet
ter than the time made by Leo Gieoel.
the former Stuyvesant swimmer, when
no established the record in the cham
pionsaips of 1916. Ross won by fifteen
yards.
Burrlll in the century swim clipped
| two seconds from the mark set by Ted
| Cam, the former High School of Com
merca swimmer, which has been stand
ing since March IL. 1915. Burrill, who
won the event by eight yards. was
clocked in minute % seconds.
Another noteworthy performance was
that Of II. McMullen of Erasmus Hall in
winning the fifty yard swim in the fine
I time of IS % seconds This was only
one second behind the mark made by
Hal Vollmer, the former Stuyvesant
natator. in 1913. McMulen won the
race by three yards from teammate,
r Franken.
The only events won by the New York
lads were the plunge for distance and
the fancy dive. Charles Rosengren, the
schoolboy plunge champion. accounted
for his teams victory in that event,
while J. FRESHMAN accounted for Ciin-
TONS other victory in the dive.
Won the Plunge by o Feet.
Rosengren took the plunge with the
fine float of SO feet This was Just nine
feet better than his nearest rivals
plunge, IL. Suskind OF Erasmus Hall.
who was second c. Ross. another
Erasmus lad. was third with AZ feet.
Pressman in the dive was hard pressed
throughout by a. Kirkpatrick of Eras-
mus Hall. whom he beat by little more
than two points. Pressman collected
1850 points while the Bun and Blues
divers best efforts netted him 71S5
points.
r Franken OF Erasmus Hall. who fin
ished second in the fifty yard swim, was
third with 62.7j points The summaries
200 Yard Relay Race-Won by Erasmus
Hail. with Burrill. Rose;ti, Franken and
Ross Ia Witt clinton, with PressmRR.
Mei-owiIz: Hall and Bergman, second.
Plunge for Distauce-won by (, Roscn-
sren,, pe VII, clinton is VIII :, 80 feet
ond c. Ross. Erasmus Hall, with Al fee.
third.
Erasmus HAN: r Franisen. Erasmus Hail,
second w Lu kott, Dc W.tt Clinton. third.
Time. IS IN seconds.
VIII clinton. with 10 so points. A. Kirk
patrick Erasmus Hall, with n ~ points,
second; H. Franken. Erasmus Hall. with
e. - points third.
go Yard Swim-won by G. Ross Eras-
mus Han: n Lowey, De wife clinton see
onl; II. McMullen, Erasmus Hail, third.
Tine = 81 -
100 ard Swim-Won by !. BurrII Eras-
mus Hall. b Rosetti. Erasmus Han sec
ond j. Hall, De witt Clinton, third. Time.
I 90 20.
Final FONT Score-Erasmus Hail High
I school, IS; De witt Clinton. high
school, IS.