The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-19
s. J. DALLAS IS
 NEW PRESIDENT OF AMATEUR UNION
Philadelphia Man Elected to Handle Athletic Af-
 fairs in 1919.


 mously elected president of the Ana teur Athletic Union of the United States. Frederick W. Rubien, New York; was reelected secretary treas urer, and the following were named vice presidents: J. F. Conway, Bos- ton; J. T. Taylor, Pittsburgh; Robert Weaver, Los Angeles; Latrobe Cogs- well, Baltimore. The next annual meeting will be held in Boston
 The junior, senior, and all-around championship meet was not awarded, the committee having jurisdiction holding up for further consideration the one application received. It was from the Hog Island Shipyard Athletic Association.
 Other national championships awarded are as follows: Ten mile run and seven mile Balk, Brooklyn A. C.; swimming, oG1door, 100 yards, straightaway and 44O yards. Lincoln Park, B. G.: Chicago; S8O yards, United Labor League, Pittsburgh; one mile, Multonomah A. C., Portland, Ore; ten miles, Riverton, (N. J.) Yacht Club; high diving, Buckeye A. C., Columbus, Ohio.
 
 cago A. A; 100 yards, Pittsburgh A. A; 220 yards, Detroit, A. C.; 500 yards, Pittsburgh A. A; back stroke, Detroit; breast stroke, women, Co., lumbus; fancy diving, women, Los Angeles; 100 yards, women, Philadel- phia Turngeminde; basket ball, Los Angeles A.. C.; boxing, Boston A. C.; gymnastic, Los Angeles A. C.; wrest- ling, Birmingham, Ala; hand ball. Los Angeles A. c.
 The A. A. U. rejected one record, that of Duke: P. Kahanamoku, Hon. olulu, who claimed a record of 100 4-5 in the 110-yard open title salt water straightaway event. It was said the start in which the Hawaiian made the time was irregular.
 The constitution of the union was amended so that an amateur athlete who became a paid instructor in army camps shall not lose his amateur standing.
 The delegates rejected an amend ment proposed by the Pacific Asso. citation, that foreign athletes shall not be eligible to compete in champion | ships.
 
 for athletic equipment in army camps in Porto Rico and S3,O0O will be dis tributed for camp athletic equipment in this country during the demobil- ization period.
 l Joie w. Ray, thas turdy little Iillin- l ois A. c. runner made one American running record and equalIed another during the athletic year just closed according to statistics approved by the Record Committee. Ray eclips- ed the five-year-old mark of J. P. Driscon for the 1,32Oyard run, when he covered the distance in 3:05 at the | games of the John Wanamaker 1 Commercial Institute held in Madison 1 Square Garden, March 20. Dris- coils mark was 3:07, and he made ] 1t in 1913.
 The record which Ray equal1ed is for 1000 yards indoors. This mark 2:14, was established by the late John- ny Overton of Yale, in the national ! indoor championship meet of 1917.
 Charlie Pores, Pelham Bay Maya; Training Station, will get a new American record for his time in win ming the five-mile championship at ! the recent national title meet. Pores l time was 24:36 4-5, displacing he mark of 25:0S made by flames Ko- ! lehmainen in 1913.
 In swimming, Norman Ross of the i Olympic club, San Francisco, was the i most successful performer. Ross es- tablished five new American records He swam 200 yards in a nine-turn bath in 2:06 Is, 300 yards in a four teen-turn bath in 3:16 3-5, 40 yards in a twenty-one-turn bath in 5:O8 4-5 and 500 yards in a twenty-four- turn bath in 5:53 .2-5.
 Harold Kruger and Duke Kahana- moku, the Hawaiian swimmers, each had two record performances to their credit Kruger swam the S10O-yard backstroke straightaway in open still water in 1:10 2-5; 15O yards in open tidal water, two turns, in 1:54 4-S, and the 1OO-meter backstroke in open still water straightaway in 1:1T 1-5. Kahanamoku's marks were for 1OO- meter open still salt water, one turn, 1:01 2-5; 120 yards open still salt water, one turn, 1:O7 2-5, and the 200-yards in open tidal water in 2:11 25. Perry McGilltvray, Great Lakes Naval Training Station, had two marks viz: The 220-yard open still water, straightaway, 2:21 1-5, and 150yard backstroke in a i've turn bath, f:481-5. W. L. Wallen, also of the Great Lakes Station, made a record at the 44Oyard open still water straightaway swim of 5:25.
 Miss Claire Galligan of the New York Women's Swimming Association, showed the way to women natators in making records. She had four of them as follows: The 880-yard, over 220 yards straightaway, open tidal water, 13:81 4-5; 1000 yards, over a | 1OO-yard straightaway, 1O:5O 2-5; one mile, over a 1OO-yard straightaway, 29:3S 2-5, and 220-yard straightaway, open water, slightly against tide, 3:02 S-5. Miss Olga Dorfner, Phila- delphia Gymnasium Society, had two marks to her credit. She swam the 100-yard straightaway, open still water, in 1:06 2-5, and the 220-yard open still water, two turns, in 2:56 2-5. For the 8S0-yard open still water, eight-turn swim. Miss Frances Cowells set a mark of 13:46 2-5, and for the 1OO-yard backstroke in a four turn bath, Miss Ruth Smith, Colum- bus A. C., Pittsburgh, set mark of 1:37 1-5. The Philadelphia Turnge- meinde women's relay team set a mark of 5:G6 for the 4O0-yard relay