New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Miss Boyle
May Be Queen
OF Swimmers
Likely To Be Greatest of
All if She Isn't
That Now
By Louis Lee Arms

Very golden-ha and blue-eyed
and tanned is Miss Charlotte Boyle, of
Sea Gate, who is the latest coruscating
star in the metropolitan and national
swimming armament. 1t is exceeding
ly probable that some day she will be
the greatest feminine swimmer this
country has ever produced, if she is not
that now. Lou Handley, a shrewd
Judge of swimming material. says she
Will be. None who has seen her this
summer doubts it.
Miss Harriette Underhill, who does
all the motion pictures necessary on
The Tribune, approaches her victims
with Il fire sense of the informal that
might go we'll in sport. 1t is worth
trying.
We should no doubt begin at the be-
ginning, or where we met the new ma
tional champion on the boardwalk at
Brighton Beach. She was knitting.
She knits very we'll, but not as she
swims. Knitting is exercise for the
hands and the voice. Swimming il
much more arduous and is usually
silent.
TO give proper wartime touch to
the pictures which our pest photogra-
pher was about to make it was de-
termined that one should be made of
the new national sprints champion as
she knitted. If the sun didn't play a
w-down trick on Mr.. Kaplan, or if
nothing else happened that is in the
photographers handbook on acceptable
excuses to be otfe.ed when falling
down on picture, Miss Boyle will be
found In some column adjacent to this
in the act of knitting. That artistic
touch having been completed. we pro-
feeded to the swimming pictures, for
after all, Miss Boyle is swimmer of
note, not a knitter of note.
AS to Speed Swimming
Speed swimming is very different
from the kind of swimming that you
and | and SO of thousand do. The
height of our ambition is to stay on
me top, as 1T is somewhat difficult to
breath underneath. and we are salts
fed and happy if we can do that The
speed swimmer, on the other hand, has
reached that state of consummate as
surance where he or she refuses to
recognize any bottom to the ocean,
splashes in swashbuckling style
through the water, as though it were
easy as walking, and generally upsets
the physical law that man is heavier
than H2O and will sink in it with many
gurGles if afflicted with weary arms
or cramps in the stomach, though the
cramps necessarily need not be in the
stomach.
AT the tender age of seven years
Miss Boyle is how Twenty-Five very
golden haired and tanned girl who is
gong to hold a great number of ma
tlonal and worlds records ere she is
through, began swimming. She swan
3 nice homemade, four-cylinder stroke
that was built more for comfort than
1or speed. Five years ago her family
Miss Boyle's father is colonel in the
British army, end she isn't quite sure
ne would favor her swimming in so
much publicity and so many photo
graphs-moved to Sea Gate and Miss
Charlotte continued her unspectacular.
II comfortable, style of natation. This
wasn't waste of time Far from It,
Il ann glad that didn't try competitive
swimming too early" she told US. 81
tnlnk IT takes so much out of one that
ne should not begin until he has some
started when | was sixteen | am afraid
! would be swum out now. As IL is
the middle distances tire me greatly.
and in my race with Miss Gallipan At
rye beach | think | used every ounce
of strength l had"
Competitive Advent Recent
1t was not, as matter of fact until
one year ago last May that Miss Boyle
began swimming seriously. She had
just splashed around here and there
oad won novice race down at Conev
Island and was the feminine baseball
playing and swimming pride of Sea
Gate, but there was nothing serious
about it, ''o'
Then Louis de Handley, who is q
coach with few peers. and. better
competent judge of swimmers in the
rough, saw Miss Boyle splashing about
IN the Winter Pool at Brighton Beach.
and says Lou to himself, we NAV we'll
imagine:
70, An. there is championship material,
she has an intimate acquaintance with
the water, powerful shoulders and likes
70 SWIM. Well, III see what l can do
with her" Wv
He did. And Miss Boyle attributes
every Jewel IN her swimming crown, or
tne prospective jewels in her prospec-
tive crown, to Lou Handley, who has
done whole lot to bring swimming to
ITS present high standard around these
diggings.
One year from the time Handley took
Miss Boyle under his mentorship she
mad won the national title at fftv
yards, the national plunge for distance
aHd recently by defeating Miss Cali
gan IN the metropolitan eight eighty"
as tney say among the cognoscenti, or
the half-mlle as It is known to the iav-
man. Miss Boyle proved there is no
limit to her contemplated swimming
career, for Miss Galligan, make no mis-
take, IS as fast as ever she was. ONLY
Miss Boyle is faster
Her Progress Rapid
In one year the water nymph from
Sea Gate had mastered not only the
six beat" crawl kick, but she had
worked trudgeon in with it as we'll
one trudgeon stroke to three of the
crawl, making virtually eight foot and
leg strokes TO two with the arms. She
had learned to take the turns in the
tank with such lightning dexteritv
that she gains on them, instead of los
ing time, and she had shown STAN
ma and ganeness under fire that event
TALLY will make her nvincible at all
distances.
1t isn't often that any of US 20 so
far IN our favorite sport in year. IL
We can learn to quit slicing our drives,
make fair stab at a lawford or
pocket the "fifteen" ball with any
degree Of certainty, we are satisfied.