The sun., 1919-09-02
FAIR NEW WORKERS
LOWER SWIM MARK
Set 400 Yard Relay Record at
1859 in Feature Of Bridge
port Meeting.
spectal Dispatch to TIE suS

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Sept. 1.-Represen.
tatives of the New York Women's Swim
ming Association hung up a new Amer.
lean women's 400 yard relay record
here to-day. They beat a team of Phila-
delphians in an intercity match relay
in the record time of4 minutes SO sec
onds. The event was the feature OF
the annual water carnival OF the Life
Saving Corps of Bridgeport, at Sea Side
Park.
In hanging UP the new figures the New
York city team, composed of Miss Alice
Lord, Miss Leslie .Bunyan, Miss Ethelda
Bleibtrey and Miss Charlotte Boyle,
clipped thirteen seconds from the mark
Of 5 minutes seconds made last year
by a Philadelphia team! The Philadel-
phians were clicked In minutes 10 4-5
seconds, seven seconds slower than the
record.
Miss Boyle, who swan last for the
New York women, was caught by the
checkers in the good time of l minute
lbs seconds for her 100 yards. This
performance was only two-fifths of
second slower than the American out
door record. The girls from New York
won the event easily. leading from start
to finish and had a twenty yard advan-
tage at the end. The Philadelphia team
was made up of Miss Frances Clark,
Miss Elizabeth Becker, Miss Florence
Mclaughlin and Miss Eleanor Uhl.
The 500 yard handicap. in which Miss
BOYLE allowed Miss Uhl of the Meadow
brook Club "a second start, was
won by the Philadelphia girl. The
Quaker girl won only because the
Brooklyn girl mistook the finish. AT
the 400 yard mark, when Miss Boyle
was near Miss Uhl, the New Yorker
thought the race over and climbed to the
float before any of the officials had
time to check her. In the meantime the
Philadelphia girl increased her lead to
three yards. Miss Boyle won the 100
yard handicap from scratch in 1 minute
IL as seconds
The 100 yard handicap for men went
to Harold Kruger of the Oakland A. c.
of California. John Hincks OF Yale
who was victorious in the recent INFER
allied swimming championships, finished
second. The summaries:
50 Yard Swim, Championship of Bridge
port-won by Miss Anna Baum; Miss
Grace Kemple. second; Miss Margaret De-
muth, third. Time. az seconds
EVENTS FOR MEN.
100 Yard Swim, scratch-won by Harold
Kruger. Oakland A. c. tCal;); John
Kane. Walnut A. c., Bridgeport, third,
Time, SO rs seconds.
90 Yard Dribbling Race-Won by John
Fox, V. L. S. c., Bridgeport; John Far
rell. V. L. S. c.. second: Jeremiah MUIR
ply v. l.. S. c., third. Time, 45 l-5
seconds.
50 Yard Double Oar swim-won by ].
Ma cdonald, /. Kane, Walnut A. c.. Bridge
port: ]. Fox, ]. Murphy, v. l.. S. c..
second. Time, So 2-5 seconds.
200 Yard Relay Swim-won by Walnut
A. C. (Kane, Osborn. II. and ]. Mac
V. l.. s. c. (Baum, Fox, Murphy.
FarrelD. second Time, 2:13 AS.
Mile Swlm-Won by Walter Patterson.
v l.. S. c., Bridgeport. Time, 1:47:56.
EVENTS FOR WOMEN
400 Yard Relay Swim--won by New
York women's s. A. Misses Alice Lord
Leslie Bunyan, Ethelda Bleibtrey, Char
lotte Boyle); Philadelphia team Misses
Frances Clark. Elizabeth Becker. Turse-
Florence Mclaughlin, Eleanor
Uhl, Meadow brook, second. Time, 1859.
100 Yard Swim, Handicap-Won by Miss
Charlotte Boyle. N. Y. w. S. A. iscratch)
Miss Elizabeth Becker. Philadelphia Tur-
gemeinde t65), second; Miss Frances
Clark, Philadelphia TGrgemeinde G5).
third. Time, l:1i 3-5.
500 Yard Swim, Handicap-Won by Miss
Eleanor Uhl, Meadowbrook Club, Phila-
delphia (2D; Miss Charlotte Boyle, n. Y.
w. s. A. (scratch), second. Time, 1885.
so Yard Double Oar Swim, Scratch
Won by Misses Ethelda, Bleibtrey, Char
lotte Boyle, n. Y. W. S. A: Misses Eliza
beth Becker. Frances Clark, Philadelphia
second; Misses Leslie Bun
van, Alice Lord n. Y. W. s. A., third.
Time az as seconds