New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Women's Swimming Title
At Stake To-day i'm West
New Record Also Expect
ed in Fifty-Yard Race
at N Neptune Beach

The women's national 50-yard swim
ming championship will be held to-
day at Neptune Beach, Cal, over a
experts seem confident that the Ameri-
can record will go by the board. They
claim that Mrs. Frances Cowells
Schroth, of San Francisco, has been
beating standard time in practice, and
although they concede the possibility
of her losing the race to either Miss
Bessie Rita Ryan, of Philadelphia, or
Miss Dorothy Burns, of Los Angeles,
they believe it will take new figures to
lead her home. Two other entrants
expected by some to be in the running
are Miss Betty Grimes, of indianapolis,
and Miss Leila Dunkum, of Stockton.
The New York A. c. will stage its
annual swimming championships in
the home pool on Wednesday, and the
following titles will be competed for:
Free style, for class A sprinters, hav-
ing beaten one minute at the century,
and class B for those never having
gone so fast in competition; back
stroke and breast stroke, open to ali.
The distance will be 100 yards in every
event.
Mrs. Elizabeth Meehan Williams,
Philadelphia's star distance mermaid,
who came to this city recently to or
ganlze swimming department for the
newly launched Carroll Club for Girls.
has been the means of demonstrating
how keen and general is local interest
IN aquatics among members of the sex
Since the opening of the pool three
weeks ago she has built up classes for
beginners and advanced candidates
hO
for short courses, and fifty more are
already on the waiting list. Mean
while, the first set of competitive
events for members was held during
the week and the feature contests were
won by Miss Marguerite Powers and
Miss Edna Bell, who show the traits of
coming stars.
Honolulu appears to have developed
dangerous rival to the peerless Duke
kahanamoku in John Kelii. young
Kanaka, who is not unknown to fame,
Tor he scored some brilliant victories
while the duke was in this country last
summer. The lad has been displaying
such remarkable speed lately in train
ing that Hawaiians are beginning to
wonder who will come out on top when
the two next try conclusions, and they
await with keen anticipation the open
ing water carnival of the season, to be
held within few days, for both stars
are entered for the 100-yard swim.
The Peoples Palace, Of Jersey City,
has set May II as the date for its
championship swimming meet, at which
Will be featured Metropolitan A. A. u.
title contests for both watcrmen and
maids
THE Swimming Magazine" a monty
periodical edited by Ernest NJ. Smith,
former l00-yard champion Of the Pa
clfc Coast, has just started publica-
ton in San Francisco. As the first
issue announces, its object is to
further the interests of swimming as
a sport, useful and valuable accom-
plshment and health giver.
--latest advices from Australia bring
news of a remarkable feat performed
by Richmond Eve, of Sydney, lad of
sixteen. lie is credited with swimming
440 yards in minutes and SO seconds
IN competition, which is wonderful
time for boy of his age.
The record committee of the National
Collegiate A. A. will not recognize the
intercollegiate 50-yard standard of "a
seconds recently claimed for Clarence
Lane, Of Honolulu, now student of
st: Mary's College, Oakland Cal. De-
talls OF the performance show that the
start was faulty and that only two
time keepers caught the race. The
mark OF 20 seconds set earlier in the
season by Edwin Binney, Of Yale, has
been officially accepted meanwhile.
The announcement recently made
that Mrs. Claire Galligan Finney, of
the Women's S. A., Americas greatest
all-round mermaid, had retired per-
manently from competition may have
been premature. Mrs. Finney is now
at Hermosa Beach, near Los Angeles.
with the ocean ever at hand, and there
Is indication of future probabilities
IN the fact that she has asked to be
notified as soon as it is decided when
and where will be held the try-outs
Tor the team of fair swimmers, which
1t is planned to send to next Years
Olympiad.