The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-15
Competed Against Teams Rep
resenting Oldest and Strong
est Clubs i'm the South.

ter Park, Edgewood, Tampa and New
Orleans, taking fourth place in the
greatest aquatic meet ever staged in
Dixie. Eighty contestants represent
ing the oldest and strongest organized
clubs in the south. gathered at East
Lake, Birmingham, to compete for
laurels at the meet.
Atlanta took first place, Dallas TAX
ing second place and Birmingham fin
ished third.
All three of these organizations have
been developing their swimming teams
for many months, some of them having
been organized for a number of years.
Coach Vance Veith of Dallas, is con-
sidered one of the best coaches in the
country, having developed Jarvis TO
the point Of approaching world records.
Jarvis, individual star of the S.. A.
A. u, will swim for the Los Angeles
Athletic club next year, and is ex-
pected to press Norman Ross to new
worlds record, or probably will es-
tablish some himself.
Atlanta's team, the most evenly
matched team at the meet, was
coached by william Logan, including
the ladies events. With the exception
of Spear, none of his men starred, but
showed such wonderful team work
that it would have taken a mighty
fast aggregation to beat them.
Birmingham has been coached for
the past several years by Mr.. Hutsell,
who has been working constantly and
diligently to develop a championship
team. He has been successful to the
extent of his team being favored in
the betting for first place.
Florida's state teams were fast ag-
gregations and Tampa looks good for
winner in few years. Mr.. Kent,
Tampa coach, has two coming worlds
champions in Young Geier and Ca
bode.
Friday, the first day, dawned clear
and fine, but about an hour before
starting time a slow drizzling rain set
in, which continued. throughout the
afternoon. The spectators at the
meet, however, were intensely inter-
ested, standing in the rain hour after
| hour to view the progress of the meet.
The first event was a 50-yard Jun
Tor swim. There were thirteen entries
for this event.
Rex Wilson, Pensacola A. A., won
the first heat of the 50-yard event,
covering the semi-century in q 3-5
seconds.
The second heat went to Moves, A.
A. c., in % 3-5 seconds. When the
finals We're called, seven men had
qualified and Wilson looked a winner.
However, in the drawings, Wilson was
placed to the left Of Noyes and Allen,
his two most dangerous opponents.
Wilson was unable to watch the prog
ress of his opponents and under the
belief that he was leading the Atlanta
swimmers, did not extend himself.
Noyes and Allen took first and second
places respectively, in % s-5 seconds,
with Wilson a few short inches behind.
Not over nine inches separated the
first man to cross the line from the
man in fifth place at the finish.
The second event called was the 100
yard Junior dash. Francis represented
Pensacola in this event, and led the
race to the eighty-yard line, where he
blew up" and was distanced by three
Atlanta swimmers. Francis has been
making the 100-yard event in SO Sec
onds flat, while the heat sold at 1908.
plainly indicating that Francis was
still feeling the effects of a spell of
sickness he had undergone on the day
of his arrival in Birmingham.
The SS0-yard was covered in 1902.
IN which Norelli of the P. A. A. took
fifth place.
All teams were strongly represented
in the junior diving event. out Of
the % contestants, Cluthe took an easy
third, being defeated for second place
by only two-tenths of point. Mem
bers of the S. A. A. U. were represent
ed as follows:
Birmingham: ]. McDouga1l, R. Mer-
rift, G. Dye, B. Hill, B. Chisholm, and
Levy.
Dallas: E. r. Spencer and H. Grove.
Montgomery: G. Knave, G. WALES,
r. Brewton and E. Howe.
Edgewood: A. Joffer, J. McAdams
and A Hunter.
Tampa: Cavode and Hobbs.
Atlanta: D. Terrell, C. C. Spear,
and E. f. Hatcher.
Gillie Chisholm, B. A. c., scored
1924 points; Willis. NJ. S. c., 1858;
Cluthe 1855; Levy, B. A. C. 1915, and
Cavode. Tampa 1884 points. Consid-
ering that Cluthe has not had the use
of standard A. A. U. board, he did
remarkably well. Quoting the Bir-
mingham News: "Cluthe, Pensacola,
was an easy third. He executed some
very clever and difficult dives, espe-
cially somersaults from a Flying
Dutchman' and forward somersaults
from backward springs"
Following the diving. the most keen
~ contested event of the day was
calIed-the 440-yard relay. In this
event, picked teams from six states
responded to the starters gun. Cluthe,
for Pensacola, responded to the gun
and swan the first 10 yards. In spite
of having just finished the diving,
Cluthe stuck TO the leaders of the
other teams up to the rs yard mark,
when the pace began to tell on his
endurance. At the 10 yard mark,
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