New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
Yale's Mer111en
First Inn Relay:
Balbacln W i'm 8
Afl-stars Force Champions
Near Record; Pollard Is
Beaten i'm Dive at Brighton


Yale Urivarsity's relay swimming
team broke into A. A. U. competition
for the first time yesterday and made.
a success of its debut. The Bulldog
swimmers clashed with the Intereol4
legiate AllStars in the open air pocl Of
brighton Beach Baths and emerged
victorious, coming within four seconds
OF their own worlds record for 200
yards.
Yale was faced by the All-Star team
Composed of Captain Victor Hoist, of
the Penn freshman swimming team
and middha Atlantic sprnt champion;
Paul Lockwood, of the famous Colum-
bla University Ineligible swimmers"
of 1921; Captain Walter. Eberhardt, OF
Columbia, and Philip Genther, of the
U. OF +. freshman, twice holder of the
metropolitan 50-yard championship.
They swami in the order named
With the crack of the gun Leeming
sellilfe, of Brooklyn, swan against
Hoist. The Philadelphia lad stuck to
the Yale ffer and finished with a slight
lead. Lockwood took up the race, but
lost his bearings on the home stretch,
allowing L'udley Pratt, of Yale, to finish
to the gooa by few feet Eberhardt,
of Columbia, took off after David
Gauss, of Yale, and although uncover
ing brilliant speed SWAN of his course,
putting Yale some five yards in the
lead.
Thursten Maintains Lead
Captain Lorrng Thurston, Of Yale,
got off to a splendid start on Genthner,
but the latter fairly flew down the
course on a tangent, but finished some
champions first swim in the Brighton
| pool and lie was thrown off his course
badly on the turn. He swan down the
course on tangeant, but finished some
seven, yards behind the Honolulu lad,
who is captain of the Yale mermen.
The time Tor the race was 1:4t2 2-5 Sec
onds, Yale's world mark is 1913.
| Henry Giebel, of the New York
Athletic Club, 1919 nationai junior 100
yard backstroke champion, showed d
remarkable performance in the 15g-
yard bacEstroke event The younger
| family swan the entire distance un-
paced and came within three seconds
of the worlds record. Young Giebel
! covered the distance in 2:01 2-5 sec
| onds.
The 2OG-yard scratch swim was won
by this same Henry Giebel. Not in the
least disnayed by his hard swim in
| the backstroke event, the Winged Foot
lad went out in front and hung on to a
precious lead from the start. Phil
Dunn, star of the Erasmus Hall High
School swimming team, competing un-
attached, held on to Giebel for a
greater pae of the distance, but in the
last few yards weakened and finished
IN second place. Ray Leo, unattached,
was third.
Victory for Balbach
Louis j. Balbach, of Columbia Uni
versity and the American Olympic
team, defeated John K Pollard, of
Yale, intercollegiate champion, in the
first dual diving competition ever held
IN the metropolitan area Pollard
defeated Baibach by Il narrow margin
in the Intercollegiate champion ships
last March, while the latter was suffer
/ ing from Influenza .Thereforey b l.
bach was slightly moved by a spirit
of revenge yesterday.
The Columbia champions diving
from the ten-foot springboard was
superb, and although the Yale lad dove
well and hard, Balbach ran up an un-
usually large score. The Columbia lad
employed the "front two and a half
with a half twist" to perfection and
enjoyed a sensational reception from
the big crowd
The summaries:
Fancy dive-won by Louis Balbach So
lunlbia. 1912 points John Is. Pollard.
Yale, 1904 points.
2oO-yard swim-won by Henry Gieoel,
New York A. c.; Phil Dunno, unattached
second; Ray Leo, unattached, third. Time,
2:41as.
2oo7shrd relay--won by Yale (Leeming
Jeliffe, Dudley Pratt. David Gauss and
Lorrin Thurston); All Stars (victor Hoist
/ of Pennsylvania Paul Lockwood. OF Co
lumbia; Walter Eherhardt, of Columbia,
and Philip Genthner, Of Pennsylvania) ,
second. Time, 1:422B
15o-ynrd back stroke exhibition Gun
paced) Henry Gebel. New York A. c.
| Time, 2:0I25.