New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-08
Ouarter-Mile Swim
Championship Won
By Miss Bleibtrey
World Record-Holder Cap
lures Title Race by Scant
Yard at ridgepOrt Meet
Special Correspondence Of The Tribune


BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Aug Miss
Women's A. c., added to her many
titles that of National A. A. W. out
door 220-yard swimming champion
here to-day.
Competing over rough 110-yard
course in Long Island Sound, off Sea-
side Park, she defeated by scant
yard her clubmate, Miss Charlotte
Boyle, who finished second. eight yards
ahead of Miss Helen Wainwright, of
the same club, in third to place. The
time was 8 minutes Is seconds.
title race and it had to be decided in
heats. The fourth to qualify for the
final was another girl from the Wom-
ems S. A. Miss Gertrude Ederle. She
touched out few feet behind Miss
Wainwright.
Ludy Langer, of the Surf Club, of
Honolulu, won an invitation 440yard
handicap from scratch in the actual
time of 5 minutes AZ 3-5 seconds. He
led home by fifteen yards his closest
opponent, George Batter. Of the New
Haven Harriers, who received an al
lowance of minute Is seconds.
runaway for the Misses Bleibtrey,
Boyle, Ederle and Wainwright, of the
New York Women's S, A. They covered
the course in 6:O1, the fastest time
ever made in the event, and beat by
twenty yards the Misses Mabel Arklie,
Frances Clark Mary McGrory and
Margaret Obertuffer, Of the Philadel-
phia Turngemeinde, who took second,
four yards ahead Of the Women's S. A.
second team.
Miss Elcanore Uhl. OF the Meadow
brook Club Of philadelphia member
Of the Olympic team, captured q 100
yard handicap swim from the 9-second
mark in I'LL 1-5, and Miss Grace
Kemplc, developed by the New York
Women's s. A. won the 50-yard cham
pionship of Bridgeport in 0:33.
The summaries follow:
EVENTS FOR WOMEN
22o-yard swim (senior National A. A. y
cham ponshiD)-W by Miss Ethelda
Ileibtr"y. New York ". s A.. Miss Char
~. third. Time, s:o5 is.
9o,y"rd swim ,,GhampionshIp OF Bridge d
Dloomer. third Time. o:3a
l00-yard swim (handlcap) Won by Mis-.
Eleanor Uni. Meadowbrook Club. Philadel
pria CO scc) Miss Doris O'Mara. bridge
port unattac chez az seq SECOND Miss LiI
toward relay swim--yTon by New York
Women's 5. A. first team Misses Etheid
Bleibtrey. Charlotte Boyle, Gertrude Ederle
Helen WainwrighD Philadc. Dha Turnge
meinde Misses Mabel Arklie Mary Me
Grory. Frances Clark Margaret Obertoffcr)
second: New York w. s. A. second team
(Niisscs Aileen R!ggin. Helen Meany. Flor
encc Briscoe Alice Lord) third. Time
OF.
EVENTS FOR MEN
44o-yard invitation swim Cha nd lea ply
Won BY Ludy LANCER. lfui Nalu, Honoiul,
tscratch); George Batter. New Haven Uar
riers G5 seq second: II. Prytherach
| bridgeport GO sec.), third. Time. AS )
Three mile swim Competent Stat,
cham pionship) Won by Isidor Battco
New Haven. Harry Quinn, Compo Life
guards, second Ruben Kownatzsky. U. S
V. l. -. Seaside third. Time. l:4a.22
100-yard swim (handicap)-Won by Har
Old Kruger. Iiealani club. Honolul,
tscratch. John Anderson, Bridgeport l.
S. :. {. 60 SEED. second. Alfred Brown
Flushing High School (scratchl, third
Time. 0:59.
loo-yArd swim championship OF bridge
porD-Won by II. Mcdonnell. Clifford Fox
second; George Schiakln. third. Time
rs 1-5.