Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-01-03
.DARDO STARS IN
UNLIMITED CLASS
Capacity Crowd Sees SWIM
ming Championship at Y. M.
c. A. Yesterday.

A capacity crowd turned out yes
tcrday afternoon to witness the Sec |
ond annual swimming championships |
conducted at the local Y. M. G. a.
There were IL large number Of en-
tries and all events were hotly con
tested. The diving In the unlimited
class was an exceptionally interest
Ing event and was one OF the outstand-
ing features of the afternoons pro-
gram. Ed Anderson, winner OF the
diving championship last year, did
some beautiful work and bid fair To
retain Same but Boyer and Pedrick
managed to win over him by the clos
est kind of n margin. Anderson just
returned from the South few days
ago and did remarkably well for the
short time he had TO practice.
Bardo won the 40 and 100 yard
swiua In handy fashion negotiating
tho short distance I'm tho fast time OF
| twenty and two flfths seconds t20.2-5)
and the century distance In one min
ute and six seconds 16). He also
made new record for the 40 yard
back stroke swim negotiating that
distance In twenty-seven seconds CID.
Franklin Alnsworth competing In
tho so pound class was the high point
scorer OF the day, and won the low
ing cup that was put up for tho boy
or man scoring the highest number
or points. Tom Bush and Franklin
Palmer of the las pound class. Sydney
Trott of the so pound class and Jack
Boggs OF the 110 pound class and ED.
Bardo OF the unlimited class pressed
Answorth hard. Ainsworth won
three FIRST places and two seconds
scoring n total OF 2i points.
Wallace Pedrick won the feet first
plunge by plunging tho length of the
pool. This wac the FIRST time this feat
was ever accomplished in the local
tank.
The results OF tho various events ar'
so-PoUND CLASS.
2o-yard swim First, Aihsworth: sec
ond. Trott: third, i. Warner. r lme, u 2
aO-yard swim First. Ainsworth sec
ond. Trott. Time, 29.4
Back stroke, 20 yards First. Trott: sec
ond. Alnsworth. Time. i24.
Plunge--First. Trott; second, Answorth
third warner. Distance. rs feet.
| Fancy diving First. Aiusworth second.
Trott; third, !. Warner.
1t0-POUND CLASS
| a0-yard swim---First. Bosgs 4 Warner
and Herlihy tied for second place. Time.
2S3
oo-yard swim First Boggs second.
| Warner
Back stroke 20 yards First. Warner:
second, Herlihy. third. Bogps Distance,
| is feet
| Plunge First. BogRs; second. Warner
| Distance, "a feet 2 inches
Fancy dlving-First. Herlihy. second
Bosgs
l25-pOUND CLASS.
ao-yard swim-First. Carpenter: second
Palmer Time, 252
dO-yard swim First. Bush: second
Palmer: third. Carpenter Time. a.
Back stroke. 40 yards--First. Bush: sec
ond, Palmer; third, Carpenter. Time. 81.
Plunge First. Bush: second. Palmer.
Distance, 40 feet: time, %
Fancy diving-First. Bush: second,
Palmer.
UNLIMITED CLASS.
40-yard swim--First. Bardo. second
Boyer. third. Pedrlck Time, 20 2.
l0O-yard swim--First. Bardo; second
Pedrick. Time, 06
Back stroke--First, Bardo: second Ped
rick third. Boyer. Time. 27.
Plunge, - First, Boyer; second. Bardo
third Pedrick.
Fancy diving-Flrst. Boyer; second. Ped
rick third. Anderson.
OPEN EVENTS,
} Plunge-Feet frst-First, Pedrick sec
) ond, Boyer; third, BardoI Distance