The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-29
WATER
SPORTS and LIFE
SAVING CORPS
Contests and Examinations for 1922.
Supervision of Lakeland commun-
ity Welfare League, Lake.
land, Florida

its boys and girls and also to It's men
and women Indulgence in sport that
furnishes both clean, wholesome recre-
alton and physical upbuilding.
What is more appropriate than util-
izing these natural advantages in our
boys and girls work, and laying out
definite constructive program
through which they will not only en-
joy water sports as an amusement but
also through it developing them as
swimmers and life-savers under COM
petent instruction so they may become
fully capable of caring both for them
selves and others under all conditions
when in the water.
Not only do water sports appeal to
the boy and girl but they also appeal
to men and women for the person.
al recreation they themselves may re-
ccive. And as the human interest of
men and women must enter largely
into the success OF any plan of work
among the boys and the girls, so in
this program is it happily possible to
combine the interest of the men and
participation in the water sports them
selves with our boys and girls.
A complete program has been
mapped out and is given here for this
seasons water activities. 1t will EN-
brace all ages from the youngest to
the oldest. To enter the contests and
sports it is only necessary to fill out
an entry blank and mail it or leave it
in the office of the Welfare League up
stairs in the Chamber of Commerce
building. You should do this at once.
The first contests will take place
the last week in May-NIay 23-36th.
Thereafter contests and examinations
will take place during the last week
of each month in June, July, August
and September thereby giving an OPP
portunity for every one to become
more and more proficient and qualify
for higher degrees in swimming dur
ing the season.
The season will open with four
day program May 23rd to 26th when d.
j. Yates, as expert swimming instruc-
tor and director in Life Saving for the
National Red Cross, will come to Lake
land Instructions in swimming, div
ing, life saving, and water first aid"
will be given, ending with contests
and examinations for qualifying in the
various grades. A local board of eX-
amners will be appointed at that time
who will pass upon all trials and con-
thnm-
selves pass certain tests to qualify.
Referees, judges and time-keepers will
be selected from the men and women
interested in water sports.
CIassifications
(a) Junior division consisting Of
boys and girls who will not have
passed their 10th birthday on July
LIST, 1922 Standards of proficiency in
order to qualify are as follows:
!. First Grade Beginners: Must be
able to swim so feet using any stroke
Sthey know.
2. Second Grade Swimmers: Must
be able to swim 100 yards using two
or more strokes.
Must dive properly from spring
board take off.
Must swim on back so feet any
stroke.
Must retrieve object thrown into
water at reasonable depth.
3. Honor Grade Life Savers: Must
pass above tests for the second grade
swimmers and must be able to carry
fu.A Of
yards by each of the following meth
DDS.
AHEAD carry.
b-Cross chest carry.
c-Two point carry.
d-Tired swimmers carry.
Must be able to illustrate in the
water the methods of releasing them
selves from people in peril of drown
ing:
Wrist hold.
Front neck hold.
Back neck hold.
Must be able to make surface dive
and recovery, and demonstrate both
the Schaefer and Sylvester methods
of performing artificial respiration, al
though the Schaefer method is the
one preferred.
OBJ Auxiliary Corps division, con-
sisting of boys who will have on July
LIST, 1922, passed their 18th birthday
and not passed their eighteenth birth
day.
1.-The examinations and require.
ments to qualify in the Auxiliary
Corps are the same as for the (c)
Senior Mems Life Saving Corps"
Boys between sixteen and eighteen
who qualify in the Auxiliary Corps
automatically qualify for the Senior
Life Saving Corps" when they reach
their eighteenth birthday
(c) Mems Life Saving Corps" con-
sisting of men and boys who on July
LIST. 1922, will have passed their eight
zenith birthdays must be of good char
acter pass physical tests, and meet
the following examination:
Carrying a person of own weight
$40 feet by four carries:
Points
Head carry. 60 feet........-............. 6
Gross chest carry, go feet ........ 6