The New York herald., 1922-12-17
DOUBLE SWIM TIE
AMONG SCHOOLBOYS
Stuyvesant and Erasmus Hall
Natators Record Nine Vie
tories During Season.

The annual tournament Tor the SWIM
ming championship of the Public Schools
Athletic League ended in double tie
for the awards in the pool of Columbia
University yesterday afternoon. Stuy-
vesant and Erasmus Hall swimmers
| were left on even terms for first place,
each with nine victories in ten dual
meets: Townsend Harris Hall and
Evander Childs came next. with eight
! wins apiece, concluding the series in a
dead heat for third.
In order to split these ties the four
schools were engaged in two meets at
the New York A. c. Wednesday evening,
the leaders lighting it out for the title J
the other two for third place.
Yesterdays competition was featured
by the most stirring contest of the entire
season. Duke Hastings of Manual
Training and Harry Lewis of Erasmus
Hall, league record holder at 220 yards.
tried conclusions at this distance. 1t
was neck to neck duel from start to
finish, and Hastings Just managed to
defeat his rival by an eyelash. Both
beat the former record of "a. held by
Lewis. Hastings's new mark was 1882.
Another record which went by the
board was that for so yard back stroke
swimming. Alfred Brown OF Flushing
lowered his own league standard from
0:33 4-5 to 0:33 3-5.
The best contested engagement of the
| afternoon was between Commerce and
DE Witt Clinton. Not until the last event
| was 1t settled. Commerce earned the
| decision by 2s to 25.
| In the other matches on the card
scores were one sided. Townsend Har-
| rs outpointed George Washington, 33
to 20; Flushing defeated Norris, 80 to
IA; Erasmus Hall downed Manual
Training. 40 to 13; Evender Childs
smothered Boys School under As to
| tally. Stuyvesant had drawn the weekly
bye and did not take part.
| 1t was announced at the carnival that
| an official mistake was made in the
score of the Flushing VS.. De Witt Clinton
meet of December 8. The latter was
declared the victor by error. Later 1t
was ascertained that Flushing had won.
The summaries:
ERASMUS HALL, 10; MANUAL TRAIN
ING. 13.
80 YARD SWIM-Won by-4Arnoid. Manual
Training; Mayors. Erasmus Hall, second;
Gilmore, Erasmus Hall. third. Time.
100 YARD swIM-won by Cummings. Eras-
mus Hall; Ballantyne. Erasmus Hall, sec
oond; Potemkin. Manual Training. third.
800 YARD swTM-won by Hastings, Manual
Training, Lewis, Erasmus Hall, second;
! SC YARD BACK sTRoKE swIM--won by
Mellon. Erasmus Hall; Gibson, Erasmus
Hall. second. Fried, Manual Training.
200 YARD RELAY SWIM-Won by Erasmus
Hall (Ifoop. Worts, Lord. Patten); Manual
Training (Menke, Van Aalst, Rourke,
FANCY DIvING-Won by Smith. Erasmus
Hall, 46 points; Krissel, Erasmus Hall, 4t
! points, second: Barra. Manual Training, 40
! points, third.
FLUSHING. 80: MORRIS. II.
90 YARD swIM-won by Young, Flushing;
Nash, Flushing, second; Achilles. Morris.
third. Time. OBS SO.
| 100 YARD SWIM-Won by Grohe, Morris: :
Butler, Flushing, second: Nelson, Flushing,
third. Time. | :04 40.
900 YARD swIM--won by skripback Flush
E Fashns third Hrr Tme sss'sq ss s5
80 YARD BACK STROKE swIM-won by
Brown, Flushing. Butler. Flushing. second;
200 YARD RELAY swIM-won by Flushing
(Spirak Hebei, Wright, Henderson, swim
over: Time, 5s 80 t.,,
43 points; Yockel. Morris. s5 points. sec
ond; Glsksraan, Morris, "a points, third.
COMMERCE. ~; DE WITT CLINTON, N 20.
Hyman. De Witt Clinton: second: Des-
! more. Commerce, third. Time, 20 seconds.
100 YARD SWIMTWon y, r,,t. by I,a Hersche Com Com.
Alderman. DE Witt Clinton, third Time.
/ minute IL seconds
2pO YARD SwIM-won by Hanrette Com
merce; Epifania, Commerce, second; Stew
art. De Witt Clinton. third Time, min
utes so 2-5 seconds.
90 YARD BACK STROKE swIM--won by
Mare. COMMERCE: bowling. De witt Clin-
ton, second: McGuirk. De Witt Clinton.
third Time, % As seconds
200 YARD RELAY SWIM-Won by De Witt
Clinton Meyer. Conboy. Waterman, Weiss
mani: Commerce (Anner Anderson
Atheneos, Glicklish). second. Time. min
| FANCY DIVING - Won by Koennecke. De
Witt Clinton, 81 points: .spengler. Com
merce. q points, second; Nicholson Com
merce. Al points, third.
EvANDER cHILDs, As: BOYS. b.
30 YARD swIM-won by Mcdonald. Evan
der Childs; Bowden. Evander Childs. sec
ond Dinerman. Boys. third. Time. 20
100 YARD swrM-won by sundem, Evander
| Childs; Eaton, Evander Childs, second ;
Cohen. Boys. third. Time. minute 10
800 YARD swINr-won by Mayell. Erasmus
/ Hall: Farrar, Erasmus Hall, second; /;
Knorr. Boys. third. Time. minutes so
80 YARD BACK STROKE swIM-won by
| Long Evander Childs: Bretweiser Fras-
mus Hail. second; Judge, Boys, third. Time.
900 SV yARD i fs'PT9I RELAY swIM-won by Evander
/ ChIIds (Ruffncr. KHstner, Bleir, Brown I;
swim over, Time. minutes.
/ FANCY DIVING -- Won by forgcnburg.
Evander Childs, 80 points; Wilson. Evan
der childs, ~ points, second; Schwartz
| Boys. ~ points, third.
TOWNSEND HARRIS. sS; GEORGE
WASHINGTON, 20.
Townsend Harris. az. Geo. Washington 90
| so YARD SwIM-Wcn by Merkley, Wash
ineton; Landau. Townsend Harris, second;
! Josephs, Townsend Harris. third. Time,
100 YARD swIM--won by Young. Townsend
| Harris: Whtslaw, Washington, second; /;
Mock, Townsend Harris. third. Time,
| 1:l2 SO.
200 YARD swrM-won by KIinger. Town
send HARRIS Coil. Washington. second:
Steiner, Townsend Harris. third. Time,
so YARD BACK STROKE swrM-won by
| Cretsch. Townsend Harris: Baker Wash
irgton second: Knppes, Townsend Harris,
third Time. 0:3G IL.
| coo YARD RELAY sWTM-won by Town
send Harris (Coe. Meisel. Davidson. Bevis) .
/ Towisaws), second Time. 55 20.
/ FANCY D1v1NC--won by Buckbce. WASH
ington ~ points. Chester. Townsend Ifar-
ris. AZ points. second; Kirby. Washington.
Al points. third.
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