The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-28
SWIMMING STARS GATHERED FOR BIG MEET AT EAST LAKE
 THIS AFTERNOON } O'CLOCK
Southeastern Championship Meet Will Be Contested By
 Many Crack Aquatic Teams

auspices of the Birmingham Athletic club over the East Lake course will get under way Saturday afternoon at o'clock. Approximately 40 reg istered entries had been turned in when the entries closed Friday night which number excludes some 20 or 25 boys who are not required to reg ster and whose entry blanks will be received up to 2 o'clock Saturday aft ernoon.
 The entries include a good repre- sentation from the feminine sex and some of the hottest battles will be Waged in the girls events. The com petition is the girls dashes will con centrate around Miss Virginia Ash of Atlanta, holder of the southern 50 yard dash title, who will have as competitors Miss Ethel Getman, Miss Florence Yates and Miss Clara Eh1- bert of the East Lake Aquatic club. Miss Virginia Staff of Camp Walton, Fla,. and several other of Dixie's fleetest girl swimmers. For the Magic City the East Lake girls are expected to put up the greatest bat tie to bring the title to Birmingham. Misses Getman and Yates are both speedy swimmers, who have made good shoWings in previous meets and Miss Ehlbert has been showing up we'll in practice.
 The East Lakes club teams in the mems events will be the largest and strongest of the local clubs. Many experienced swimmers are included in their list, while there are also many fast youngsters who will make their first run Saturday. Ava Allen, captain of the team, is star swim mer, who has competed in many swims. He won second place in the southern meet last year. J. M. and Ferdy Levy are crack swimmers who have shown much speed in previous competition and are expected to show up well Saturday Ferdy Levy also won a second place in the southern meet. He is a distance swimmer. Bob Getman, formerly with the canal zone swimmers, will swim in the 50 yard breast stroke competition and on the relay team. Francis Levy will swim the dashes and enter the are; Cramer Links, Harris Braumer, Allen Moore, Dewey Byrd and Rubel Moore.
 The B. A. c. will send in a strong team to swim under the Blue B." Henry Beatty, fleet-footed athlete, is expected to make a good showing. The McDeugal brothers, Wylie and John, are also good swimmers. Gay Travis, one of the clubs best swim mers, will not be able to compete on account of an injured hand. Ira Sellers and Tom Anderson will also swim for the B. 4. C. The Athletic clubs team is young but fast and should put up a good fight.
 Outside competition in the meet will come mainly from Atlanta un- less q dark horse comes on the scene. The Atlanta club won team honors at the southern meet list ; ear and have many individual honors scattered among it's swimmers. The battle for team honors as well as individual honors will center around the Cracker team and the leading To- cal teams. It win be another Bir- mingham- Atlanta battle. The At lanta entries are; Edward Hatcher, Thornton Cooper, William Moves, J. T. Mollman, r. s. Schoenuck and Will liam Murray.
 Gillie Chisholm, former B. A. c. star and southern champion diver, is at present living in Atlanta and will compete in the meet. He is crack swimmer and will be in the front ranks when the cord is touched.
 The Cascade Plunge will send in 8 swimming star in Howard McCann to represent it. McCann was for merly a star swimmer at the Roman shoWings in Cuba last year and is a good diver.
 Pensacola will send three crack swimmers. Rufus Brewton Of Bay view Park will be one of the lead ing competitors in the diving and 50-yard dash. He will enter the class under 100 pounds. Eugene Forsyth will swim the 50-Yard dash and John Mosely will enter the 50, 100 and 220- yard dashes.
 In addition to Miss Virginia Staff, ro ra1 l. send Glen. Davis, a crack dash swim mer
 The Boys club will enter a strong team in the boys events. Their en- tries include: Otis shelton, Robert Georges, Jack Smith, Dudley Keller, Howell Spradlin, Buster SheltL n, Malcolm Laney, Howard Rives and Russian Bradley
 The B, A. C. will enter three swim mers in the boys events, Billie Gray, Henry Bennett and Walter Coston.
 Dave Evans will have charge of the boys events and registration in this department will not close until ? o'clock Saturday afternoon, due to the fact that the boys do not have to register under A. A. U. rules.
 Geld, silver and bronze medals will be awarded for first, second and third places. The members of the winning relay team will be presented with silver medals.
 Al A. Doonan, head of the Atlanta Athletic club, has been obtained to referee. Bill Leighton of the Bir- scorer while F A. Culley is clerk of the course. c. r. Orr is to serve as chief timer with C. McEachin and Ray Davis as assistants. Hill Fer guson, McLin Carter and Harry Strong are to act as finish judges. A. A, Doonan, c. w. Streit, Jr., and Riall are tC judge all diving events. Streit is to be starter in all events
 Eighteen events have been listed. although some of these are prelimi- nary affairs. The order of events follows:
 order of Events.
 l. Boys 50-yard dash 6 heats).
 ?. Senior 10O-yard dash (S heats).
 3. Junior 1oO-yard dash G heats).
 Final boys 50-yard dash.
 5. Final senior 1oo-yard dash.
 g. Final junior 100-yard dash.
 '. Senior 50-yard dash @ heats).
 s. Girls 50-yard dash final.
 9. Senior 100-yard breast stroke.
 10. SeniLr 50-yard final.
 H. Girls 100-yard dash; final
 12. Senior 220-yard swim 6 heats).
 13. Boys diving.
 II. Final senior 220-yard dash.
 Is. Senior SS0 final.
 16 Girls diving.
 17. Diving.
 IS. One-mile relay
 Al Doonan, who will referee the events, is one of the most active sportsmen in the south. He is vice president of the Southeastern A. A. U., and was one of the organizers of it. He is chairman of the athletic committee at the Atlanta Athletic club and is also chairman of the committee in charge of the intercol- legiate basketball tournaments held in Atlanta annually.
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