The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-28
Style, Not Men, Reason For Recent Records,
 Says Joe Buddy
MORE SPECIALIZED, TOO
Charlie Daniels Born 10
 Years Too Early, Says Man

for the fact that Johnny Weissmuller, Duke Kahanamoku, Norman Ross and present day swimmers in general are travelling yards faster than the experts of 10 and 20 years ago, ac- cording to Joe Buddy, perhaps the greatest of all water polo players.
 Weissmuller wiped out some tWen- ty or thirty records during the l922 campaign and is hailed as the super being of the tanks and open-water stretches, but, in Ruddy's opinion, Charlie Daniels was born ten years too soon. Given the conditions that now favor Weissmuller, it is Ruddy's belief that Daniels would break rec ord for records with the Illinois A. c. marvel.
 Inferior Stroke
 Daniels was creating worlds rec ords with stroke far inferior to the six-beat double-trugeon that Welss- muller uses today" quoth Joseph who has seen them all come and go since the pioneer days of the CaVlll brothers right on down to the pres ent generation
 "Another thing" he continued, you can judge for yourself by the 1act that Weissmuller often beats his field by mere fifths of seconds, whereas Daneils disposed of Beaurepalre, or Australia, then the worlds recoro holder. by seven yards in 100 metres
 Ry comparison, Buddy intimates' Daniels's supremacy over the olu school was so much greater as to indicate that strokes and not men make modern records possible.
 "In what other branch of sport has the record been reduced from no or the hundred to 52 4-5 sec onds?" Buddy inquires plauslDly enough. "The sprinters on the en- der path were just as good twenty years ago as they are now.'
 Are Specialists Now
 The oratorical Buddy has fur ther point to make, to wit: Ihat nresent-day swimmers are specialists in water sports alone, while those of twenty years ago were all-around athletes. Daniels, he declared, ran a cracking quarter and a half mile for Dwight School. Today a cham nion swimmer would not think Of running, for it develops certain mus cles in a way that is detrimental to swimming.
 "Weissmuller, Ross and the Duke never did anything but swim,' he declared. "They gave their muscles A chance to develop for swimming only. That is why women swimmers have been making such rapid strides. The coaches get them before their muscles have been used for any other strenuous sport"
 In this, he asserted, American coaches are showing far greater en- terprise than those of any other country, dIlu do d ICou1I 'io onA'o" States stands supreme among all nations in swimming.
 "We wrested the supremacy from Australia with the advent of such great swimmers as Daniels, Goodwin, vollmer, McGillivray, Hebner and Ross," he stated.
 Better Stroke
 "We took their Australian crawl stroke and improved it until today we lead in the world, with six beat double and single trudgeon crawl, our own creation. There is no country in the world that threat ems to wrest the supremacy from us Our women swimmers stand out as prominently as our men do internationally
 "For while the swimmers led by Duke Kahanamoku, from the Ha- waiian Islands, looked as if they might be dangerous rivals of ours. But" went on Buddy, "they play too much in the water. Surf riding, equaplaning, etc., take them away from training. They delight in play ing under the warm tropical sun. The Duke, the Kealoha brothers, Harris and Cunha were as fine set of swimmers as the world has ever seen, but their love of playing their spare moments away robbed them of being still greater against the pick of the foremost competitive swim mers of the world"