San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-20

the mixed doubles title.
Vincent Richards won the singles
cup in the Palm Beach tournament
and paired with Ralph Baggs, won
the doubles from Pfingst and Backc
and later Richards ana Clare Cassell
defeated l.. Z. Backe and Phyllis
Walsh in mixed doubles.
Miss Molly Thayer of Philadel-
phia won the women's singles tennis
championship of Bermuda, defeating
Miss Gladys Hutchings of Bermuda.
y Vincent Richards won the national
indoor tennis title, defeating Francis
Il. Hunter In Ito final.
William 4. Tildcn won the South
Atlantic championship played at Au-
gusta, Ga.
Golf Championships.
International professional team
Observation-Disclosures Smith and
Bill Mellhorn.
West Const (Florida) open cham
pionship-Johnny Farrell, Quaker
Ridge:
Southern California women's cham
pionship-Miss Edith Cummings.
Texas open championship-Joe
Kirkwood.
East and West championship, play
cd at Bclair Heights. Florida. West
won for first time In five years.
Bellair Women's championship
Miss Glenna Collett.
st. Valentine tournament at Pine
hurst. n. C.--Miss Dorothy Richards
Montecito Golf Club invitation
women's tourney-Miss Marion Hol
Inns. s....-.
North and South Women's cham
pion-Glenna Collett.
North and South open champion
Walter Hagen third time.)
The results in the National A. A.
u. indoor swimming championships
held in Chicago included many bril-
liant natatorinl exploits.
Johnny Weissmuller of the Illinois
A. {. broke his own national A. A
L. record for the 220-yard free style
event, his time being 2 minutes IA 4-5
seconds 1-5 seconds faster than his
former time. He also broke his own
100-yard free style swim record,
splnshing the distance in % 4-5 sec.
onds. His former record was "a sec
onds.
John Farley of the Illinois A. C..
won the 220-yard breast stroke event
in . minutes 30 % seconds, equalling
the worlds record and lettering
Skeletons National A. A. L. record of
2.JS 3-5.
Sybil Bauer in an exhibition swim
bcttcrcd her worlds records for 200
metres back stroke. doing the distance
in 2.56 as compared to her old time
Of 1903 40 and the 220-yard back
stroke. speeding the route in 2.57 1-5
as compared TO her former record of
three minutes flat.
Oliver Horn of the Illinois A. c.
won the 150-yard back stroke in
1.47 %, which, however, did not
equal the record for this event held
by Weissmuller.
Bobbie SHELTON OF the Illinois A. C.,
in an exhibition swim broke the
worlds record for the 200-yard breast
stroke swim. making the distance in
80 3-5. The former record. go %.
was held by Told, an Austrian, since
1911.
Sybil Bauer broke the worlds record
for women in the fifty yard back
stroke. covering the distance in 80 %
seconds. compared with her odd record
of 80 3-5 seconds. Miss Bauer also
broke her own worlds record OF
l .5S 20 for the 150-yard back stroke.
setting nm the new record Of LIS 10.
The Illinois A.. C. relay team won
the 200-vard relay in 1.3S As. new
A. A. Y. record. Harold Kruger of
the Illinois A. c. won the Pentnthlon.
Johnny Weissmuller won the 50-yard
STYLE in "a seconds which is not nm TO
his best.
John Farley also came through with
nm American and worlds record in
the 100-ynrd breast stroke which he
lid in 1.01 IL. The old time, held
Jointly by Farley and SHELTON, was
| 90 3-5.
Then along came Bobbie SHELTON
md broke a Joint worlds record held
BY him and Farley in the 220-yard
,reast stroke. He did the distance in
l.51 As. The old time was 2.52 20.
John Weissmuller won the J0O-yard
rec style swim but broke no record. |