New Britain herald., 1924-05-10
HERMAN HUNT WILL
 MANAGE blG POOL
Famous Swimmer in Charge at Capitol Park This Year

i Herman Hunt of New Haven, world famous swimmer, trainer of several winning swimming teams and himself the holder of number of long distance and endurance records, has been engaged by Dr. De Waltoff, ! owner, as the manager of the Capitol Park swimming pool for this season and among his other plans are those | for arranging for schoolboy and schoolgirl meets at the pool. In ad- | dition, Mir. Hunt offers a complete course of swimming instruction free to any New Britain high school boy or girl who cannot swim. Mir. Hunt will be assisted at the pool by Miss Dottie Taylor, former local girl and | herself swimmer with an onriable | reputation. Hunts unbeatsn girls team of Catpain Viola Smith, Ruth Craddock and Emily Cieszynski, the latter of this city, also will assist in forming girls team at the pool.
 Mir. Hunt announces that he will donate the pool gratis to any high school team that desires to hold a swimming meet there.
 Plans under way call for making the Hartford pool the largest in the world. capable of accommodating B. 900 bathers with 5o.o00 square feet of sand beach. A straightaway swim ming course of 50 yards for swim ming contests also is planned and a grandstand will be built to accommo- date 1000, while hand ball courts and running track also will be add cd.
 It Is planned to open this pool on Memorial Day.
 Herman Hunts reputation as a swimmer is, well known and he has been in the iimelight for the past IS years.
 He is often referred to by Ripley. in the famous believe it or not coll umn Of New York sport writer, as having performed feat that has never been duplicated, that was swim- ming at the age of i5 years for 26 consecutive hours distance ,of c2 miles against the tide of the Atlantic ocean at Porto Rico. Just year ago, under the auspices Of the 'Selznick Weekly News reel, he performed an- other stunt that was though by ey- perts to be impossible; that of &C., tually towing in the waters on Man haitian Beach, N. r., against the tide. i2 regulation rowboats filled with 55 persons, an estimated weight of ill., 500 pounds, breaking all records in the world for towing. formerly held by 10th and Sullivan, two of the three Americans who were to go 10 England to swim the channel. Hunt was the third man 10 go, but met with a misfortune just few days be- fore sailing and was unable 10 leave. No doubt many of the readers will re- call having seen these pictures of Hunt performing this stunt as they were shown in almost every theater in the United States.
 The most recent feat performed by Hunt was his swim last year across the widest part of the Long Island Sound, from Wading River. Long Is- land 10 Momauguin. distance Of 22 mile. which hc, accompanied by Miss Dorothy Taylor champion 1T-year-old long distance swimmer, accomplished in the remarkable short time Of 1i hours and 2S minutes.
 Hunt has developed some remark able boys and girls champion swim- ming teams and has plans in the works for the summer months that should bring Hartford to the fore with well developed swimming teams Besides this he plans to have some of the state championship meets under the auspices or the A. A. L. in which boys and girls teams from Green wich. Stamford. New London. New Haven. Bridgeport. Myrtle Beach. So Norwalk and Hartford will rartici- pate.