Arizona state miner. [volume] (Wickenburg, Ariz.) 1919-1927, 1927-04-09
EXPECT 100000
WILL VISIT POOL.
At TEMPE BEACH
Civic Club Members Confident Rec
ords for Attendance at Tempe
Beach Pool Will Be Broken This
Season-Ticket Sale Expected to
Be Good.

One hundred thousand persons
will visit Tempe Beach swimming
pool and half that number will
battle there during the coming sea-
son, E. P. Carr, chairman of the
Tempe Civic club committee in
charge of the pool, yesterday
prophesied. Mr.. Carr based his
opinion on past attendance records
at the pool. The pool is to open
April Is.
From the time the pool was first
opened five years ago. the attend
ance has been rapidly increasing,
Mr.. Carr said. More than $4,000
persons went to the pool last sea-
son. Half that number bought
bathing tickets. s,-s~s4v~.s. ,ss
Constructed at an original cost
Of $3250, the Tempe Beach pool
has been improved until it now
represents an outlay of approxi-
mately $1,000, Mr.. Carr said.
Construction of an elevated band
stand, which is to house q check
room for clothing and valuables on
the ground floor, is now under way
at the pool. Provision is to be made
for checking privileges for all wear
ing apparel and valuables of bath
ers. This improvement is consid-
cred necessary because of the fact
that some complaints have been re-
ceived in past years regarding the
theft of clothing and valuables from
the dressing rooms.
Workmen are also replacing the
spring-board at the deep end of the
tank with another plank that is to
be more firmly set and which it is
believed will be more safe for
divers.
Swimming Instructor
Edwin H. Carroll, assistant ma
tional director of life saving for
the American Red Cross, will ar
rive at the Tempe Beach pool on
May 10 and remain until the 29th
of the same month to instruct fu-
ture life savers, Mr.. Carr said. An
instructor from the Red Cross comes
to Tempe each year to give this
instruction.
Credentials showing that success
full students have passed the tests
are issued at the end of the in
struction period. These men and
women then go to other parts of
the State to act as life guards, in
structors, etc, at other pools.
Plans for swimming contests to
be held at the pool are not now
complete, Mr.. Carr said. But he
said that the events for this season
will outnumber those for last year
and he also predicted that previous
attendance records for these events
will be broken.
Because of the fact that the
Tempe Civic club is the only such
organization in Arizona that holds
membership in the American Ath-
letic union, the Tempe Beach pool
is the only place in the State, ex-
cepting the State University, where
contests may be held under aus
pices of the athletic union and rec
OrdS made set down as authentic.
Records made at Tempe Beach
pool are recognized as authentic
throughout the United States, and
also all over the world. Local swim
mers have every chance to win fame
if they can qualify.
Mrs. A, E. Martin, who is ham
ding the advance sale of season
tickets, yesterday said that she has
already made satisfactory sales and
that she has every expectation that
sales for season tickets this year
will greatly exceed the number sold
last year. She will canvass the en-
tire town between now and the
opening date, she said.
Mr.. Carr urges all who can do