Evening star., 1932-07-10
SWIM CAMPAIGN
OPENS TOMORROW
Final Plans Being Made for
Six-Day instruction
Course.

Final plans are near completion for
Washington's six-day 'Jearn-to-Swim'
campaign which opens tomorrow. Hun
dreds Of parents are taking coupons
clipped from Washington newspapers
to the 21 swimming pools cooperating
and receiving assignments for their
children to the instruction classes.
Hot weather will have big part IN
making the campaign a success, as most
Of the pools are open-air baths, but
there also are plenty Of indoor pools.
Commodore w. z. Longfellow Of the
committee has announced that the
beginners test" fer which the button
will be awarded at the end Of the series,
is as follows:
Jump into water over the candidate s
own depth, level off, swim Is feet and
then after making a sharp turn swim
back 25 feet to the css2rting place.
Camps Give Instructions.
In addition to the 81 cooperating
pools, where free instruction is given,
all the Summer camps conducted by
local welfare agencies will be in close
harmony with the campaign. The camps
of the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, the
Y. M. G. A., Y. w. @. A., Salvation Army
and others which have swimming IA
cilities. use similar methods and tests
and awards This makes the week s
efforts considerably more far reaching.
In the free poo's of the public play
ground system. the beginners classes
will conform to the groups using the
pools at the time SO as not to change
the schedule, and small instruction pools
will be used for this purpose at the pool
near the Washington Monument.
Announcement Of the class hours has
been made at the Central Y. M. G. A.,
which offers mems classes at 10 am.
and 4:45, $50, 6, $50, Q and $3.50 pm,
The boys department pool will have
classes each half hour from 2 to 4:30
At the Y. w. G. A. the children's
! hours will be 80 to 2, 2 to 2:30 and
4 to 4:30 pm, and boys under 10 can
be taken in the childrens classes here
The classes for women only are sched-
uled at IL to 80 am. and 9 to $3.50
pm. The only fee is in connection with
the regular Y. w. c. A. health exami-
nation, which is 81.
Catholic University Pools.
Catholic University swimming pools
have classes for men at 10 am. Monday
Tuesday and Friday and for women at
10 am. Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-
day during the campaign.
The Mckinley pool, which is typical
Of the United States park pools, will
have its free classes for boys and girls
daily from 10:30 to II and for men and
women from IL to 1880.
The Airport pool will have an early
morning mixed class for adults at 1880
and another mixed class for men and
women at $50 pm. In addition, there
will be a children's class at IL am. and
class for women at pm.
The pools for colored will have q SIM
ilarly liberal schedule in the playground
and United States parks pools and al
Dunbar High School the classes are az
follows: Boys. 3 to 4; girls, 4 to S;
women, to 6, and men, s to 7.
The Twelfth Street Y. M. c. A. pool
will have classes for women and girls
IL to IL daily and 6 to pm, while
the mems classes will be to pm
and to 10 pm. Glasses for boys here
will be 9 to ii m. and to 8 pm.
Glen Echo Schedule.
The Crystal Pool at Glen Echo Park
| has a corps of life guards who are
qualified swimming instructors. SWIM
ming instruction time Is: Morning, lC
| to 1890, boys up to II years Of age;
1890 to IL, girls up TO IL years Of age
IL to 1870, ladies. Afternoon, 1870 tc
! 2, boys 13 to 16; 2 to 2:30, girls 13 tc
16; 230 to g. gentlemen. Evening, 8 tc
$3.50, ladies; $3.50 to 9, gentlemen.