Evening star., 1935-07-23
SKATER RECORDS
IN TAKOMA POOL
World Mark Believed Set
by Brooklyn Trio for
15O-Yard Medley.
BY BURTON S. HAWKINS.

u NcE again swimming records
proved to have as much dura-
\ bility as soap bubbles when
~ seven District records, one of
them believed to be a world mark,
fell like lead balloons before the tai
ented stroking of stand-out men and
women water churners last night in
the Takoma pool as Jimmy Patterson,
Ohio State, won the mems national
A. A. U. junior high-board diving title
The probable world record is the
150-yard medley relay time of 1862,
which was made by John Wicklun,
Fred Brandt and Paul Friesel of the
st. George Dragon Club of Brooklyn,
but as practically all medley races are
contested over the 30O-yard distance,
record books have not listed the
shorter route.
Does Fast Century.
Another brilliant performance was
by Friesel, breast-stroke champion of
Metropolitan New York, who covered
the century in Ill, but Walter
Spence, the human speedster, still
is tops at that distance with 1:05,
made in 1928. The local record was
shattered by 9.8 seconds.
Patterson. 19-year -old diving cham
pion of Ohio, gracefully def1ed grav-
ity in rolling up 11027 points to win
out over Stanley Dudek, st. George
Dragon Club, with 106.5l, and Bob
MacTiernan, Willow Swimming Club.
Oakmont, Pa. Bob Knight, local
newspaper man, proved the best of the
local contingent by nosing out his old
rival, Johnny BroadduS, Shoreham, to
annex sixth place.
Margaret Hoffman, 1892 Olympic
star, set new 100-yard breaststroke
mark for women by 124 seconds
stroking the route in 1926. Other Dis
trict of Columbia records toppled with
ridiculous ease as some of the fore
most swimmers in the East pressed
each other for honors.
Ann Bono, Shoreham, cracked her
own 50-yard record for women by
four-f1fths of a second in Winning in
81 seconds fiat.
Some More Feats.
OTHER record-breakers include Dor
~ othy Campbell. Penn A. c., Phil
adelphia, who shattered the women's
100-yard backstroke by seven seconds
in l minute % seconds; Art Anderson
another star, representing the St
George Dragon Club, covered loo
yards in free-style fashion in 58.3
smashing the local mark of 592, and
Wicklun, who propelled himself in
backstroke style in the feet time OF
1852, to break Bob Varela's mark OF
1:l7.6.
And so until the next swimming
meet is staged by Earle Weeks and his
A. A. U. afHliates these marks will
stand.
Summaries:
Mems Events
National A. A.. U. junior dashboard
1 terson gssn FTaneisco!s:. 1iO;27 points;
SaR PsGhs snrd caS
O9kmont, Pa); fourth, Al Platnick Gar
negie Library S. c., Homestead. Pa,
10O.14 points; fifth. Earl Casper Pitts
1Maryland I2 Club % Gardens3: % 9o 4s8 points: points;
seventh, John Broaddus (Shoreham). "a. .06
points. tTAere were 10 other entrants.l
Andersen ,st stree george cub. Brookyni; R T1
second, William Leahy Penn A. c., Phila-
dslphial; third. Bob Hack Penn a. c..
record. 59.2 seconds, held by George Croft,
Shoreham.I
1o0-yard back stroke - Won by John
Wicklun St George Dragon Club; second.
Dan Hogan philadelphia. unattached)
third William Mackey Penn A. c.. Time.
1:05.2 New record; former record,
.:176, held by Bob varella. Duke Uni
100--yard breast stroke-won by Paul
Friesel (St George Club. BROOKLYN; sec
ond. Fred Hoette unattached; third,
JoseDh Smith Carnegie, Library Cub.
Feeofd former recoFd %e at held BY
Harold Wilcox0
I50-yard medley relay-won by St.
George Dragon Club tWicklun. Anderson,
FTieseD; ETi rs second; Penn A, C.. philadelphia;
1859. New record for District)
Women's Events.
50-yard free style-Won by Ann Bono
tShoreham): second. Florence Peck Penn
A. c.: third, Jerry Williamson Baltimore,
unattached. Time. OBI fiat New Dis
trict record; former record. 0:31.s. held
1O0-yard back stroke--Won BY Dorothy
ond, Helen Alain Baltimore; unattached:
New District record: former record,
l:292, held by Leonora Tsube. Shore
IOO-yard breast stroke-won by Mar
garet Hoffman Washington. unattached: !:
second Florence Peck Penn A. C. Phfla-
delphia): third. Margaret Russell tunat-
tached). Time 90. New District rec
ord: former record, 1894, held by Eliza
beth HowardD