Evening star., 1950-08-06
First Tie in History
OF Meet Recorded
In 2OO-Meter Race
By the Assecioted Press

HIGH POINT, N. c., Aug. S.
A dead heat, something new in
senior women's national AAU
swimming, put new American
record on the books today at the
1850 championships.
Defending Champion Evelyn
Kawamoto of Honolulu and
Marge Hutton of Atlantic City,
N. j.. finished the 200-meter
breaststroke in a tie at 3:10.2.
Miss Kawamoto represents the
Hawaii Swim Club and Miss HUI
ton the Brighton Swim Club.
Their time was 81 seconds bet
ter than the record 3:16.3, set by
Kathering Rawls of Miami, Fla,
in 1881. AAU officials said the
dead heat was the first ever re-
corded in the senior women'S
competition. They added that the
gold first-place and silver second
place medals will be split, and
the co-champions will get a half
of each medal.
Defending champions, who were
beaten in three of the five OPEN
ing events yesterday, Jared bet
ter today. although Barbara Jen-
sen of Crystal Plunge. San Fran
cisco, lost another title to Maui
reen O'Brien of the Town Club
Of Chicago.
First Double Winner.
Miss O'Brien became the meets
first double winner by taking the
100-meter backstroke crown with
o time of 1:17:9, which bettered
by 81 seconds Miss Jensen's win
ming time last year.
Miss O'Brien. who led all the
way, won by a length over Sheila
Donahue of the Lafayette Und0
Country Club. Miss Jensen fin
tshed sixth.
Yesterday Miss O,Brien took the
2o0-meter backstroke title from
Miss Jensen.
Thelma Kalama of Honolulu,
defending champion in the 400
meter free-style, kept her title de-
spite a pressing challenge from
Carolyn Green Of the Ft. Lauder"
dale (Fla.) Swim Association.
Miss Kalama won by a half-length
in 5000, an improvement Of more
than 10 seconds on her winning
5:41.2 Of last year.
The Honolulu "a" team re-
tanned its 800-meter freestyle re-
lay championship easily. The
combination of Julia Murakami.
Catherine Kleinschmidt, Miss Ka-
wamoto, and Miss Kalama had
nearly half a laps lead at the
finish over the Town Club of Chi
cago entry. The winners time
was 10:37.+12.5 seconds better
than it's 1850 mark.
Sara Wakefield Upset.
Pat Mccormick of the Los An
geles Athletic Club pulled an up
set in defeating Sara Wakefield
of West Palm Beach, Fla, the
1850 indoor champion, in the one
meter diving finals. Miss Nc
Cormick, who won the platform
diving yesterday, registered 144.89
points to 1890 for Miss Wake
field. 4
Zoe Ann Olson of the Athens
Athletic Club. Oakland, Calf, the
1949 one-meter champion, is not
participating in this meet.
Honolulu's Hawaii Swim Club,
defending team champion, jumped
into first place in team competi-
ton with its showing in the second
day of the championships.
The girls from Hawaii had 80
points for an 11-point lead over
the second-place Town Club of
Chicago. The Los Angeles Athletic
Club was third with 16.
Other team scores: Ambassador
Swim Club, Washington, IA; Ft.
Lauderdale Swim Association. 10:
Lafayette Gnd.) Country Club, g.;
Brighton Athletic Club, Atlantic
City, 4; Crystal Plunge, San Fran
cisco, 3; Multnomas Athletic Club,
Portland, Ore, Atlanta (Ga.)
Athletic Club, and Takoma Swim
Club, Washington, D. c., 2 each;
and Mexico City, !.
Four events tomorrow will end
the 1850 championships: The 100
meter breaststroke, 800-meter
freestyle, three-meter diving, and
S00-meter medley relay.