Show WATER SPORTS HIT l M C A AS Swimming S g Pool Bool Scene of Activity Among Athletic Members of Association NEW MEW INSTRUCTOR SECURED IS JOHN C BOTT FORMER TEAM TEAMMATE TEAMMATE MATE OF M J HANDY Water sports have hit the tho Y M C A During Duing the fall falland and winter months the tho has been Lusy busy working w up Interest int re t in mall all kinds of o gymnasium gymn lum sports ports and now it has h turned its attention to the big lg swimming pool As a result the association n discovered d last evening that there th re were some twenty odd well devel developed water dogs among its membership John Joh C Bott formerly of ot the Chicago Central Y M C A Life Saving club has hag charge of this department and has already begun the development of some promising young swimmers Bott Is a former team tean mate of M J JT Handy of ot Chicago the lad who spent last sum summer summer mer breaking tweaking worlds records iq the swimming line Last evening Bott put a class of ot twenty twenty twenty ty swimmers through the first course of the English overhand and sin single single single gle arm m strokes besides showing the boys now how to dive for a 8 start In a race and how to snake make m ke the under water turns used by all fast swimmers of the day in tank racing A A number of contests were also pulled off In the tub race for the se seniors seniors J H Fowle Foe was first and Ca Snow second The rhe candle race was won by J H 11 Fowle Fowls with J second In the tho intermediate inter class Russell Mc McIntyre Mcintyre Intyre won the candle race with Booth Bradley second s In the swim on back race rac for the same class S P Stew Stewart Stewart art Alt won with Mar Van Cott second The five times across acro dive was won by Ralph Howe with S P Stewart sec see second second ond ondIt ondIt ondIt It Is the intention of Mr Bott to te in introduce introduce introduce water ter polo as soon as a few good swimmers are developed In the interclass basketball series of games gantes played last Jut evening the Blues won from the blacks by a score of 28 to 16 I |