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Show SULLIVANTELLS Deep Breathing 1$ of I Great Value, Champion Under - Water Swimmer Talks to Amateurs. How to Remain Beneath the Surface H and ITako Headway Disclosed. Hj Frank J. Sullivan of Central T. if. C. A., who this year has broken all prevl-oun prevl-oun American records at undcr-water swimming; winning the championship H In the contests at Milwaukee, has writ- ten an article for one of the -current periodicals describing his specialty und racing strokes used by swimmers in general. Sullivan Is a product of Cen-tral Cen-tral Y. M. C A. training, having learned to swim in the Central tank under Directors Oscar Knudson and G. A. White. Sullivan's article appears In the American Boy of Detroit for July and is in part as follows: "The chief requisite of the under-wa-tcr swimmer besides good lungs is a knowledge of how to breathe. The breath Is not the quick-drawn breath 1 of the sprinter, nor the regular inhnla- tlon of the distance swimmer, but a j long, deep breath, repeated until the farthermost corner of each lung reeks with oxygen. When the lungs are thus filled the swimmer Is ready to go under. "These deep breaths spoken of, It must be remembered, are not to be ta-ken ta-ken on going in the water, but before you are ready, the object being rather to thoroughly oxygenate the blood, than to 1111 up upon air. The body must be co full of this element as not to rcquiro it for some moments. Tho surplus air is in the way, and should be expelled -little by little as the oxygen is used, the nitrogen and carbonic acid gas being harmful when held too long. The be- -glnner should go through dally breath- -Ing exercises, and each day In his prac-tlce prac-tlce should try to go a little farther. "The stroke to be swum by the under-water under-water swimmer Is the brenst stroke -with the face held down. A great num-ber num-ber of swimmers find no trouble In re-malning re-malning under the water, but if those -who do will glvo a slight upward turn of the palm of the hand and point tho -head well downward they will no long-cr long-cr bo troubled. The overhand strokes " may be swum under water, but they are extremely trying; for distance no -one will dispute the superior value of -the first named stroke." Despite warnings of friends that he I that the result has been exactly opposite. oppo-site. He writes that he has not only increased his lung capacity to 395 cubic Inches, but has rendered himself Immune Im-mune to colds and lung troubles. Sullivan will, in all probability, leave the ranks of the amateur swimmers swim-mers in the near future and turn professional. pro-fessional. A position as assistant to Mr. White at Central has been offered him, as well as one at Evanston. He ha3, however, hopes of winning the world's amateur record for under-wa-ter swimming before turning "pro." |
