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Show UNCLE SAM WANTS TO WIN SWIMMING RACES Tribune Special Sporting Sen-Ice. NEW YORK, Oct. 26. The winter swimming game will soon be at hand. As usual tho New York A. C. will bo tho lca$cr In the water sport, but the regiments regi-ments Qt New York and Brooklyn threaten threat-en to take away a few of the prizes. The Thirteenth regiment of Brooklyn last year mndo n good start and turned' out a relay team that wan far from being bad. This winter Major Turpln, president of the athletic ath-letic association, has made plans for a series of swimming meets between tho national guardsmen, and the Twenty-second Twenty-second and Seventy-first of Now York are to have swimming teams. The New York Bwlmmcrs will not be seen In competition until about tho middle mid-dle of December, when the monthly moots will be started. As the United States Is anxious to make a clean sweep In tho swimming races at London next summer, the closost attention will be paid to the development of long-distance men. Champion Cham-pion Daniels will doubtless be able to sweep everything before him In the ahort dlHlance events. The Olympic committee has about decided de-cided to hold several Bwlmmlng meets throughout tho country for the purpose of picking the men for tho London games. The New York A. C, In New York; the Chicago A. C.. In that city; the Missouri A. C. of St. Louis, and the Olympic club of San Francisco will hold carnivals In the spring, and the winner will be taken to the Olympic games,. |