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Show Immers train jORJMiEASON jfc on Atlantic Coast Is Sight in Temperature jl for Work. pTITORS MUST PROVIDE . jjlT AND TWO 'ASSISTANTS Sionship Swim WW Be eld in Boston; Best J : Men Entered. jJSpeclal Sporting Service. YORK, July 20.-Now thai, the igfiaiong the coast aro assuming a l&8ui"mcr temperature, the nth-yho nth-yho Rive their strcuglh to fishv ?re donning bathing suits and overboard in preparation for 2-too short soason of outdoor l$ng competitions. The first of Rimming meets will bo held by XfL lk A'. C a1 Travora islanrl. Xand from now uutil tho middle ttpmber the contests will follow her speedily". The inland swim-contend swim-contend in the fresh water 5d mora will also be busy. Three Si !"e;18tan:e races will bo tho m of the season tho Marathon A A"le"cin Lifo Saving So-jLm So-jLm the. Battery to Coney Island. lco estimated at between ten and miles; Mississippi river Mara-b$n Mara-b$n miles, at St. Louis, and the e.tj???1 Jong-distance championship the United States to be hold frton between July 28 and Au- ilato of the Marathon swim to s I island has been fixed for Sun- 5lgust 11, nud the raco will bo Sharply at 0 o'clock in the ?r?er 1 rivo uo contost- flful1 b?nefit of the favorable iO.?P? nico has been sanctioned by i5Lncan Athletic Union and none lettered amateurs aro oligible. A digft.?? entries lmvo boon received . .JUzing the difficulty of providing fpr them all, the comraitteo has ;-Uo make it obligatory for each i 8UPPb' himself with a tflUILV"'0 assJstants to accompany i rift. 0 coursc In order to avoid yqgmuce of unfnir tactics, each 3?. w,.1i avo only one of his as-- as-- ftfE11 .,,1B-,rn boat n-wl tho other 'n VCQta,1!j a nval boat, so that U1fle1dai5.1?,1i 2 Kivott to first, 'cJ!e5 t0 ho Bvrim flvo miles I ttlii ulccAtlnff of the contcsUnts 3lfteW A"t 7, and details of tffi finnlly aRrccd Championship Svlm. rf4hampionship swim, to be held Jf, will practically bo the same B the local event, as the course 'Mt I 1 heT phwlostown bridge to .1 all over tho world have been asked to compete. in this race, and at least fifty entries arc assured from the various States in the Union, and from Canada and the British Isles. The first prize will be a handsome trophy valued at several hundred dollars, which has been offered by C. F. King of Boston, and in addition there will be a purse for each of the first three men to finish. ! Tho inlander fishes will swim down the Mississippi for a distance of ten miles on a date to be selected later, but which is expected to be about the first week in September. An elaborate list of, prizes has been prepared and as nianv are very valuable a big entry list fs assured. The Larchmont Yacht club has picked JulySS as the date of its annual water carnival and the chairman of the com-mitteo com-mitteo in charge is hard at work preparing pre-paring a programme for the event. There arc to be swimming contests, canoe ca-noe tilting, water polo and the usual obstacle race for canoes. On .luly 25, 26 and 27, the .National A. A. U. championships cham-pionships are to be hold. Champion Daniels will appear in several of the swims, and is also heralded tho dark horse in the canoe nice; Charles JRuberl, the back stroke record holder, will be peon at his special; the New York A. C. champion water polo team will give an exhibition, and Walter Lee and Tim O'Cnllagha'n will competo in the fancy diving, A rumor has been current cur-rent among swimmers that these championships, cham-pionships, scheduled to take place at tho Jamestown exposition, will not be held there, as expected, but somewhere in tho Bast, and probably at Travcrs Island, under the auspices of the New York A. C. New Yorkers would, welcome wel-come 1 he change, for there have not boen public championships held here fol some time. |
