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Show Entrance of Women and Girls in Water Sports Has Boosted Swimming WHEN the Amateur -Athletic union let down tho bars a bit for women and girl swimmers, it did more U encourage the sport than anything that eonhl have happened. Tho result has been to create cre-ate an interest that has been lacking in the past. Thousands of eirls and women who never before gave much thought to the sport have taken it up and records have been made which have astonished the men who formerly considered con-sidered tho gentler sex as unable to perform such feats. Australia and England Eng-land have always had wonderful women swimmers, but now they must figure with the fair ones of tho United States in the record holding lines. ' Fanny Durack of Australia has been a remarkable swimmer and holder of most world's records for women, but this year some of the American girls have encroached upon her holdings and threaten to annex more of them before another year has passed. Olga Dorfner of 1'hilndelphia, Miss Dorothy Burns of Los Angeles, Miss Clairs tialligan of New York, Miss Frances Cowells of San Francisco and others have made splendid marks and established new American records. Norman Ross, , the Pacific coast swimmer, has been a great performer this year, smashing numerous records, as has UuUo Kahanamoku of Honolulu. Tiudy Langer of San Francisco and Terry IcGillivray of Chicago. Ted ("aim ol' Now York lias been a consistent con-sistent performer, while Kichiird Dungan of Oakland, Cal., has created new professional pro-fessional records. It was supposed that when C. M. Daniels gave uj the record breaking stunts there would be a halt, but the newcomers seem just as capable of smashing things up as the great. New York swimmer did. The best performances for the year follow: Svdney, Australia, Feb. 17 In the 100-vards 100-vards breast stroke championship of Australia. Aus-tralia. Miss M. Wylle. holder of the title, equaled her own record of 1 minute 3-5 seconds. Philadelphia, Feb. 17 Miss Olga Dorfner Dorf-ner equaled the world's record for tlid ."iD-yard dash of 29 seconds. Honolulu, "H. I., Feb. 24 In the open water swimming championship, P a 0 MrGillivray of Chicago won the 220-yanT swim in 2::,0 4-5; l-.uciy Langer of Los An- V geles won the 4 40-yards in 5:17 3-5; Har- old Kruger of Honolulu won the 100-yard hack stroke in 1:13 2-5 ; Miss Dorothy Burns of the Pacific coast established a now American record for women in tho 220-yard swim, which she won in 3:U3. New York City, March 14 Tedfred H. Cam) of the New York A. C. established cwo new indoor American records: yards in 2:4i 4-5, and 300 yards in 3:2S. Xew Haven, Conn., March 22 A new world's amateur record was set by the Valo swimmers in the 200-yard relay race against Columbia, when they won in 1:42 1-5. The team is composed of Captain Cap-tain Ferguson, Mayer, Thomas and richlaet. New York City, March 27 Norman Ross of San Francisco swam 220 yails in a 75-foot pool in 2:22 1-5, a new record. Chicago, March 2S John P. Lichter plunged 60 feet in 17 2-5 seconds, a new amateur record for the event. Pittsburg, March 2-0 Ted Cann of the New York A. C. won the U'0-yard national na-tional A. A. V. swimming championship in 55 1-5 seconds. Oakland, Cal., March 31 Frances Cowells Cow-ells set three American swimming marks for women in a 25-yard tank, under the auspices of the A. A. U. She made the 440-yard race In 6:44 4-5; 300 yards in 4:3'i and 200 yards in 2:55. Cincinnati, Ohio. April 10 In a 150-yard 150-yard race in the national A. A. U. senior back-stroke swimming: contest, Norman Ross of San Francisco made tiie distance in a 60-foot tank in 1:50 3-5. Chicago. April 12 The Illinois Athletic club's relay four tied its own world's record rec-ord for the 400-yard event, when it traveled trav-eled the distance in 3:42 4-5. The I. A. C. team was composed of Hebner, McGilli-vray, McGilli-vray, Ratthel and Jones. Oakland, Cal.. April 13 Richard Dun-gan Dun-gan of the Piedmont A. C. crossed the 100-yard mark in 57 1-5 seconds, a new professional record. Miss Frances Cowells Cow-ells swam the 500 yards in 7 minutes Philadelphia,' April 14 Miss Ohja Dorfner Dorf-ner swam the 500 yards in 7:32 1-5, bet- v terlng the record of Miss Frances Dm-ack. Dm-ack. Miss Mabel Keele won the 200-yard' national breast-stroke championship, new title, covering the distance hv I 3:40 1-5. ' Philadelphia, April 16 A new Amerf- ' . can record for women was established by Miss Olga Dorfner in the 100-yard dash, her time heincr 1 :07 3-5. Plttsburfr, April 20 Five seconds were clipped from the world's record for 200 yards breast stroke swimmius? in the national na-tional championship meet, when Michael McDermott made the distance in a 75-foot 75-foot pool in 2:30 4-5. Alameda, Cal., May 30 Norman Ros3 swam 75 yards (back stroke) in :51 4-j, a new record. Los Anpeles, June 15 Dorothy Burns of the T,os Angeles A. C. established a new American record of 2:2i 1-5 for the women's 150-yard hack stroke swim and retained the national ehamoionship. Del Monte, Cal., June 22 Norman Ross pets a new record bv swimming' 120 yards in 1:07 2-5. Del Monte, Cal., June 23 New American Amer-ican records for the 200 and 220-yard swimming events by Norman Ross. Hi time for the two events was 2:04 and 2:1. respectively. Detroit, Mich. Norman Ross defeated Ted Cann in the 500 -yard senior championship, cham-pionship, breaking the world's record at the 440-yard mark by making the distance 1 in' 5:16 1-5. and the American record for j 500 yards in fi:05 1-5. I Sydney. Australia, March 1. Miss , . Fanny Durack. chamnion woman swim- ' . mer of the world, set a new record for the 220-vard swim, of 2:55. Chicago, July 28 Hudcly Wallen of the Hamilton club won the ninth annual Chicago Chi-cago river marathon, swimming the course of 1V miles In 35:"5. Oakland, Cal., July 27 Richard Dungan holds a world's professional record for 150 yards. Time, 1:3 ( 1-5. Kan Diecro, Cal. Norman Ross bro' the National A. A. U. record for the mile swim, making the distance in 24:10. Shawnee on Delaware. Pa., Aug. 4 Miss Olga Dorfner won the 440-yard A. A. U. women's national swimming championship champion-ship in 7:53 2-5. New York City, Aug. 9 The American record for plunce distance by a woman was broken by Miss Charlotte Royle, who j plunged K2 feet in :51. Jf ' Honolulu. Hawaii. Aug. 21 Lu-:f J Langer swam 500 vard? in 6:13 1-5. f Detroit. Aug. 25 Michael McDermott 1. won the National A. A. U. long-distanc1 ml swimming championship over a course 'mFi five miles in the Detroit river. Time." I 1:44:45. J Oakland, Cal.. Sept. 2 Richard Dun- T gan broke the world's professional record for the 100-yard hack strike straightaway straight-away in open salt water. He swam the 100 yards in 1:12 1-5. Alameda. Cal., Fept. 3 A new record of :10 "-5 for the 25-yard event was made by Georze Cunha of San Francisco Honolulu, Sept. 2 Duke Kahanamoku. sprint chamnion. eon ailed his own world's record of 23 seconds in winning the 5n-yard 5n-yard swim. Miss Claire Ga'ligan of New York broke the world's record in a 2J0-yard 2J0-yard race, for women. Her time was 3 minute?. 5 1-5 seconds. Honolulu, Sent. C New marks made here were as follows: lnO yards open, won bv Duke Kahanamoku in 5T, seconds flat (world's record); KiO-vard hack stroke, won by Harold Kruger (Honolulu", in l:n l-; (world's record); 50-yard national women's championship, won bv Dorothy Burns in 2: 4-5 seconds (American record) rec-ord) women's 100-yard. onen. won by Dorothy Burns in 1 :07 4-5 (American record). Honolulu. Sept. 7 Norman Ross and Claire CaMigan set two new American records, sanctioned by the Amateur Athletic Ath-letic union, as follows: Norman Ross won the Kso-yard swim in lt:27 3-5; Miss Claire "alligan won the ladles" 4 10-yard swim in fi:30 4-5. Duke Kahanamoku took the national na-tional tlt'e for vards in 54 seconds Oakland. Cal., Oct. 1 Miss Claire Galilean, Galil-ean, American woman champion, set a new record for women in the 500-yard swim by. covering the dictaneo in 731 1-i. Santa Monies. ca.. Oct. 7 The half-mile half-mile open watr v national championship swimmin? race for women was won bv Claire r;;iillgan. Her time for the distance was l,:34. S;;n Francisco, Cal., Oct. flMis Katharine Kath-arine Flaherty, aged 17, h-o'fo the women's wo-men's n-ord for the swim across the Golden Gate, her time being 2 minutes, 3" seconds, for the distance of sevca-eiL'hths sevca-eiL'hths of a mile. San Fran.-b.T,, C.. X0v. 7 For thcw4 rirnt time in me swimming hl.siorv of thC.! I'ae-.llr coast, a woman swam a roimiJ" np course across the Cohort Gate. M'ps Ha7)el unnitmham, -ycar.ollJ gIrl made the course In 1:35 :&. |
