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Show Earl Sheely, Whose Homer Beat the Seal? in Final mwyf-l l-"J.rmi i'ij.juv.i ini.wA'i-'J'-XMis1 a1 iw, )'- v :'"-'f' '- ' ' ', 'N ' k - - : " . - "--, ' , V I: - V ' ' : v ' ' . ' i ' " - '-' J. " '' . ' - - ' - i i . , I, J - a ; " . v t - ' ' '' s- , i " i - . a ' - -" " - " . - , - ? s j " " "L ' ' : : 1 : 'i! a - r .s ; f ' -M -1$ i . i - r ' ; ' 'i ' . ' !. : " V " - . : I ' ' , t -y-'. - ',v- ' ! ' , ' X : . "V --'HI NOT SPORT PIES IRE IDE STANDARD Uniform Instruction in Boxing,, Box-ing,, Wrestling and Swimming Swim-ming Now in Force. ! U'A.SHl.V JTON, D. C, June 9. The 1 'iiK-stion, What is the most popular .spoit in the navy?" cannot be uaieori-callv uaieori-callv answered. The answer seems to be: "The elective sports are not universal." The elective sports include football, baseball, rowing, hotkey and basketball, with numberless leas pretentious games. There are, however, three sports which every man in the navy must. lake, at least in massed drill, if not in individual eornpetition. Every man must know how to swim, box and wrestle as a part of his navy training. Durint; the past winter boxing and wrestling matches, weekly or semi-weekly, semi-weekly, were held, with an attendance only limited by the size of the auditoriums auditor-iums and witli entries similarly limited. The mass instruction, however, was not limited to the winter months. As a matter of fact, classes of large numbers were possible when all the instruction could be given outdoors. Exactly the same was true of wrestling. Indoor swimming was possible to only ja limited degree during the winter 1 months, and oidy in tanks in cities and I large towns which were placed at the disposal of the navy stations by patriotic patri-otic organizations like athletic clubs and the Young Men's Christian association. Instruction Uniform. One of the most interesting developments develop-ments in organlzinzg these three universal uni-versal sports has been the standardizing of the instruction. The men of the navy are today being taught swimming, boxing box-ing and wrestling in exactly the same manner. Walter Camp, chairman of the athletic committee of the navy commission commis-sion on training camp activities, has just sent to every athletic director in the navy stations of the country the standardized stan-dardized method for teaching the three universal sports of the navy. The instruction in-struction in boxing and wrestling was worked out through laboratory demonstrations demon-strations given by- Herman P. Olcott, athletic director at the Great Lakes station. sta-tion. That in swimming was devised by Alexander Sutherland, swimming instructor in-structor in the Boston or First district, under the direction of George V. Brown, athietic director for the district. Sutherland Suther-land was formerly swimming coach at Harvard university and Andover academy. The Standard Rules. The standardized rules, which are recommended rec-ommended as worthy of adoption by American young men in the interests of physical preparedness, are as follows: BOXING. Instruct in hailing fists, the proper placing of weight on feet, with weight a little on front foot. Practice three steps advance and with left jab, three steps retreat with left hook. Instruction on left hook. Instruction on right cross to belly. WRESTLING. Ordinary hold around the waist, the Instruction In-struction on how to break such hold with tlie knee or heel of the hand or head. Headlock and break. , Strangle hold and flying mp.re. Waist hold and flying mare. Double wrist-lock. J Jiu-jitsu leg break. Knife protection. ' Breaking arm in clinch. Block to kick. SWIMMING. Uniformity ot drill, regardless of number num-ber in class or previous aquatic training train-ing of anv individual. Space men so that free-arm movement is possible. Land drill for arms. Position. Stand erect, heels together, arms at sides. Arms sideways; raise to level with shoulders. Bend arms forward from elbows, to right angle with upper arm. Left arm brought sharply down to thigh. When this point is readied the right arm describes the same movement, while the left arm is carried upward and sideways until it reaches a position at right angles with shoulder, when the stroke is completed. The right arm stroke is completed exactly like the left. Continuity of action is a vital point essential es-sential to perfection of this stroke. Leg action. Enter shallow water. Each pupil assumes .a horizontal position, face downward, supported by hands. Arch instep. in-step. Legs as near the surface of water as posssible, and not more than four inches apart. Legs must have free action ac-tion from hips, and alternate continuously continuous-ly in quick shallow kicks. No co-ordination is required between arm and leg movement. When leg and arm action have been mastered, divide group into teams of tivo. Number one grasps number two about the hips, giving necessary support while arm and leg action are used together. At the conclusion of a reasonable time, teams shift positions. There is no deviation from this routine until all have mastered the art of swimming. swim-ming. Have adopted the crawl stroke as the most satisfactory for the development of swimmers of all classes. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Won. Lost. P.O. Chicago 29 12 .707 New York 29 14 .674 Cinr'.nnatl 23 22 .511 I Pittsburg 16 22 .463 Boston 19 24 .442 Philadelphia 18 24 .429 St. Louie ......18 25 .419 Brooklyn 16 28 .364 , Yeste'day'a Eesults. No games scheduled. Today's Schedule. Cincinnati at Boston. Pittsburg at Brooklyn. St. Louts at New York. Chicago at Philadelphia. |
