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Show AQUATIC STAR Swimmer's Work Is Fine Example Ex-ample of Result of New York Training System. NEW YORK, April 7. In the swimming swim-ming history of intercollegiate athletics ath-letics tho record of Hal Vollmer, Columbia's Co-lumbia's "human fish," during the past season, stands pre-eminonL At the recent Columbia-Yale swim-off In the Brokaw pool Vollmer won tho individual in-dividual intercollegiate championship and almost drngged his teammates to a similar victory. Vollmer's work is a fine oxaraple of the result of the training system In high school athletics now in vogue in New York. In most of the preparatory prepar-atory Institutions of learning here swimming has taken a decided jump as a major sport, and it was In high school that Vollmer received his valuable val-uable prc-collego training. As an intercollegiate aquatic star Vollmer is without a peer, but before his work at Columbia a number of national records had been made by him during his term at the Stuyve-sant Stuyve-sant High school. In Septombor, 1911, when he entered Columbia, his reputation soon began to assume national proportions. Dur- Ing his freshman year he won the titles in both tho century and furlong fur-long events against a field of the foremost swimmers of recent years. Shylock, of Pennsylvania; Hondley, of Yale; Lemcks, of Amherst; Ferguson, Fer-guson, of Yale, and Burchenal, of Princeton, all went down to defeat before the Columbia marvel, and from present Indications he is headed for the international championship when tho Olympic games are resumed at tho end of the war. The youth of Vollmer is an asset which should keep him in the limelight lime-light for many years to come. He is but twenty-three at tho presont time! and improving in speed and strength ovory season. If the improvement continues he will undoubtedly break the present world's record in several events. His progress will be watched with increased intorest when he goes in for some of the A. A. U. long distance dis-tance events this summer. oo |