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Show Champion Australian Woman Swimmers Are Touring Country SAN FRANCISCO. August 21 Fanny Fan-ny Durack and MIna Write, the Australian Aus-tralian world's champion swimmers,1 who recently left Chicago to partiri 1 pate in swimming meets in "mauy parts of the country, tried for two years to arrange the tour thev have at last started The unsuccessful attempt of William Wil-liam Unmack in 1917 to obtain authorization author-ization of the Amateur Athletic Union for tho trip, was duplicated this year by George Dowsing, whose proposal to accompany the young women as guardian guar-dian and manager failed of approval. Fears were expressed lest an attempt should be made to capitalize the talents tal-ents of the swimmers. The tour finally fi-nally was arranged through the efforts ef-forts of Frederick Rubien. after much correspondence and telegraphing to New York .uIrlr lo tuHr f,n;i1 appearances in the Inited States at Portland. Ore. and Seattle. Wash.. It was announced the swimmers will participate in a national na-tional event at Alameda, across the bay from San Franesro, and at Los Angelep Ifisi Durark ha- held all women's swimming records from BO yards to1 the mile. Her record for the 50 yar is I has been tied by Olga Dorfner at 29 seconds. She has a record of 49 l-o seconds, a half second better than the best American record, for r yards. Her other records are 100 yards, 1 06. 220 yards 2:57, quarter mile 6:17, h j If I mile 12.52; mile 26:08. The record for ihe 100 ard breast stroke, 1:28, is held by Miss Wylb She is a former holder of the records for the 50, 100, 220 and 410 yards, free style, and now finishes onl a whispher behind Miss Durack. Seattle Fine Baseball Town SEATTLE, Aug 21 Although the Seattle team is far down in the standing stand-ing list of the Pacific Coast baseball league, the city is ranking high in the! attendance column. A Sunday double! In ;iiicr with Portland recently drew a crowd estimated at 10)000 The "stand -1 ing room only" sign was hung up onl the grandstand. |