Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1925, Page 67

FEAT ONLY TO BE BALKED, All Efforts Since First Made 25 Years Ago Have Fail- ed, But Experts Agree American Girl Has Best Chance of Any Who BY CAPT. ALEC Famous British Expert on Ever Sought Honor. RUTHERFORD, the Cross-Channel Swim. Special Correspondent of The Star and North American Newspaper Alliance. APE GRIS August 1.—Is the English Channel, which C who has ever attempted it, at can schoolgirl of only 18 years? The European sporting world is French and British swimming expert of any woman_who ever has tried. the most skeptical observers have shi fident assurance that she will succeed. Undoubtedly Miss Ederle has gre about the difficulties of cross-channel the herculean task, the swimming of has baffled men and every woman last to be accomplished by an Ameri- agape at the startling idea, yet the s agree that she has the best chance As her training has progressed here fted from doubt and scoffing to con- atly impressed those who know most swimming. Although it is only 21 miles across the channe!, the accomplishment of the feat involves a swim of anythin drift caused by the strong tides here, of the Atlantic Ocean mcet. The fascination of the English Chan nel for swimmers undoubtedl in the difficulties to be ced. The flood tide coming up the channel from the | Atlantic runs for nearly seven hours | east of Dover. Then there is the ebb tide settling back to the westward toward the Atlantic, for five hou Ordinarily these tides run at peed | of four to five miles an hour and fol- | lowing strong winds may even in-| crease this rate. There is, however, veriod of slack tides known as the neap tides, when the currents slow own to about two les per The kest period of these neap tides between July and Septemuer. There- re the: months usualiy are - ted f the channel swim _Sandbanks Divert Tides. If the tides ran true up and do the channel, there would smali | chance of any one Swimming across, even with the two-mile tide running But experience has shown that there | are certain points where the sand banks in the English Channel throw | the tidal currents out toward the! French or English coasts, and so give the swimmer a certain amount of heip { several hours if he or she is lucky enough to get their aid. There is, for instance. just one pa ticular moment at which the swimmes should get to the Goodwin =Sands, three miles off the English coast. Sim ilarly with the V: . six miles off. and the Rid nel. The wrong mean meeting wn be 1 time of tide which will set | the swimmer back. toward the oppo-| site coast, a disappointing occurrence which has defeated many a swimmer. The time of start is, therefore, ar ranged to give the swimmer the best | opportunity of reaping full advantage | from the assisting currents. From the French side it is best to start| with about two hours at least of the| west-going tide, in order to make sure | of getting away from the small sand | banks along the French coast and to| enable the swimmer to strike a tide which sets advantageously to the of Ridge Sands. Thence the cour across to the tail of the Goodwin nds. when the foliowing tide- sets well up to thg back of Dover Admiral- ty Pier, but it requires a speedy | swimmer to get inside the line of the pier, and failure means swimming out | some portion of another tide. Women Who Have Tried. The first woman to attempt the| swim was Mme. Isacescue, a Vienna | post office employe, who in 1900 start. | ed from Calais and accomplished 14 miles in 9 hours. | A few vears passed without another woman ing the attempt. Then Annetfe Kellerman made two at- tempts from Davor to Calais. h was then quite young, and her complishment of one-third the tance was an excellent per considering that both times fered severely from s nglishwoman, M g r of a London f flicial, was the ne made repeated trials better than about across chapnel. i There were no further attempts by | women until 1922, when Mme. Sion of France swam for 14 hours and showed | that there was at any te a po: ity of a woman achieving succe: The following year, when a prize | of $5,000 was offered by an English | newspaper, Mme. Sion did even bet- | ter, abandoning her attempt only! after 16 hours in ‘the water. The | ame Summer an American contender | ppeared, Mrs., Clemington Corson of New York, who reached within a mile of Cape Griz Nez after 1415 hours and had to quit only because of increasing bad weather. Last year marked the entrance of Miss Lillian Harrison of Buenos Aires| on the lists of would-be channel s mers. After two unsuccessful trials. she postponed further efforts until| this Summer, and she opened the sea- son this vear on July 19, when she was defeated by a chill in the cold water after 8 hours 57 minutes. Mishaps of Channel Swimmers. There are all sorts of risks and dangers to be guarded against by those who accompany Miss Ederle on her swim—anything from the sudden collapse of the swimmer to the whole party being run down by a passing vessel In the past, there have been many such mishaps in the course of the 00 or more trials that have been made. Jabez Wolfe, who now is Miss Ederle’s chief coach, was once half-way across when, swimming at night, he struck his leg heavily against a piece of partially submerged wreckage and sus- I he suf-| ickness Lin mith, e department spirant. She | but_seldom aid | miles directly | 8 tained an injury which compelled him |s to_abandon the attempt. Several of the swimmers have been badly stung by Jjellyfish and thereby compelled to abandon their swim. The cold water is the most serious enemy of the swimmer. A long spell of warm weather is required to bring the water up to a bearable tempera- ture, giving a reasonable chance of success. In this respect, Miss Ederle would appear to_be fortunate. While the water will not be as warm as it was for Capt. Webb and William Bur- gess, vet there has been a long spell of brilliant sunshine in the south of England, which has warmed up the channel to a gratifying degree. Jellyfish Are Poisonous. Unfortunately, as soon as the water warms up swarms of jellyfish infest the channel and many of them are of the type whose bite is pisonous. During the day a Jjellyfish can be seen from the accompanying tug and the swimmer can be warned to avoid it, but at night this is impossible, and several previous contenders have struck into a shoal of jellyfish, which have given him an uncomfortable re- ception. Miss Kellerman had a very uncomfortable experience of this kind during her second swim. (CopsTight, 1025, by North Ameriean News- paper Allianee. -~ All rights reserved.) HIJERTBERG TO COACH RICE. NEW YORK, August 1 (#).—Ernie Hjertberg, internationally famous as thletic coach for three decades, has signed a contract to become track ind fleld coach at Rice Institute, Houston, Tex. tend the affair | Lillian Harrison of Argentina, | maon, 1g up to 60 miles, owing to the heavy where the North Sea and the waters WEATHER SEEMS LIKELY TO DELAY MISS EDERLE BOULOGNE, France, August 1 ). —1u 1e eather conditions are likely to cause Gertrude Ederle, the American girl swimmer, to postpone her attempt to swim across the English Channel from the French coast to the English side, which she expected to begin on Monday morning. Tonight u rough sea and an un- favorable southwesterly breeze made the prospeets very doubtful Tor the Amcrican girl to take the water an Jenday. However, all arrangements have been completed for the trial, and Jabez Wolffe, her trainer, expressed confidence that Miss Ederle would succeed, pro- viding she was fortunste emough to strike 16 hours of good weather. DISTRICT YACHTSMEN IN MARYLAND EVENT Leading lights of the Corinthian and Capital Yacht Clubs will weigh unchor this week for a final pleasure aunt before staging their first annual atta under the sanction of the A\merican Power Boat Assoclatjon on August 15. M The Miles River event at St. Mi- chaels, Md.. is to claim the yachtmen's attention next weck end, and many of them will leave the home moorings during the next few days in order to be on hand for the first races Friday. Commodore Conrad C. Smith and Vice Commodore R. B. Rives of the Corinthian Club will make the trip in their cruisers, the Viking and Virgin- fan. Frank Williams will sail the THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. imatra and L. W. Walker will pilot the Widgeon. Other boats in the party will be the Water Witch, owned by L. A. Lawton; T. M. Talbot's Hesper; the Miss Wash- on, owned by A. Segren, and R. H. arper’s Loal Along. Gus Forsberg, H. W. Kenedy, W. A. Rogers and P. B. Castles also will at- WOMAN WILL SWIM ALL EVEN WITH MEN CORBEIL, France, August 1 (#).— the only woman who will take part in | the “nautical marathon” which starts from this town at 2 o'clock tomorrow morning, tonizht refused to accept a handicap offered her by the 11 men starters in the race. She said she would start on equal | s with the men or would not start at T. W. Burgess, the veteran who swam the English Channel in 1813 predicted tonight that Miss Harrison would win. Rainy weather was in prospect with a temperature of about 60_degrees Fahrenheit. The contestants include, besidés Miss Harrison, George Pouilley, for- mer French ' national champion; Sachner, the Italian champlon, Bur- gess and two Senegalese sailors. it Rt WARWICKS SURPRISE BY DOWNING KNICKS Bus Freed's Warwicks pulled the prime upset of the unlimited sandlot series yesterday by nosing out the Knickerbocker nine at Georgetown hollow, 5 to 4. Other league games resulted in a 10-to-8 win_for the Aloysius Club over the National Circles and a White Sox victory over the Comfort- ers, 11 to 6. The Warwicks played airtight ball when they downed the fast Knicker- bocker aggregation. The infield alone handled 32 chances with only one error. | | The Knicks scored “two of their|C! runs in the final frame when Poore doubled; Fisher singled and Ortel got to first on Hamby's error while Poore was denting the plate. Fisher tallied on Taylor's sacrifice. Fisher's homer in the third made up the Knicks' total. AB.H.O.A s 14 o > Pl —. | womsssdus | % Sewssomcsol It 8l coomeonii~ =23 Runs—Sweeney. Bennle (2). Radice, Shee. by Poors, (2. Elsher (23, Brrm—lg:shr. Ortel. Two-base hits—~Poore (2), ghechy. Radice, Benpie.” Homie run—Fisher: Sacrifices—Freed, Bennie Taylor. Dol plays—Freed to Hamby. Neumann to Lowder to ‘Hamby. Left on bases—Warwic) Knickerbockers. 8. Bases on bal g i POy, O B Struck out—I Neu- By Neumann (April). 11, Wild pitch— New 2: by Fisher, rle. Fisher. Umpire—Mr. Ebe Diagrams above illustrate how the only five men able to swim the rou Gertrude Ederle, who shortly is to attempt the arduous feat is pictured her first meal at sea during a rehearsal swim. The bottle contains a warm beef extract. She will have a similar meal every hal channel effort. IN ALL DEPARTMENTS Union Printers still are outclassing the four other teams of the Depart- mental Base Ball Leazue. in_every department of the game. Besides feading the loop by a healthy margin of victories, the Printers are batting for a team average of .341 and are fielding at a .947 clip. Treasury is thelr nearest rival. Cy Simons remains at the top of the heap in individual batting, while Jimmle Dunn also is holding a place among the five leading hitters. figures corrected to date follow: STANDING OF THE TEAMS. Union Printers Agriculture TEAM BATTING Union_Printes Treasury ericultt urea otomac Par} TEAM FIELDING 220 3 228E Union Printers Treasury .. otomae Park.. gricuiture . Bureau ... INDIVIDUAL 21 ] 8o o o Ao, Bupeats e Ceveny, Burea Fic. Primtars.. . laherty, Pot, Park. uteninson. Printe: ord, Prinfers. 7. Printer lark. - Agriculture | Printe S i Moian 18 i3 Es s T35 00 RS | WO o R e oy o 3 . reock. wards, ) . 1 o woileaERaaaiE sl e xSt Rhrs 2o aaBE SRR SR 2N BEExeshuaatBolats et e Eaaitana bz 855 2 Treasury.. | Printers Park McClay, Treasurs. McAuliite, Bureau, Schultz. Bureau. PULLMAN NINE BETTERS TERMINAL LEAGUE LEAD Only three games were played dur- ing the week in the Washington Ter- ming] Y. M. C. A. Base Ball League, Pullman adding to its lead by taking iwo of them. Washington Terminal was defeated, 9 to 0, and Southern trimmed, 5 to 2. In the other circuit zame Washington Terminal nosed out Y. M. Ci A, 9 to 8. The Expréss team has been drop from the.standings because of numer- ous forfeits. 3 Present standing of the nines: Pet. Patiman . “puthern Black and W Y M C Wasl We test and service your bat- tery free. Charging, per day. Full line of new batteries in stock. Batteries called for and dellvered: Full line of auto accessories. « Vernon and Auto Sq:ly I 1015 9t st.cg:'w.u' Franklin 2735 Open_Evenings $1.50; rental, 25c 6 | ! themselves to hits aplenty. Jim Birth- ' | Clarendon } i | McDevitt, PAST PERFORM CHANNEL Webb, Dove: 1875: Time, Burges 1911; Time, ANCES OF SWIMMERS : t to Calais. 21 hrs. 45 min-. Dover to Calais. 22 hrs. 35 mins. Suilivan, Dover to Calais. 1923: Time, 26 hrs. 3C mins. Tiraboschi. Gris Nez to Dover. 1923: Time, Toth, Calais 1923: Time. o (Comprat 1525 i3 (Copyright, 1925, by North American Newspupes Alll PRINTERS ARE AHEAD \THREE FRAYS TODAY |TYPO TEAM LOOKING |26 CONTESTS TODAY IN COUNTY CIRCUIT! A trio of games will open the cham- plonship race today ween the six teams of the recently organized Prince Georges County Base Ball League. Kenilworth Park, Mount- Rainier play Seat ' Pleasant, and Pierce Athletic Club of Hyattsville goes against the Maryland Athletic Club at the Mar: landers’ field. Games listed in the District of Co- lumbia_champlonship series include a Comforter - Knickerbocker clash at Georgetown, a meeting of Retworth and Dominican Iyceum nines at Wash- ington Barracks, a Shamrock-Pullman it at Congress Heights' field and an encounter between the Chevy Chase Bearcats and Aloysius Club tossers at Chevy Chase diamond. In the Arlington County loop plays at Arlington and Cherrydale meets Addison at Lyon village. entertains Maryland Union Printer players are requested to meet at the Times-Herald building at 11:30 o'clock to take the 12 o'clock train for Annapolis, where the East- port semi-pro nine will be encountered. Hess Juniors, claimants for the Jjunior independent championship of the District, mowed down another challenger when they trounced the Kennedy Juniors, 7 to 2. Bub Geutheler was in rare form and allowed the Kennedys but 7 hits and fanned 11 men, while his mates were slamming the offerings of Lynch and Jones for 13 safeties. Any team chal- lenging the Hessmen's right to the title is requested to call Lincoln 8112. Crescent Seniors ran wild in a prac- tice game with the Juniors and helped right and Bill Simmons each crashed 3 jout triples, Birthright's coming when the bases were loaded. The Seniors Iplay at Woodridge today. For games call Pop Dulin at Franklin 6926. I. L. UMPIRE RESIGNS. NEW YORK, August 1 (#).—Daniel International League um- pire for several years, has resighed to enter business in Philadelphia. host to| 16 hrs. 25 min to St. Margaret” 16 hrs. 34 min by Nerth Aerican Newsrape: Alience ) h water separating England and France attained their goal. elow resting on the beach of her training camp at Ca TO NATIONAL SERIES | * Beginning with today’s game with | the Eastport. Md., semi-pros, Washing- ‘nion Printers will start three weeks of intensive practice for the | coming tournament of the Union Printers’ International Base Ball League, which opens at American League Park August Manager Heine Webb of the loca typo nine is attempting to book the strong Dreadnaught A. C. of Alexan- dria, semi-pro champion of northern Virginia, for the practice campaign. In addition to today's game and the prospective Dreadnaught clash, Webb's boys will continue with their regular schedule in the Depfirtmental League. For this year's tourney blessed with the entire roster of the team which won the 1924 champion- ship. He is looking forward to the coming event with even brighter hopes than he had at the beginning Iast vear because of the addition of another stellar hurler in Roudabush, a diminutive curve-ball artist. Roudabush, Hutchinson, Simons and ‘Webb himself will form the flinging staff of the local typos this year. To- gether they are probably the strong- est mound corps in the league. Few teams boast of more than two pitch- ers who can be counted on to go the full nine innings. Plans for entertaining the visiting delegations from the 11 cities which will send teams have been completed. Accommodations have been made with the Willard Hotel to house the entire group. An official souvenir program con- taining 96 pages has been planned by James F. O'Malley, president of the ‘Washington Union Printers’ Athletic Association, and copies will be distrib- uted to every visitor. Photographs of every player in the league, also offi- cials of the various printer athletic organizations and pictures of the prin- cipal places of interest in Washington and vicinity, will be included. I8 JONES ON COMMITTEE. ce. Photo by Capt. Alec Rutherford.) Webb is| | | | day. | i Gris Nez, and taking hour during the cross- INW. B. B. A. A. LOOPS Twenty-six games including all Qouble-headers are listed in the Wash- ngton Base Ball and Athletic As- | sociation schedule for today, The | first game of the Linworth;Crescent | | series for the senior champlonship ! will be played next Sunday. | TODAY'S GAM JUNIOR CLASS—Section A—Peerless va. tiantics, doubleheader, on South Ellipse. at 1 pm.: Mendian Congression: J:uhlv-, header. on East p.m. Section B—Southend vs. St. Mary’s_on East Ellipse, at 5 pm.: Crescent ve. Renrock. double: header, on diamond No. 4. at 1 p.m. Seec- tion C—Yorke Prep ¥s. Swanee, double- header. an Rosedale. at 1 pm.: Clover v. Arrow. Rosedal 11 Bleomingdaie vs. Freer, Pl P‘rd‘erlh Ve, MIDGET CLASS—Section A—Texas Orientals, doubleheader. on diamond No. at 1 D Winsalle ve. Bandail. double: header. on Thinl street and Missouri avenue, 1 pim.: Meridian vs. Ne double: diamond N I am. Section € field, ‘Goubleneader, on diamond No. 1% *Cardinais va. National. d | on West Ellipse. at 1 p.m.. | 1"at 3 p.m.: Términa) v header, on diamond No. South Ellipse at 5 p.m. WEEK DAY GAMES. CLASK_Section D—Victoria va. i, Piara, Monday. at 5 pant Auth v laza, Wednesday, at 5 p.m.: Eastern vs. St. Martin's, Plaza, Thursday, at 5"pm.: Eastern vs. Victoria. Plaza. Satur- day. at 5 p.m. LIBERTYS TAKE RUBBER WITH CONGRESS HEIGHTS Liberty Athletic Club base ballers | won the rubber of their three-game series with Congress Heights yester-, day at Plaza diamond, 9 to Lib- | erty went to bat in the last half of the ninth with the score knotted at | Sall. a two-bagger by Kremb and a | clean single by Ringold accounting ! for the winning tally. Finch pitched the first seven in- nings and fanned nine hatters before | being relleved by Kremb. { Georgetown Seniors will meet the ! Liberty Club foday at 3 o'clock at the Plaza | | { MIDGET St. Martin' NEW YORK, August 1 (#).—Elec- tion of T. A. D. Jones, head coach of Yale; as a member of the intercol- legiate foot ball rules committee to succeed the late Walter Camp has ’ been announced. PROBEY TIRE STORES 2104 Pa. 9th and P Sts. N.W. Ave. NW. DOG 'YS _ ¢ PET-SOPE ‘Wonder Liquid Soap Kills fleas, lice; other pests. Heals- mange, itch, eczema; other skin troubles. Harm- less humans and animals. Good for chiggers, mosquito bites, etc.~ Take Ne.Substitute Half-pint Tins, 35¢ At drug stores and .pet shops World Chemical Company /Washington, D. C. | contingent by winning the 100- 'ILLINOIS SWIMMERS \CAMP MEADE NINES | teams. | dent, representing the Illinois DO WELL AT SWIMMING AND WIN CANOE CONTEST All Paddling Events, Except One, Are Called off on Account of Rough Water, Lone Race Being : Captured by Potomac:s ALTIMORE, Md., August 1.—Washington swinmer B did well in the mect held here today under the auspices Maryland Swimming Club. The visiting water stars scored i number of the events with Florence Skadding leading the ( ard breast stroke for women s of both sexes in another competition Washington canoists were entered in practically all of the arrav oi events on the program, but after the 400-yard junior tandem contest 4ses won by the Potomacs. represented by Biggs and Millar, further paaaing racing was prevented by rough water. The Arundels were second in the lone event with Washington Cgnoe Club third and a second Potom pair fourth. Swimming summaries Men’s ents. BREAST STROKE— tached: seco; Athletic bington W, Ar . Can Ca T Baitin rl Alilenfeld e, L ANNEX A. A. U. MEET By the Associated Press SEATTLE, Wash., August Ulinoix athletic team. with 34 points, won the Amateur Athletic Union's swimming meet, which ended here to- ond, $10-YARD Bahike, Mary Carleton Moy “hilds. Mary!: minntes ~Won by Georz Y M. C. points Fla., third, A. team and the with The Cincinnati was second, with Roman Pool, Miami, aeller, Tllinois A. C.. Chicago Y A Cincinati: third. | Gymnasium | A ‘ Swimming Club. Women's Events. | _50.-YARD FREE STYLE—V | Capnon, Bas shore Swimming Cl Tone Capitol u r Loufer Smith AY—Won by _Tllinojs r entry Krueger. Cofirad "Mila, Alb John Weissmueller) : | second v A1 White San Fran- thira. Olymu attached Swimminz Cannon, Bay Sho TUNE UP FOR SERIES Camp Meade base ball teams will | tune up today for the opening of the area championship series tomorrow afternoon. The Tapk School will en tertain Washington Barracks, while the 12th Infantry, in charge of Capt Tom Brand. will ‘get limbered up in a game with 'another ‘of the post 100-YARD Warner Association: seco nd Swimmin 1. Dorothy Chiv: third. Tone Cub. Time “third. John OLD RIVALS TO CLASH ON BARRACKS’ DIAMOND ed ‘amp Ho'abird other of the ag-| tions that is to try for the title, will play in the Baltimore City Leagus today. The Gth Field Artillery will take a lay-off toflay, but tomorrow will open the series with the Tank School. Ed Brockman, president of the Bal- timore Umpires’ Association, will per- sonally supervise the officiating of all championship games. An old feud is to be rene day at Washington Ba mond when Bu Freed's tackle Mrs. Linnie Rock senjor champlons last y | contestants for the season. The game s Ever since the I the Warwicks for the cit | s half a_dozen to dia Linwe and st <hs MISS BAUER SETS MARK IN CHICAGO RIVER SWIM CHICAGO. August 1 Bauer, Northwestern University thiet Club, won the fifth annual Chicago | River swim today, breaking her own record as world champion back-stroke swimmer. "Fhe race was for one and a quarter miles, and was held under the auspices of the Chicago Daily Journal. Miss Bauer's time was 26:30, as against her old mark of 27:21. Twenty gfrls participated st of the by short pants, ri v betweer s been keen, They , with the Linwgrt than half predic 3 reverse the usual de- cision this time. HARRIS INSECTS ISSUE BLANKS IN TWO FRAYS halves of Harris Insects took both a double bill vesterday by the shut- out route, the S al's Mi be- ing swamped, 15 to 9, and the Stag Cubs taking a whitewashing, § to | McMullen turned in a no-hit run performance in the first encou ter and fanned 15 batters. T nightcap the Stags collected five h and only 11 of their sluggers went the hench on strike-outs. B: mashed out double and singles RIGGS NINE WINS GAME IN THE BANKERS’ GROUP Although Crawford, F. H. Smith Co. hurier, struck out 10 Riggs bat- ters and Jones, third baseman for the Smith nine, outclassed the-Riggs field- ers with his brilliant work at the hot corner, the Riggs National Bank nine took the Smith tossers to camp yes: | terday at the Monument grounds, to 2. v T t6 ex.. August White and Louis T , sixth ranking tenn The game was the firsa to be plaved | team in the in the Bankers' Base Ball League for | Southwestern several weeks. The Riggs team is|noon. They defeated out in front good margin in the | Leven Jester of Dal race for the city champlonship. ! winners, 6 5- Barr last ves SALE Men’s OX{OI’dS Nearly 3,000 pairs—irom our regular $5.95 and $7.50 stocks. 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