Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1926, Page 26

S PORTS. THE EVENI TAR, WASHINGTON, b€ SDAY, JUNE 29, 1926. SPORTS. Every One Can and Should Learn How to Swim, Says Noted Coach of Yale Teams “LOT OF FUN, GREAT BODY.- ' BUILDER AND LIFE-SAVER” Kiphuth Declares That It Is Easy for Those Who Are Timid to Overcome Fault and Become : Proficient as (The followina article from the July issue of the American Boy Magazine Kiphuth, Yale swimming coach, whose teams was written by Robert J. H. rave ruled the collegiate aquatic circl shattered many world records.) HEN you o to a big bathing beach on a hot Summer day, or to the “old swimmin® hole.” or ¥ i ud see the thousands of men and A. gymnasium, a women, boys and girls—particularly paddling and cutting through the wa :botit everybody there is knows how And yet hundreds thodght of plunging into given it the right kind of try: paddle around and kecp the there are river or there selves aiter a fashion, who will never become real swimmers because they don't take the trouble to learn properly All of these people are missing a lot body can do, and do right. More tha; amazing lot of fun, that frequently means the difference between life and death and that is an excellent body bt a number of cc 1o pass a swimming test before they When [ hear fellows suy that swim- | ing ix a thing they’ll never be able to ! or that “water has got their At or something of the kind, 1 al ways think of the case of the sopho- more at_Yale who came to me a| couple of years ago and told me he | wanted to be shown how. He was a | sirapping big fellow, and looked like | W athlete, as 1 told him, | Chat's what they all say.” he | grinned ruefully. “But I might as| well admit that I've always been raid of the water. Just the same, | t you to make me go in—push me into deep water, if you want to! He would have let me do it, if 1'd | thought it best. But that would have been just wrong. Likely he would have gotten mouth and nose full, and nd struggled and batted the W sunk once or twice, and then he'd have been more frightened than ever, I dou't mean to 1= afrald of any meuns 3 LAl and it isn't a4 thi hamed of. | Anybody can go about overcoming | such a fear, and do it just as | sfully ax this big sophomore did. | who a leges and universities have made it compulsory for students | kick, scissors kick—a forceful snap of the legs from an extended position to a closed position, much in the manner of a pair of scissors. It is not made so rapldly as the crawl kick, and it does not supply a steady forward im- pulse like the other. i A third stroke that every swimmer ought to know is the back stroke— the stroke In which Warren Kealoha, ifan boy, is so proficient. In am, proiciple and execution it much like the crawl stroke, but it s easier in many ways. Remember this, first of all—always keep your body straight in the back If you find that, with your body ght, your knees are splash- ing through the surface, you can “jack” or bend at your hips. That will keep your legs just below the surface, which is the proper place for them. The kick is' the crawl leg stroke, with the same rhythm you have learned to use Secrets of Back Stroke. The arm stroke is the same over head swing also. At the completion of the stroke your arm is at the side of your body. palm turned away from it, little finger up. Bend your elbow high, bringing the arm completely out of water; let your elbow lead as you sweep your arm backward on a line with your shoulder. Catch the water traight ahead of ¢ shoulder, just as in the crawl; don't let your hand s the mediun line of your body. Then execute the backward pull by bringing your arm around to the side in a wide sweep. Don't let it go more than 8 inches under water; if you do you'll lose power. And remember, as it approaches your side, that you must rotate yvour palm so that it will end in that position with the little finger up. When vou learn those three strokes Any Others. B stroke. es for pears and whose pupils have to a swinnning pool in a college or boys—splashing and shouting and ter, you're likely to think that just to swim. ¥ re firightened into shivers at the lake, simply they haven't are as many more who are able to atloat and do half dozen strokes, because Swinmming is a thing that every- n that—it's a thing t supplies an silder. It's for all these reasons that can get their diplomas. working along day after particular feature of a like a fellow who came to me severul years ago saying he wanted e A b N . vou will have equipment that will do to learn a back stroke, and think that | 7ot WO TR SEORTEEL B N oo o the time will never come when you |jof YOl JuSt SROUL, GO Wl stroke can make it go right; then, suddenly, | ;"o fastest in the world—as you'll like this snme shap, you will discover | ealize 1t you ever see Johuny Wels. that you've fallen into the knack of|yyjler or Bronson, the Yale man. it und that you'll improve rapidly who holds the intercoll®giate 100-yard Side Stroke Is Helpful. title, doing it—and it's excellent for The side stroke is the one generally long swims as well. The side stro used in lite saving. Most carrying fs (2 carrying suoke. and both it and i e | the back stroke are pood as “rests done with it, because it can be used | th ol g gl with only one arm f AuatainRme RO ICIBEETE L AU S indicates, it s executed with the swimmer on his side. The lower arm es u kind of circle under water, tending forward below the head as the upper arm (if unoccupled) pulls backward, and then making a bac ward sweep down through the water and to'the side of the body. There| A thing that is worth a lot of a the elbow bends, the urm doubles and | swimmer's time, though, is the right the forward extension commences |kind of out-of-water exercise. Long again. The upper arm, also circling | supple trunk and arm and leg muscles in a sweeping stroke, may leave the |are vital to the success of a swim- water for the forward stroke or re-|mer; he can do a lot to improve his main under at all times, as the swim- | work in the water if he'll set out to mer desires. Its movement is much |develop them. day on one stroke, or a Good. to bother Breast Stroke Not Most fellows 1 advis much with the brea roke. It's not of much use except as a kind of trick stroke for a speclal kind of race, and is hardly worth much time. not Start by The first thing 1 told him to do, Splashing. like that of the lower arm, except tha its backward pull is made down 1o land in fromt of the body ‘The kind of exercise he should seek 1s the thing that will build up chest, abdomen and back muscles—bending . wus simply to step into shallow ‘end of the pool and play | round in the wa for a while Ihat’s the first lessonu—splashing and | umping and twisting in sh v | water to get accustomed to the of jt. It's a rood idea to take hold | of the edge of the pool or of the pier | or anything else and to raise your feet off bottom, so that you'll be able | 1o practice the proper kick (I'll tell you about them later) without danger | of sinking. That's the way this chap I'm telling you about went at it. Next, I Instructed him to learn to breathe properly for swimming. That means breathing in through the mouth a big gulp (ordinarily in swimming vour nose is so full of water that you can't breathe through | it) and then exhaling through either | mouth or nose with the face under | water. This form of b vital in the crawl and ce strokes, and every swimmer learn ft. Tt isn’t so hard as it you'll be surprised at th which practice will make it e Remember to make it Seem and not to hurry it too much Remember, too, that you don’t need hole lake <wimm! pool to tice it A wash basin will do just as well!l Al u b to do is br in with vour fuce above its surface, then exhale after plunging your head | inte it. This kind of work gets you thoroughly accustomed to water. S must | ounds | with | ctive. » iming'’s on the Level. It's surprising how many swimmers | —some of them pretty good —make | the mistake of rolling their bodies too ch from vight to left with their | okes. The shoulders should be at 1 times parallel with the water. the vight neither higher nor lower than | the left at any time. The head shouldn’t he “buried” too far in the water, either. ['ve seen boys who | looked like submarines as they ex-| haled. their heads almost entirely | under water. The water line should | the head about at eyes and In practice it's well to ¢ your head higher than normal that helps with the arch of your body | and teaches you mnot to bury your| head too deeply Perfection of this other—isn't a thing you can get in a day. Sometimes it takes a lot of | long, hard practice to get started on the right track ut the start is | bound _1o_come time. Vou'll bel! stroke—or any in Some More! INCE it’s such adelight to slip into cool, fresh “B.V.D.”, why not give yourself the pleasure oftener? 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He can beat the other fellows he knows, nine times out of ten, if he'll study his strokes faith- fully and develop the right kind of muscle movements. And he can in- crease his pleasure in swimming a hundred times by doing it right. It's a lot more fun to plough through the water with a_space-eating, smooth- going stroke than it is to struggle along doing a dozen things wrong. Why don’t you try it? K to my sophomore again. 2 o breathe properly, and, much to his astonishment, he found that he was getting over his feeling that he'd be sure to sink the minute he got his feet off bottom. One day T looked over at bis he prac ticed faithfully d day—and he was swimming! dog paddle” that he was doing—the | stroke that is simplest and most natural for anybody. It is nothing but alternate beats of arms and legs. It's just the right thing for a begin ner, ‘because he then establishes his proper “leg rhythm” and gets ac- customed to swimming in the easie: manner. 1In the dog paddle the arms may come out of water or stay under t doesn't make much difference. When I saw that the big student had actually learned to swim, I ed teaching him strokes. Now pretty fair man in the wates and therc’s nothing he likes bettes He than his daily plunge. After a fellow has gained confi- trailing in the water beside the body, palm in. The first movement after a stroke is finished is a quick bend of the elbow which brings the arm out of water, elbow up and out to the side just a little, shoulder barely ou of water, finger tips trailing along th surface. Fxtend the arm sowly until it reaches a position straight ahead of the shoulder—it should be timed to do so just as the other arm completes. its stroke. Be mighty sure that the hand doesn’t cross the “median line” of vour body—that is, that it doesn’t extend over in front of your head. 1t should go almost exactly ahead of the shoulder, neither out nor in. Dig your hand into the water first for the “catch” of the stroke, and make the catch hard. llow it up with the whole arm, sweeping in a long, powerful stroke down through the water und to the position from which it started, at the side of your bo dence and assurance by teaching himself that dog paddle, he can't be- gin too soon to learn strokes. A few are really all a man needs; I'm going to describe the crawl, the side stroke and a back stroke. Learn the Right Rhythm. 1 was speaking of “leg rhythm. That means the number of beats or kicks vour legs make to accompany each arm stroke. Swimmers develop a natural rhythm, usually of four or six beats to the stroke. The leg stroke is a whip of the whole leg from the hip down, with almost no bend of the knee and with a pointed toe. The idea, of course, is to force the water away from you by the drive of the leg, and to make this drive continuous; that is why the beat must be fairly rapid and why the legs must alternate, one always on the up stroke, one on the down Trunk muscles are used in the leg stroke, particularly those in the al- domen. Proper use of them will bring your body naturally inta, a curved position, back in concave arch. That is the proper swimming position. Every swimmer has a natural tendency to accent a particu- lax beat of his leg stroke; it's a ten- dency that should be overcome as much as possible, however. In the traight crawl stroke there is no ac- cent. In the “trudgeon crawl” there may be a single beat as the zrm which brings the face out of water to inhale recovers, or a double beat, one with the recovery of each arm. | Now the arms. Every chap knows | that the wl is characteri by the | long, easy sweep of one arm after | the other above the water, ahead of the body, down through the water to the side of the body, out and up again. | It sounds and looks simple; but there are a dozen possible faults m stroke. Tled closely breathing—you've ustomed to breath- |ing out under water. You'll fall into {a habit of always inhaling on one side or the other—that always with the right arm out of water or always with the left. If you inhale as the right arm recovers, you'll do so by turning your head to the right and gulping fn through your mouth; then you'll exhale as the left arm recovers, { blowing the air forcibly from your lungs with your face submerged | | with |alres - .- i PRINCE IS ARCHERY STAR. By the Associated Pro Prince Sumi, fourth son of the E | peror and Empress of Japan, who is 11 years old, i3 becoming a juvenile archery champion. 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