New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1915, Page 13

» Photes 8y American P:cas Association. Ne. 5—8howe the crawl and trudgeew #iroks. The plcture shows left arm finishing ite drive at the hip; right hand, ready to “catch,” comfortably sutstretched, with hand a few inchos below the surface. Feet are perform- ing alternate up and down continucus crawl thr: No. 2—~The orawl back atroke. Ilius- tration shows position of body, with one arm dipping for a drive and the other ready to leave the water at the thigh. Legs are performing alternate up and down thrash, as used in the true crawl. No. 3.—The arm action used in the crawl, trudgeon and trudgeon crawl. ‘In this the head is twisted (not raised) to breathe in, upper arm pass- ing under the body in its drive com- fortably extended, under arm recover- ing above water, with elbows raiszd. No. 4—Fancy diving position. Pogi- tion té assume in the plain front dive on leaving the board: Spring up and out, head raised, back arched, arms flung out straight at the sides, legs outstretched and close together, feet pointed back. 10. 5,—Another view of the arm action in the trudgeon, crawl and trudgeon crawl. Left arm is pushing to full reach under water, with slight down- ward sfant, so that hand will be six or eight inches below the surface when ready for “catch.”” Right arm is completing its drive near the thigh. Mo, 6.—The American ‘crawl. Left arm is ready to drive, comfortably ex- tended, with hand six or eight inches below the surface. Right arm i about to leave the water at the end of its puil. Body forms a straight HILE it is comparatively easy to teach children the first rudiments of swim- o ming, it is an entirely different matter when it comes to a full grown person. Women learn much ~ quicker than men because they float easier. Then,' too, they have more |hand, men have greater chest capacity Se 800 o o ©%06 0:Q el 9 29 (%] line from head down. Feet are whip- ping up and down alternately in nar- row, continuous thrash. No. 7.—Crawl stroke Ilustration ; shows under arm going forward to full reach below the surface, top arm driving, swimmer inhaling by twist of the head, feet perfoPming alternate up and down continuous thrash. No. 8.—Another view of the American crawl. ' lllustration shows swimmer while right arm is driving and left arm is being brought forward above water in recovery, elbow raised, mus- cles relaxed. Feet are performing al- ternate up and down continuous thrash, courage and ar® more apt to follow the teacher’'s instructions. On the other to teach to swim, the aext hardest be- ing the man who cannot float under any circumstinces, although he may be of good wind and very active. Adults . desiring to learn and can be kept at itflongér at a time. A man .between twenty-flve. and .thir- ty-five years of age who is not used to exercige -and -has & small chest is the hardest member of the human family to swim er’s efforts, it being impossible to real- ize how one is doing it from one's own observation. This arrangement also enables a rest between trials, with the |additional advantage of having the | ]mlnd from a knowledge of what the!into the water. other is attempting to do. | " The 1and arill or the arm movement lone at a time, and then combined to uld be|form the completed stroke. stroke one who is to play teacher stand in the [and gave the world’ should pair off and criticise each oth- |contemplated movement fresh in one's [in the air to warm up before going water up to the waist, facing the side, |ough mauling in four stral |ana the breathing exercise sho practiced. Swim the crawl HO®W TO EXECVTE VATRIOVS S®WIMMING STROKES Do not get chilled. |the first division, a i’ ..e more than & body's I The pupil should stand on ject and fall forward, pulling in while going through the |shove “the body out While preparing for this fall |arms' in trent, parallel to of the water. Swing them the standing broad jump, ani the air throw them to the fore falling inhale and hold After striking the water the slide until it comes to the # own accerd. - It requires nerve to try |and for the first time some to stand on a support a few |low the surface. The “inst | stretch out the arms and ence | pupil and assist him to get |shock of the first try. This {also be taken while standing {ter. The deeper the water | of & smack to the face and |mentum to the drift. | When the face has gone | water a beginner usually hol |and blows it violently. This @ water into the eustachian they are dirty sore and swi may result. « Practice until it becomes matter to glide or drift ten feet after coming to the ® come up quickly bend the ward and throw the head ders back slightly. During {learn to open the eyes and bottom go slowly by. A sion is to blow bubbles while is still under. IS BRESNAHAN KIDDI ‘['r is possible that Roger has been kidding us, or he has adopted the Connie | tem of decrying his chanc | declared that he could mot |club as a contender, be | many weak spots that he had |able to strengthen. “We he sald, | The various stunts are to be learned, | spinion the finish will be between /the Braves and Have the Thereupon Roger went up | cham PRIVATE CAR FOR WILLARD. ‘ FAVORS EIGHTEEN MAN JESS WILLARD, the new heavy-'| THE owner of the Clevélan 1] weight champlion, traveled in a pri- | is in favor of an eigh vate car from Kansas to Omaha recent- | limit, it is reported. Ten A il | ‘been prop&ly handlea in/Chicago, and | T'don’tithi e is being"handled prop- | erly now. re that it is impossi- ble to make much impression upon him | DILLON SHOULD STICK TO HIS CLASS ACK DILLON, the Indianapolis mid- dleweight or light heavywelght star, Zimmerman’s Temper Would Be Jack would have won in a longer fight. From At that time Jack weighed 171 and The car is re- | suit him hetter, because the + " Improved by Change of Scenery Proxs by American Press Ano‘dnuon‘. ; HEINIE ZIMMERMAN. OGER BRESNAHAN recently in- ‘cted a fine on Heinie Zimmerman, star third sacker, | uttered after charging hiin with' having falled | veteran basgeball’ man connected with FAMILY. to rua out a hit in a game at Cincin- jan eastern National Zimmerman became pcevéd at|come to the front with a good word for the Chicago Cubs’ ‘nati. once and temporarily quit the team. \Zimmermean’s outbreaks have resilted | and it {sald this man, A his absence from many gam is' admittod that kiave been costly to the Cub lineup. been panned N ympire sbalting | corne anutics and his subsequent banishment by attempting to drive him. what I know of him I am of the opin- ion that he would play his head off for some one he liked and who would treutl him kindly and considerately. He ha!{ never been tried with that kind of| treatment. It has always been a kick and a cuff for him. It seems strange | that no one has thought of trying the | other course.” There may be something in what this man says. Perhaps a change of scen- ery would work wonders in Zimmer- man, but it is certain that the Cubs would never consent to part with him. They roast him daily, but they appre- ciate his value to the team, neverthe- less, and the club benefits by his bat wielding and his efforts in the infleld. ‘| POLO IMPRACTICABLE FOR COLLEGE SPORT DEVEREUX MILBURN, member of the Meadowbrook polo team, is ¢f the opinion that polo is impracti- canhle as n college sport because of the large expense involved and the fact that it would tend to' destroy college democracy among 'he students. Mil- burn voiced his opinion in 8u intarview 1ecently. Hare are his reasons for barrirg polo as a college gamo: i ‘““Whenever you hear the game dis- cussed you hear the same two criti- cisma—~Arat, that it is expensive and, second, that it is dangerous. These criticisms are fair and have to be met. “Polo is undoubtedly dangerous. So are all games where there is physical contact or. the probability of physical | contact. The dangers of polo are much exaggerated in the popular mind, main- 1y because the newspapers in thelir re- ports of zamea always make the great- erst pussible capital out of any injury that occurs 1n a game. “The great drawback to polo is that it is expensive. This fact probably prevents its being seriously considered as a college sport. Even if played on a very modest scale it is still compara- “My idea of a college game is a game in which all can compete on an equal footing. This is true of baseball, football, rowing and the other college games. It could not be true of polo. If polo could be open to all I think it would be an ideal game in the colleges, as it is a fast, hard, clean game in which a player has to use his head as scored times without nuinber for his|Well as his body.” |conduct, and seldom has a word been in his defense. However, a | THREE FIRSTABAISEMEN IN ONE league club has THREE first basemen in one family is' probably a record in baseball. On a recent Saturday Jack Leary, for- merly of thé Utica team, played first base for the St. Lotis Browns: another to believe it himseif. I know him | mémber-of the family, Paul played the personally, and he isn't a bad fellow at|same position for Waltham High all. I don't believe he has ever had a |school, and still a younger brother, Ted, 1‘ Heinie. “He' has been called a ‘nut’ so often,” “that te has probably tively expensive. | had better forget about challenging Jess Willard for a championship battle for the world’'s title. If reports are correct, Jack has been issuing a defi to Willard to fight him in a Marnthon\ battle for a side bet and purse, says Tom Andrews. Jack is a wonderful fighter in his own class, but he had better remain | there and not attempt to do the impos- | sible. The old story about a good big man and a good little man, etc., still | holds good. Jack has shown that he | can whip many of the heavyweights | and middleweights—in fact, some of them are not anxious to clash with him | —but when it comes to meeting a man | of Willard’s size' and weight it is a| different matter. Dillon whipped Gun- boat Smith in a ten round contest in Milwaukee—that is, he had the best of it on points—and, judging from the way things stood at the end of the bout, Smith 184, but 171 and 240 for Willard would be vastly different again. And any of these fighters who imagine that Jess Willard cannot hit and box a bit himself had better get the idea out of their noodles. Jim Savage is a pretty husky 200 pounder himself and has a pretty fair knowledge of the game, but Jim wants none of Willard's game in a real match. At Havana, after Jess had whipped Jack Johnson, I was talking with Jim | Savage, and he sald: “All the white hopes will be busy challenging Jess now, but, believe me, they had better | keep clear of him. If they think he is the same fellow who boxed around the east a and I, for one of the hopes, will not be seeking a match with the new cham- pion.” Boxers will do well at any time to keep to their own classes. MERICAN jockeys and trainers are having their quota of victories on the German turf in the races at Hoppe- garten, near Berlin. The necessity of resuming racing in the interest of the German thoroughbred and half bred horse breeding industries, aside from the needs of the many racing estab- 00000000000000000000000000 BONESETTER REESE WILL LOSE TRADE TO THIS PHYSICIAN. THERE‘S a doctor up in. Bos- ton town who soon will be putting Bonesetter Reese out of business if he keeps up his good ‘work. This doctor is the chap who knocked the rheumatism out of Heinie Wagner’s right elbow and put him in shape to play second base for the Red Sox after Heinie hadn’t been able to play in a single contest in 1914. The physician now has Vean Gregg’s arm under his care and reports that Gregg will be as good as ever within a month or six weeks. It was this doctor, too, who put Del Gainer into playing shape after Gainer’'s leg had put him out of the game for a long time. The M. D. revamped Gainer by removing his tonsils. Every- body lavghed at the idea of tak- ing a man's tonsils out to cure a bad leg, but since the’tonsils were yanked Gainer's leg hasn’t bothered him. I not think he has]was on first for Dean academy, 0000000000000000000000000C 0000000000000000000Q0 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Americans Are Capturing Big Stakes In Germany lishments and the employees, had to be considered, as had also the demands of the public for racing, the severe wartime notwith§tanding. On the opening days of the spring meeting there was a large attendance, numbering well up to the 10,000 mark. On the two opening days there were fourteen events carded, for which the overwhelming number of 176 horses were saddled. Of these ninety-eight ran on the first afternoon. The well known brothers, A. and C. von Wein- berg, obtained two winners in Anti- nous, by Festino, and Melba, by Fels. Both were ridden by Rastenberger, as Willie Shaw, the American jockey, had not arrived in time to accept the mounts. Another American jockey, G. Archibald, piloted Freiherr S. A. von Oppenheim’s filly Citronelle to victory in the Consul Rennen, the three-year- old daughter of Saphir and Cream Tart, winning in a canter from Count A. Heckel's Lichgatt and fifteen others. W. MacCreery, the American trainer for Freiherr von Oppenheim, followed up his win of the opening day with Citronelle by saddling the first three winners on the second day. Naturally enough it was Archibald who had the mount on each. Begin- ning by steering Invicta in the Jungfern Rennen, he then won the Gold Whip on Grandezza, a three-year-old by Troutbeck, and also brought. Diament to victory in the Edgar Rennen. Later in the day he won the Potrimpos handi- cap for another owner and was third in two other races. A youngster named Ames, who was brought to Germany by Archibald and who is statéd to be a good lightweight lad, is busily engaged in riding at ex- ly in his western trip ported to have cost $45 a day. | very tough for the Indians. IR year ago they are doped wrong | ‘Willard can hit like a mule kicking, | ercise at Hoppegarten for MacCreery's 1 X 00000000¢ |and Koch’'s stables, Photo by American Press Association Big Ed Walsh May Yet Come - Back and Help Win the Penn e BIG ED WALSH, CHICAGO fans are happy. Big Ed Walsh, the most popular player in that city, may come back and help his team win the pennant this year. | Big Ed was sent in to oppose the Ath- letics in the first game he had pitched in over a vear, and one of the largest crowds of the year saw him win, The veteran showed much of his old time kill and soeed,.. Their idol, jdown to six hits and passes, ¥ Walsh in his primé was p greatest of all spitball pitthe had an idea one time that he become a first basermian | stellar roles around the initial |the White Sox for some time, playing in this_position he clally well. .