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IMPROVING YOUR SWIMMING

Finding Your Best

Variety of

By Clarence A. Bush

IF you, find, after fair trial, con-

forming to the Ideal crawl stroke is awkward for your arms or too exhausting for your legs you may get comfort from the advice of a famour Cooch, Harry Hnzelhurst, mentor of clamplens and recorti breakers,

"Variations from the theoretically correct stroke," said Coach Hazel- Hurst, "may have value for you. They become faults only when they cost more in resistance and effort than they are worth." The coach, who has directed the aquatic destinies of the Chicago Athletic Association for the last dozen years, udded:

"No two stars swim alike; but this observation does not repudiate the Ident stroke.""

However, if you intend to change. you had better do it early, according to this conch, before your habits get set und before, by long practice, you get fair results in spite of your faults. If you do not, it may become too hard to change, and you may inck the incentive for the tank.

the Crawl Stroke

Improving Your Swimming-Second of y Series

"If the outstanding swimmers who vary from the model action could change their methods, approaching maro closely the perfected stroke without sacrificing any of their ease, naturalness and the joy and elná in perform- anco they would improve?' he said. "However, I have found it unwise to force the promising youth if he shows much resistance to change.”

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There is a philosophy back of this policy, which you may apply to your- self. The reasons are emotional no well as physical, he said. Swimming is" a recreation; the plunge into the strange, stimulating element puts on into a sprightly frame of emotion; we do not assume a serious attitude toward it. Few can make work out of awimming and enjoy it. So it is with most swimming stars.

Therefore, if changing the swimmer's stroke makes too auch - work, coaches find it is the best practice to depart from the ideal stroke to fit lis peculiarities. It is a compromise, na a rule. This course of netion, varying the ideal stroke to suit, is advised for'swimmers in general who want to improve.

"Variations are permissible," said Hazelhurst, "depending on the habits of the vinmer, habits which may be due to faulty ideas, but usually to physical peculiarition. The variation which may have been aped from nomo- body else without reference to their value to the one adopting them should be abandoned. In this lies the value of the ideal stroke. It nóta a standard with which the 'uwiminer may rampare himself, and he should be able to Jualify every variation"

Using the ideal stroke, the swimnier viden high in the water, reduces to a minimum the tendency to roll from side to side, makes a reduced forward rench, catches directly in front of the shoulder, bends the elbow, brings the hand in during the stroke, completes the inhale and exhale on every stroke,

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UpperAn Example of Walter Laufer's Arm 'Action. Inset- Illustrating the Powerful Arm Action That Delivers 90 Per Cent of Gertrude Ederlo's Speed.

keeps the hands equidistant, recovers the arms high out of the water, and thrashes, his legs in a narrow wake. The crawl is a speed stroke, for the youth with a surplus of emotional and physical energy. If you find on trying to conform to the ideal It is 100

want strenuous,

may you to modify it na do the middle- distance swimmers.

The exceptionally long and slender swimmer, like Johnny Weissmuller and Ralph D. Flanagan, can take fewer, strokes to go a given distance. He can and he must take fewer' strokes, because the leverage he gets is so much greater he has not the power to employ it mere rapidly with conservation of energy. Richard E. Howell was one of the greatest swimmers the United States has produced. He was a giant of a young man, with muscular to fat shoulders. These shoulders gave him his great power but also provided a handicap. He had so much flesh about the shoulder joints, he did not enjoy full freedom of arm movement; He did not, therefore, recover his arms in the orthodox style, but threw them out more horizontally. This resulted frequently in scooping water before the forward catch was secured, and made him roll to avoid this. In spite of this variation, which he could not overcome if he wanted to, he obtained good results. Gertrude Ederlo was a champion despite a smilar handicap.

Helene Madison, according to some critics, thrashed too hard with her· legs, and dipped too deep with her hands. She did not shorien her arm leverago, as much as the ideal stroko dictates, and as a result her arm action was slowed down, her shoulders dipped, enusing resistance, and the Jogs were forced to contribute to propulsion as well as to elevation and balance. However, she became the greatest woman speed and middle- distance swimmer of her day. If anybody had tried to improve her stroke greatly sho might not have been happy. Sho found a variation of the true crawl which was most adapted to her gifts, and had the strength and power, and the keen interest in competition which made it work,

The-crawl-stroke calls for smooth, continuous forward motion, which is secured by balanced action between the arms, the hands equidistant, like the blades of windmill, and theoretically the same amount of power applied a while around to each. Walter Laufer, who broke world's records for Chicago, put so much more power into his right arm stroke than into his left that his progress was not only jerky, but he went up and down in the water. Yet he got there in record time., He succeeded in spite of these faults In his stroke. Ilu might have been much better reducing this inequality hes tween the arms, yet he might have lost interest in swiniming if forced to develop an the other side.

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ND is there no halfway house be-;

A won the true of affection that,

displayed outside the privacy of a teto-a-tete in' the home,, makes the third party prickly down the spine:] and the bored Indifference between two youngish people of the opposite sex that calls forth the often-beard remark; "Of course, those Iwo must be married, because they're paying absolutely bta attention to each other?.

Women are.

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HUSBANDS

1. Do not beharo in pubite towards your wife if he were not there at all. Look: at her sif aho were Drelly woman-and not your wife.

2. Do not tell stories against her unters you have one or two compliments, too, to pay her that ring true,

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8 The first letter in five.

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9 Relative who keeps us in money. 10 In the West Indies.

House lizard found in warm climates.

3. Do let us have a little of that public 12 Not one of the flying colours.

school spirit at a party now! play the rama when the party fan't coing too well.

WIVES

Do not call your husband laughable pet me in public. Buy a dog instead).

2. Do not poist A to his att the 'courtesien he has mitrel to offer the_purnin, unil they are gone-and then, dB wisely rather than too well.

1. I nnt spoil his funny stories he interposing" when

> them for the mirenternih time and pets them wrong. Plan the meals for next day instead, and when he Jins infice laugh, woman, laugh,

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JESSIE MATTHEWS, who

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refresher for her toes.

After bathing them in warm soapy water, she dries her feet thoroughly, then massages them with cau-de cologne. Before putting on stockings, she dusts on plenty of talcum powder. This is a wise plan for anyone who' dances or walks a lot, The catt-de- cologne hardens the feet, making them lesa kenslive, whilst the talcum absorbs any inoisture and prevents the chafing Dist Gometimes producen blisters.

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43 Not grown on the village ones.

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though most of it is below. 3 In Burma..

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where such hooligana are con- eernoi.

Elephant-drivers.

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Secretary in, Singapore, has written.

Government officials will be there in

a skit on Government in which he de- force to see themselves characterised linentes the folbles of the "Heaven by a man who is one of the foremost

The sketch will bo produced civil servants who has born."

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