AMERICAN SWIMMERS AND OLYMPIC GAMES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 334, 20 April 1928, Page 10

AMERICAN SWIMMERS AND OLYMPIC GAMES

WORLD RECORDS CUT \*7HAT th© American reps, are go- * * ing to do with the swimming events at the Olympic Games to be staged at Amsterdam this year can be gauged from this: Seven world’s swimming records were shattered by Georg© Kojac, of the Boys’ Club, New York City, and Walter Spence, of the Brooklyn Central Y.M.C.A., of Brooklyn, N.Y., during the waiter carnival held at Brooklyn recently. Kojac was responsible for four new records. He cut his own time in the 50-yard, from 0.29 to 0.2 S 2-5; did the 75-yard in 0.45 4-5, to beat Harold Kruger’s time of 0.48 1-5; made the 100-yard in 1.02 1-5, bettering Johnny Weissmuller’s 1.03 2-5 as well as his own previous and unsanctioned time of 1.02 3-5, and in the 100-metre event, made the fast time of 1.08 2-5 to wipe out James House’s record of 1.10 1-5. Spence did 150 yards in 1.48 2-5 to beat his own record of 1.50 1-5; 200 yards in 2.31, beating Eric Rademacher’s 2.35 2-5 and his own previously claimed mark of 2.31 4-5. In the 200 metres, he turned in 2.46 3-5, bettering his own previous time of 2.47 2-5, and in the furlong or eighth of a mile, 220 yards, he tied his own mark of 2.48 1-5.