7 minutes.

On August 20th Miss A. Akroyd swam from Charlestown Bridge, Boston, to
Boston Lightship in 7 hours 12 minutes 57 seconds.

On August 27th Miss Elaine Golding swam from the Battery, New York City,
to Steeplechase Park Pier, Coney Island, a distance of about 14 miles,
in 6 hours 1 minute. Raymond Frederickson finished first in a swim of
the U.S. Volunteer Life Saving Corps from the Battery to Coney Island in
6 hours 2 minutes 30 seconds.

On September 3d Miss Adelaide Trapp swam from North Beach to St. George,
Staten Island, New York, a distance of about 14 miles, in 5 hours 10
minutes. William D. McAllister won a long-distance swim from L Street
bath, Boston, to Spectacle Island and return in 4 hours 50 minutes.

All of these swims were made with aid from tide or current.

PART IV

WATER POLO

AS A PASTIME

Water polo has become one of the most popular and fascinating of all
water sports. It can be indulged in by very good swimmers only. It
affords abundant opportunity for the exhibition of skill and endurance.

For the following account of water polo the author is indebted to a
volume from Spalding's Athletic Library, entitled "Water Polo," written
by L. de B. Handley, permission to use it having kindly been granted by
the publishers:

The value of an athletic game or contest is determined by four things:
Its physical-culture merits; its utility; its attractiveness as a
pastime, and its spectacular features.

Water polo has few equals as a means of developing the body. The
swimming alone in it would insure general and symmetrical development,
but the player wrestles besides, during a game, and every part of the
body is given its proportionate share of this gruelling work,
developing all muscles in a uniform way.

As to its utility, it is self-evident. Swimming has come to be looked
upon as a necessity, simply because it may be the means of saving life,
and in this water polo is the most practical of teachers. A player is
coached on how to free himself from every kind of a tackle, how to
assist an exhausted team-mate and how to apply the best methods of
resuscitation when any one is knocked out. Then these teachings have to
be practised frequently while the team is at work, and one becomes
proficient insensibly and as a matter of course. It is a revelation to
see an expert player handle a drowning person, and more especially a
frantic one. The rescue is performed in such an easy, matter