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Swimming
NO LONGER AN INFANT
Last year swimming Avas dubbed "Our Infant Sport" in the pages
of that wondrous "Annual," child of Sage Stansbury's brain. In
point of years this branch is still the youngest of Varsity's athletic
family, yet in the matter of reputation and record, swimming must
be rated a lusty child—in the role of an infant Hercules strangling,
not snakes, but Cornell. This comparison is one of strength alone,
not of character, for the team from Ithaca was one of the fairest
and squarest that the supporters of the Red and Black have competed
AA'itb for many moons.
It is a fact that Cincinnati is a "Swimming ToAvn"—no, not the
floods—in that it Avill give its financial support to good SAvimming
teams, Avhich was fully demonstrated by last year's swimming lucre
excess. Incidentally the team of 1912-13 was a cracker-jack, considering
the newness and general all-round hindrances. But this
year's squad has set a mark which will serve as a target, not only
for future swimming teams, but also for University of Cincinnati
athletic teams in all other branches of sport. The Senior Class
may forget many things that happened during their graduating
}'ear, but, to forget the excitement of "Olympic" Joe's Avinning of
the 220-yard swim in the Cornell meet, which gave good old U. C.
field championship over a big Eastern college for the first time in
the history of our institution—not for a long, long time.
The real sAvimmiug season started late for 1913-14, due to the
diftlculty of arranging meets with Eastern colleges. Hence the
Interclass meet, on December 18, 1913, was a full three months before
the first Intercollegiate meet. Much interest was taken in the
Interclass, both as to entries and as to the number of spectators
present, "viewing the spectacle." The Sophomores won the meet
with 27 points to the Juniors' 22. Joey Morris practically handled
the meet by himself—he took the 20-yard swim in state record
lime, the hundred as he liked it, the quarter-mile with ease and
Avon the relay for his class. Stewart, of the Seniors, corraled sec-
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