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...average swimmer in the pool of the Indoor Athletic Building assumes that the water in the pool is changed once or twice a day, as is the case in most pools. As a matter of fact it is renewed but twice during the entire year, although it is constantly running in and out of the pool. This is made possible by a complicated system of baths through which the water passes. The pool is 75 feet by 40 feet with depths of 7 1-2 and 11 1-2 feet at the ends. Its capacity is 225,000 gallons...
...attempt to discover why the great swimmers of Europe and America had been beaten, the coaches carefully studied the little men as they plowed through the water. They found that the crawl used by the Japanese was fundamentally the same as the so-called Australian crawl; but since the Japanese race is composed of small men, certain modifications had been made which were adapted to the shorter arm movememt of the swimmers. In the first place, the Japanese were completely relaxed in the water. There was no tension of any part; every muscle was loose and ready for work...
...movement also underwent a change. Instead of timing their kicks with their strokes, the Japanese paid no attention to the beat. Their legs were moved up and down as fast as possible, at the discretion of the swimmer...
Coach Ulen stressed the point that every swimmer should not be required to adopt the Japanese style in its entirety. It would be foolish, he said, to try to change the style of men who are already excellent swimmers. It is only in improving the form of members of the squad that the Japanese crawl will be used. Although this style was originally adapted to the use of small men, it is agreed that taller swimmers can use it to equal advantage...
Three and one-half miles off Diamond Head, Honolulu, a motorboat carrying "Sergeant" Kahanamoku, brother of famed swimmer "Duke" Paoa Kahanamoku, and a friend, ran out of gasoline. Kahanamoku slipped into the turbulent, sharky water, grasped the bow of the motorboat and, while the friend paddled with a board, towed it in four hours to a beach near Waikiki...