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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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con-sidered the best all round swimmer in theworld. He it was who, with the help ofJ. H. Tyers, another celebrity, is supposed 575 576 The Outing Magazine to have discovered the scissor kick. Theyadapted it to the arm stroke then used bychampion Horace Davenport, the origi-nator of the single overarm, and evolvedthe side stroke. It had a long life in Eng-land, and some of the fast men swim it tothis day. Nuttall. who still holds someworlds records, never knew any other. In America the side has had severalfamous exponents. Donald Reeder, amany-time champion and record holder, other Englishman, who gave it his name.Although he is looked upon as the inven-tor, it is no secret that he copied it fromthe Indians of South America. He didexcellent work with it and won many goodraces, but it was left to an Australian,Alfred Holmes, of Balmain, to make itfamous. He used it in establishing hisworlds record of i minute 02.2-5 secondsfor the hundred yards. At the time of its appearance the trudg-
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In the wake of the crawl. was one of them, as was Fred Wenck, whowon the mile championship twice in suc-cession with it, establishing new figures forthe distance each time. Joseph Spencer,winner of the indoor mile championshiplast February, used it in that race and sodid Brewer, the great California swimmer,in making all his records. Until a fewyears ago the side was the only racingstroke we knew of. The trudgcon, which superseded it, wasbrought to light, by one Trudgeon, an- eon was condemned as too punishing for adistance stroke. Fred Eane, a country-man of Holmess, decided that it was notand set out to prove it. This he did andto him is given credit for the improvementof the scissor kick. Previously, the upperleg was drawn up bent until the knee al-most touched the chin, thus killing abso-lutely the momentum of the body. Lanemodified it by straightening out the legand decreasing the width of the kick. Thesuccess of the innovation is vouched for by Speed Swimming 577 his records. No

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