World's Record

Martha Norelius swam a mile last week faster than any woman had ever done it before. Stop watches clicked as she kicked hither and thither over the 55-yard course of the Biltmore Shores Yacht Club at Massapequa, L. I. establishing five world's records:

500 metres.....7 min., 38 1/5 sec. 850 metres.... 12 min., 26 3/5 sec. 1,000 metres..15 min., 39 2/5 sec. 1,500 metres..23 min., 44 3/5 sec. One mile........ 25 min., 13 2/5 sec.

In this battle for records and for the National A. A. U. one-mile championship, Miss Norelius was seldom more than a muscular forearm ahead of her teammate, Ethel McGary of the Women's Swimming Association of New York.

Next day, Miss Norelius set a new record for the 440-yard free style in 5 min., 57 2/5 sec.

Adelaide Lambert breast-stroked, back-stroked and crawled in the 300-metre medley in the record time of 4 min., 57 4/5 sec.

Misses Whitenack, Lindstrom, McGary and Norelius lowered the 880-yard relay mark to 11 min., 22 4/5 sec.

George Kojac of the New York Boys' Club set new masculine records in the 440-yard, 500-metre and 550-yard backstroke.