Byron Summers
Byron Summers, nicknamed The Flying Fish, was an American open water swimmer.
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Open Water Swimming Highlights
- He competed in the Wrigley Ocean Marathon Swim from Isthmus Cove on Catalina Island to San Pedro on the Southern California mainland on 15 January 1927, but did not finish.
- He completed a 32.3 km crossing of the Catalina Channel (CM) on 24 April 1927 in 13 hours 35 minutes.
- He completed a 45.9 km circumnavigation around Manhattan Island on 18 September 1927 in 8 hours 56 minutes at the age of 25.
- He attempted a 90-mile swim down the Sacramento River in northern California in August 1935.
Summers and his navigator established the modern course for the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim in 1927, starting at Hell’s Gate and swimming counterclockwise around the island in synchronization with the tides.
International Professional Swimmers Association
Summers was a member of the Board of Governors of the International Professional Swimmers Association formed in New York City in 1927.
International Professional Swimmers Association
The International Professional Swimmers Association was an international association organized on 21 September 1927 at the Hotel McAlpin in Manhattan, New York with its headquarters in New York City. The Association planned to issue a monthly publication to authenticate and keep records of a professional swimming events and to foster swimming throughout the world as an international sport.
Its officers included:
- William Wrigley, Jr., Honorary President
- Captain George H. Maines, Active President
- William Burgess of Dover, England, Vice President
- Elwood Hughes of Toronto, Canada, Vice President
- C. Compton of Long Beach. California, Vice President
- Lou Timson of Boston, Massachusetts, Secretary and Treasurer
Its Board of Governors consisted of:
- Edward Keating of New York
- William Erickson of New York
- Byron Summers of San Francisco
- Lottie Schoemmell of Lake George, New York
- Eva Morrison of Boston, Massachusetts
- Ernest Vierkoetter of Berlin, Germany
- Paul Chotteau of Paris, France
- William Sadlo Jr. of New York
- Ethel Hertle of New York
- Mobile Bill Jackson of Mobile, Alabama
- Leo Purcell of San Francisco, California
- May Elwell of Revere, Massachusetts
- Sam Swartz of Glens Falls, New York
- Captain T. W. Sheffield of Balboa, California
- Johnny Walker of Toronto, Canada
- Olaf Farstadt of Norway
- Ernst M. Smith of San Francisco, California
- Charles Toth of Boston, Massachusetts
- Henry Sullivan of Lowell, Massachusetts
- James Burns of New York
- Edith Hedin of Toronto, Canada
- Harold "Stubby" Kruger of Hawaii
- Georges Michel of Paris, France
- Norman Ross of Chicago, Illinois
- Clarence Ross of New York
- George Young of Toronto, Canada, Associate Member for Life
- Gertrude Ederle, Associate Member for Life
- Millie Gade Corson, Associate Member for Life
External links
- Byron Summers, competitor in the Wrigley Ocean Marathon, 1927
- International Professional Swimming Association Drew Stars
- International Professional Swimmers' Association Organized
- Marathon Swimming
- Open Water Swimming
- Swim Catalina
- Bryon Summers Around Manhattan Island
- Byron Summers To Attempt Swim Down The Sacramento River
- Bryon Summers Across The Catalina Channel
- History Of The Popular Manhattan Island Swim
- Bryon Summers Makes Progress
- What Are Swimmers Known As?
