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Title: Swimming Scientifically Taught
A Practical Manual for Young and Old

Author: Frank Eugen Dalton and Louis C. Dalton

Release Date: August 16, 2006 [EBook #19065]

Language: English

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championship for many years by following his teachings[.]
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SWIMMING
SCIENTIFICALLY TAUGHT

[Illustration: FRANK EUGEN DALTON]

SWIMMING
SCIENTIFICALLY
TAUGHT

A PRACTICAL MANUAL FOR
YOUNG AND OLD

BY
PROF. FRANK EUGEN DALTON, P.S.A.
_Instructor in Scientific Swimming at the Dalton Swimming
School, and Originator of the Dalton Method_

AND

A CHAPTER ON ADVANCED STROKES

BY
LOUIS C. DALTON
_Of the Dalton Swimming School_

_WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS_

FIFTH EDITION

[Illustration]

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
NEW YORK AND LONDON

COPYRIGHT, 1912 AND 1918, BY
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
(_Printed in the United States of America_)
Revised Edition, Published May, 1918

Copyright under the Articles of the Copyright Convention of the
Pan-American Republics and the United States, August 11, 1910

TO MY FATHER
THE LATE CAPT. DAVIS DALTON

who swam the English Channel from Cape Grisnez near Boulogne, France, to
Folkestone, England, August 16-17, 1890; whose enthusiasm and unflagging
interest in all matters pertaining to swimming and life-saving have been
excelled by none, and who was a faithful practitioner of the methods
herein set forth, this book is affectionately dedicated by his son,

THE AUTHOR