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...Csik v. Fick. In swimming, as in running, the race which attracts most attention is the 100-metre sprint. The entrant in the 100-metre who attracted most attention at Berlin last week was handsome Peter Fick of the New York Athletic Club, world recordholder, but three wily little Japanese named Yusa, Arai and Taguchi were expected to make him do his utmost...
...York Athletic Club's Peter Fick equaled one of the most formidable records in the sport by winning a preliminary heat of the 100-yd. dash in Johnny Weissmuller's record time-51 sec. And after four days of spluttering & splashing in the Lake Shore Athletic Club pool, the Amateur Athletic Union's National indoor swimming championships ended in Chicago last week with 25 new marks for the record book and at least three new girl prodigies whose faces, framed in foam and furnished with toothy smiles, will decorate this summer's rotogravure sections...
...most disheartening of the meet. Twice called back for false starts in the final, Spence showed his disgust by waiting until his four rivals were almost in the water before following them. He caught up with all but one, finished second, by a yard, to his Clubmate Peter Fick...
Swimmers. Jack Medica has been recognized as the ablest middle-distance free-style swimmer in the U. S. since Johnny Weissmuller became a cinemactor. Peter Fick, last week's free-style sprint winner, 20 years old, 185 lb., broke Weissmuller 's 100-metre record last year. Third of last week's main Olympic hopes, unknown nationally until this winter, Adolph Kiefer is a 16-year-old Chicagoan, trained by his father, onetime swimming instructor in the German Army...
...Laurence Fick 3G.Ed., on "Intelligence and Language Handicaps in the Foreign Children of Massachusetts"; Miss Mildred C. Scott 2G.Ed., on "The Need of Vocational Guidance for Immigrants With Special Reference to Specific Cases of Mal-adjustment among Educated Italians"; Mr. Frank L. Wright 1G.Ed., on "Teacher-Training in the Secondary Schools...