Word: helser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lineup: Batchelder, g; Scully, lf; Barrowes, rf; Louria, rh; Ogden, ch; Mavor (capt), Seamans, Carswell, lh; Aguirre, Dawson, lo; Chun, Blanco, li; Potter, ri; Helser, Spivak...
...champ chipped a bit of gilt off her successor's fame last week. Brenda Helser, one of Coach Jack Cody's Portland (Ore.) protégées, was the nation's swiftest woman sprint swimmer a year ago; then along came another West Coast mermaid, Ann Curtis (TIME, April 23), and snatched away her indoor and outdoor titles...
...Curtis was up to her free-style best. Swimming more skillfully the farther she swam, the San Francisco blonde won the 220-yd. final in second gear, had even less trouble taking the 440. Her rival in, the 100-yd. dash was beauteous, brunette Champion Brenda Helser. But Ann's single-mindedness paid off: she sprinted from behind the final lap and finished 18 inches ahead...
...more than was expected of her last week at Kansas City. Unbeatable in middle-distance swims, the 18-year-old San Franciscan won, as expected, the Women's National A.A.U. 400-meter, 800-meter and 1,500-meterfree-style championships. But she also defeated National Champion Brenda Helser of Portland, Ore. in the 100-meter sprint. Already it was being said that Ann Curtis, first U.S. girl to break a world record in 15 years (she has broken both the 880-yd. and 800-meter free style), is the greatest freestyler ever developed in the U.S.-perhaps anywhere...