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...bucktoothed, towheaded 11-year-old named Mary Hoerger won the springboard diving championship. Powerful Lenore Right of Homestead, Pa., fastest woman swimmer in the U. S.. broke two world records (mile and 880-yd. freestyle). Georgia Coleman, Olympic springboard diving champion in 1932, was on the sidelines, judging, as was the girl who swam across the English Channel in 1926, Gertrude Ederle. To take the place...
...members, a new list of champions: 100-metre free style .............Olive McKean 440-yd. free style .............Lenore Right 880-yd. free style ..............Lenore Right Mile free style ...............Lenore Right 220-yd. back stroke...........Elizabeth Rompa 220-yd. breast stroke..............Ratherine Rawls 300-metre medley .................Katherine Rawls Springboard dive................ Mary Hoerger Platform dive Dorothy Poynton Hill 300-metre medley relay ..............Women's Swimming Association 880-yd. relay. . .Washington Athletic Club
...Hoergers, Ruth (12), Mary ( 11 ), and Helen (5), Mary distinguished herself most last week. In the springboard dive, she amazed her judges with a 2½ forward somersault which Olympic Platform Champion Dorothy Poynton Hill had said the day before no woman could ever hope to execute perfectly. When the judges, adding up points for her nine other efforts, declared 74-lb. Mary Hoerger the national champion, she bugged her eyes, wagged a hand at a judge, shrilled: "Hold me. My knees are weak." In the platform dive, Ruth Hoerger finished second to blonde Dorothy Poynton Hill...
That Mary was the only Hoerger who justified headlines last week must have been a profound disappointment to her mother, who has reared her girls as if they were guppies. As soon as her children were three months old, she tossed them into the water. All three could swim before they could walk. The backyard of the Hoerger home at Miami Beach is a swimming pool. The front yard is the Atlantic Ocean. When not swimming at home, Hoergers swim in more de luxe surroundings, the famed Miami Biltmore pool, where Mrs. Hoerger is swimming instructor. Their father, Fred Hoerger...
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