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...Eleanor Holm Jarrett, perennial backstroke champion, who was appearing in a Dallas doorshow last week, were her protégées the Kompa sisters, Erna and Elizabeth. Quite as pretty, almost as fast, they finished first and second in the 220-yd. race. Katherine Rawls won the 300-metre medley for the fourth year in a row, just after being severely frightened by a bolt of lightning which struck a nearby telegraph pole. RealtorJoseph P. Day, dressed in a bathing suit, handed out prizes. It was the Amateur Athletic Union National championship swimming meet for women. When...
Eleanor Holm Jarrett is the handsomest girl athlete in the world. At 19, she was Olympic backstroke champion. Last week she took a holiday from the night club where she was appearing in the floor show with her husband, Crooner Arthur Jarrett. In group photographs of girl swimmers, Eleanor Holm Jarrett can be identified as the one with the best-looking bathing suit, the darkest fingernails, the broadest smile which, through all the vagaries of her career, has remained attractively inscribed upon her face as if it were a trademark. After playing about the pool and being photographed for three...
...remarkable than the number of records was one of the swimmers who had made them, a 17-year-old Miami high-school boy named Ralph Flanagan. Of the 27 records Flanagan had made ten for distances from 300 yd. to 1,650 yd. His closest rival, famed Eleanor Holm Jarrett had made only...
...Harvard Dental School will welcome the Freshmen at a dinner on Friday, October 8, at 8.15 o'clock. John W. Boynton, Jr. 4Dn., the Dental School representative of Phillips Brooks House, will preside. Speakers will be as follows: Patrick A. Jarrett, President of the Senior Class; George Donohue, President of the Junior class; James M. Parr, President of the Harrlet Newell Lowell Society; Leroy M. S. Miner, Dean of the Dental School, will speak...
...group of girl swimmers, Minnow Rawls proved it more conclusively than ever last week. Her time in the medley-100-yd. breaststroke, 100 yd. backstroke, 100 yd. free-style- was 4:12.2 (2.6 faster than her own world's record). The other world's record was Mrs. Jarrett's 1:10.4 in the 100-yd. backstroke, more than six seconds faster than her best previous official time. In the highboard dive, Minnow Rawls placed second to Dorothy Poynton. She beat Miss Poynton narrowly in the low-board event, after her opponent's final dive, a running...