Word: kight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Kojac, N. Y., a backstroke swimming race, making new world records for 440 yd. and 500 yd.; at Rutgers. Miss Lenore Kight, Homestead, Pa., a free-style swimming race, making new world records for 440 yd. and 500 yd.; at Boston...
...week. They anticipated also that the meet would produce some sort of successor to Helene Madison, who like Georgia Coleman turned professional after last year's Olympics. Nonetheless, no one except possibly her coach, Jack Scarry, foresaw the exploits of a mop-haired, broad-shouldered girl named Lenore Kight, who (like Josephine McKim and Susan Laird of the 1928 Olympic team) was entered from the Carnegie Library Athletic Club of Homestead...
...first day of the meet, Lenore Kight-who lost by a handbreadth to Helene Madison in the Olympic 400 meters -won two events. Using a free-style (crawl) stroke with even more arm-pull than Miss Madison's, she finished the 100-meter final in 1:10.8, with Olive Hatch Voight second by two feet. In the mile she had an easier time and beat Susan Robertson by 30 yd. When Helene Madison retired last year she held 16 out of the 17 of the world's free-style records up to a mile and it looked...
...Katherine ("Minnow") Rawls, 15, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: championships in lowboard diving and the 300-yd. medley swim, with a new world's record of 4:14.4; at the Women's National A. A. U. Championships, in Buffalo. Other titleholders: Lenore Kight, 100-yd., 220-yd., and 500-yd. free style; Margaret Hoffman, 100-yd. breast stroke.; Joan McSheehy, 100-yd. back stroke; Dorothy Poynton, highboard diving...
...Girl swimmers in a three-day meet sponsored by Henry L. Doherty's new Florida Year-Round Clubs, at the Miami-Biltmore pool: nine new national records. Record-breakers: minnowy Katherine Rawls of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (300 yd. medley, 300, 400 and 440 yd. breaststroke) ; pretty Lenore Kight of Homestead, Pa. (400 yd. and 500 metre free style) ; muscular Margaret Hoffman of Scranton, Pa. (200 yd., 220 yd. and 200 metre breast stroke, the last two simul-taneously...