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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arena show, are ten other kingpins of acquatics. Among the women are: Georgia Coleman. 1932 Olympic holder of the high diving title: Dorothy Peynton Hill. 1932 and 1936 Olympic diving queen: Jane Fauntz Mauske, who placed third in the Olympic high diving in 1932: Lenore Kight, holder of sixteen different world's swimming records, from one mile down to 100 yards, and Josephine McKim...
Miserable or not, the tryouts at least set a record for swimming meets by producing no swimming records of any kind. Qualified for the Olympic team were 18 familiar sports-page figures, including Crooner Eleanor Holm Jarrett (back stroke); Katherine Rawls (freestyle sprint, springboard dive), Lenore Kight Wingard (400-metre free style...
Married. Lenore Kight, 22, fastest U. S. woman swimmer; and Cleon J. Wingard, 24, Pittsburgh physical education teacher; in Wellsburg...
Engaged. Lenore Kight, 22, No. 1 U. S. free-style woman swimmer; and Cleon Wingard, 24, Johnstown, Pa. athletic instructor; in Homestead...
Since Helene Madison retired from amateur competition in 1932, Lenore Kight has been the ablest U. S. female practitioner of that super-development of the old-fashioned "crawl" which modern swimmers loosely describe as "free-style." Brunette, 22, she is a shade less effective than her rivals photographically, a shade faster than any of them in the water. She learned to swim at the athletic club of the Carnegie Library of Homestead, Pa., where famed Jack Scarry is the swimming coach. Last week Lenore Kight demonstrated more firmly than ever her current eminence in her specialty. She won free-style...