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...meter free style: Olive McKean 1-mi. free style: Lenore Kight 3-meter springboard diving: Katherine Rawls 220-yd. backstroke: Alice Bridges 440-yd. free style : Lenore Kight 880-yd. free style : Lenore Kight 220-yd. breast stroke: Ann Govednik Platform diving: Dorothy Poynton Hill 300-meter medley: Katherine Rawls
...years ago broad-shouldered Helene Madison, now a cinemactress and out of amateur competition, was the No. 1 amateur girl swimmer in the U. S. Last year Lenore Kight, a pretty, dark-haired husky girl from Homestead, Pa.,* won four of Miss Madison's titles. Last week, Miss Kight successfully defended three of her championships, helped her team win the 880-yd. relay, but in the sprint which meant most ? 100-meter free style ? she came in second...
Almost exactly abreast as they spun into the turn after the first length of the pool, Olive McKean and Lenore Kight started back through the ruffled water for the final dash. As if a private current favored her, Miss McKean drew smoothly ahead in the last 25 meters, touched the wall a full three yards ahead. Later in the same afternoon, swimming with a precise cadence of 51 strokes per lap for 32 laps, Miss Kight consoled herself by winning the mile swim...
...sports-pages. The behavior and the appearance of the group remains the same from season to season; its personnel undergoes minute but steady variations. Helene Madison, who used to paint her fingernails crimson and swim a faster crawl than any of the others, turned professional two years ago. Lenore Kight, a dark, agile swimmer of Homestead, Pa., who took Miss Madison's place at the outdoor championships last summer by winning four championships, found her position challenged by a Seattle girl. Olive McKean, coached by the Washington Athletic Club's famed Ray Daughters. There was another new name...
...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...