Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...body of the lake. In the first hour, 40 swimmers, most of them overcome by "toe cold," were hauled out and taken to an emergency hospital. Of the three who finished, George Young, a burly young man from Toronto who four years ago won the 26-mile Catalina Island marathon, was first. His coach, Johnny Walker, and a life guard pulled him out of the water at the finish and helped him through the crowd of 100,000 at the shore. His time was 8 hr., 8 min., 26 sec. Second was William F. Goll of Manhattan, third Warren Anderson...
...Margaret Ravior, Philadelphia long-distance swimmer: the annual women's ten-mile marathon on Lake Ontario, near Toronto, which she won for the first time a year ago. Her mother, watching the race from shore, was congratulated on her daughter's ability by a famed seagoing spectator, British Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe...
...Wildwood, N.J., John Birch. 28, danced eight weeks in a dance marathon, danced into the ocean, was drowned...
These are now the best U. S. women swimmers and divers. A few years ago the best were Gertrude Ederle, who swam the British channel Aug. 6, 1926 and is now instructor at a pool near Manhattan; Martha Norelius, who won the Wrigley Marathon in 1929, the Olympic Championship in 1924 and 1928, is now married to Joseph Wright Jr., 1928 Diamond Sculls winner; Helen Wainwright who is giving diving exhibitions on the Berengaria's four-day tours; Aileen Riggin who toured Europe last winter and recently lost a job with Dobbs & Co., bankrupt haberdashers...
...most springtly spots in the show. It all happened in one of the very best of English families in an atmosphere of cricket bats, disappointed ladies and general shenanigans. This, plus Mr. O'Keefe's explanation of Mr. O'Neill's forthcoming three day drama marathon, dominated the hilarious first...