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John Weissmuller, ferry-finned pool-plasher of the Illinois A. C., is swimming faster than ever before. Last week he leaped into the Miramar pool, Manhattan, lalloped nine times up and down, clipped 1 1/5 sec. from his own world's record for the 220-yd. dash by traversing the distance...
...land home was at Miramar, Calif., a 10,000-acre ranch, the natural rugged beauty of which he had been careful to preserve much as he preserved his own natural strength and powers from the debility that riches and refinement often breed. He had started life as a poor boy, an English book-binder's 13th child. He had gone to the public schools of Rushville, Ill., worked on the family farm, then gone, at 18, to be his half-brothers' office boy on the Detroit Tribune for $3 a week...