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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feature event of this evening's swimming meet will be the fifty-yard sprint. While Jennings is clocked at 3-5 of a second faster than Scott, it is important to remember that he will be in a strange pool, and that Scott has been reported to have brought his time down to 24 seconds. However, the Lion flash is a formidable factor under any conditions. As a schoolboy he was a champion of the New York City school teams, and has had an enviable record since he has joined the ranks of collegiate swimmers. Last year...
Leventritt will have little trouble in winning tonight, but later he will have to face some stiff competition, notably Savell, the Yale Senior who broke the pool record here last year. Vic is now turning in about 2.37 over the 200-yard distance, while Savell can do 2.33 without much trouble. -by TIME...
BAPTIST MINISTER DIES OF HEART TROUBLE AND FALLS INTO BAPTISMAL POOL...
After Rev. Lakin's message of the evening, C. Thomas Brookshire, D. D. pastor of the Church, retired to make ready for the baptismal service which he was to conduct. When he stepped into the pool he offered a most impressive dedicatory prayer and one at a time baptised two young ladies, the first retiring before the second came. The third candidate was James E. Dean, an electrical contractor of Easton, and just as Pastor Brookshire reached up his right hand to assist Dean into the pool, he fell back into the water, dead. Dean reached into the water...
Last week the White House secretariat told the correspondents and the correspondents told the country that President Roosevelt was in fine health. Under the trained eye of Lieut.-Commander Ross T. McIntire of the U. S. Naval Hospital in Washington, the President paddles in the White House swimming pool for 30 minutes practically every day between 5:30 and 6 p. m. In addition the President follows a system of calisthenics intended to re-educate his paralyzed leg muscles...