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...were over, U. S. swimmers had won the 100-metre backstroke (Adolph Kiefer), 400-metre free style (Jack Medica). Japanese swimmers had won only three events (200-metre breast stroke, 1,500-metre free style, and 800-metre relay). U. S. victories by Dick Degener and Marshall Wayne in springboard and platform diving respectively clinched aquatic superiority...
...municipal pool, the aquatic tryouts turned out to be even more preposterously mismanaged than the track meet across Hell Gate at Randalls Island. Olympic divers, accustomed to having their entrance into the water greeted by large crowds with respectful applause, indignantly discovered that, in order to reach the springboard for practice, they had to stand behind long queues of merry Long Island City sports who were delighted because the opening of the new 20? pool coincided with the heat wave. Once reached, the springboard turned out to be an ordinary plank, instead of the special article called...
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...
...Long Island's Manhattan Beach, Helen Howard, granddaughter of Brooklyn Bridge-jumper Steve Brodie, did many a trim jackknife (see cut) from the high springboard in the American Athletic Union's championship trials...
Henry Fitts, diver, received a crushing blow when he banged his head on the springboard at the Columbia trials. He is back now, fully recovered...