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...mainstay. Born and brought up in New York, Joe Ruddy Sr. won his first swimming race when he was 14, at the Chicago World's Fair. Thirteen years later, when he had had time to master water polo and 25 other sports, Joe Ruddy married a champion swimmer named Mary Veronica Donahue, started to raise Mary, Dorothy, Joe, Ray and Donald Ruddy. Ruddy children were taken for their first swim at 11 months. At 2½ years, they were carried to the ocean, dumped into the breakers. At three, all were expert in the crawl. Girl Ruddys were trained...
...Athletic Club and the Chicago Athletic Club played the roughest water polo game on record. Pugilist Joe Choynsky, who once fought James J. Corbett on a barge in San Francisco Bay. was the Chicago coach. After four men had been carried out of the pool unconscious, Pugilist Choynsky hit Swimmer Ruddy on the jaw. Swimmer Ruddy then hit Choynsky in the eye. A riot started. Among the spectators were Mrs. Ruddy, Anna Held. Both fainted. The Amateur Athletic Union promptly dropped water polo from its schedule until a year...
...face. Her eyes change from sea green to deep blue according to her mood. She is tall and slim and carries her clothes well. Her reserved manner has a regal touch about it and she is probably at her best in court dress. She is an ardent horsewoman, automobilist, swimmer, tennis player, dancer, well trained in languages, music, painting, sculpture, cooking, sewing and domestic science...
Both the Crimson and Brown Varsity teams turned Dartmouth back by a 37-34 score. The most dangerous competitor that the Harvard forces will face is Captain Fred Lee, former Boston Boy Club swimmer who has performed brilliantly this season...
...which Princeton has the inside track and a Yale runner has collapsed; a many-muscled Princeton gymnast about to rise straight in the air toward a pair of rings; a crew race on Carnegie Lake in which Harvard's No. 4 is catching a crab; a Princeton swimmer with the enormous feet of his kind; a hockey game suggestive of a ballet; a baseball game in which a Princeton player has obviously just hit a home-run against Yale...