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...years ago broad-shouldered Helene Madison, now a cinemactress and out of amateur competition, was the No. 1 amateur girl swimmer in the U. S. Last year Lenore Kight, a pretty, dark-haired husky girl from Homestead, Pa.,* won four of Miss Madison's titles. Last week, Miss Kight successfully defended three of her championships, helped her team win the 880-yd. relay, but in the sprint which meant most ? 100-meter free style ? she came in second...
...Chicago month ago, broke the world's record for the mile in 20:57.8. smashing the records for the 350, 1,100 and 1,320-yd. distances on his way. At 19, he now holds seven world and eleven U. S. records. Son of an Italian office clerk, Swimmer Medica likes spaghetti, milk, beer. Excessively lazy, he walks as little as possible on his way to and from practice, lies dozing beside the pool until called upon to swim. Like Miss McKean, he learned young, in Seattle's Green Lake. Last week, with Al Vande Weghe, 17-year-old Paterson...
Sirs: . . . No ordinary swimmer is the new president, but the envy of many a husky young athlete, as he takes his daily swim in the University's St. Joe lake. To Notre Dame men, old and young, the new president embodies their ideal of a fine balance between mind and body...
...loaned to her Honolulu Ad Club crew after a collision had wrecked their own ship, was the smallest boat in the fleet-27 ft. over all. Biggest was Fandango, C. E. Hoffman's 85-ft. auxiliary schooner. In his crew on Manuiwa, Harold G. Dillingham had famed old swimmer Duke Puo Kahanamoku. who took up sailing two years ago. A Hawaiian prince named David Kawanakoa was in the afterguard of the 48-ft. yawl Dolphin. Youngest sailor was Cinemactor Billy Butts, 14, on Naitamba. Hiram T. Horton. retired Chicago steel tycoon, was aboard the Sift, ketch Vileehi on which...
...door leading from the men's locker rooms into the tan-tiled swimming pool of Chicago's Lake Shore Athletic Club last week said: "Ladies in the Pool; Please Wear Suits.'' The ladies in the pool were the members of that little band of champion swimmers whose wet faces and shining legs make a semi-annual fresco for newspaper sports-pages. The behavior and the appearance of the group remains the same from season to season; its personnel undergoes minute but steady variations. Helene Madison, who used to paint her fingernails crimson and swim a faster...