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...Donald Horn, Northwestern University swimmer; a new world's record (2:29.8) for the 200-yd. breast stroke; in the intercollegiate meet at Yale's new Payne Whitney Gymnasium...
...bill was introduced in the Hawaiian Senate providing a $350 monthly pension for Duke Kahanamoku, oldtime Olympic swimmer, "for services rendered." Once the superintendent of a Honolulu public building, Kahanamoku was recently demoted to janitor. "That looked like an invitation to get out," said...
...were sufficiently amazed by Babe Didrikson to investigate her abilities further. She played her nth round of golf for their benefit, amazed them afresh by averaging more than 200 yd. with her drives, scoring under 90. When it was established that Babe Didrikson is also an expert swimmer, basketball player, baseball pitcher, football halfback, a proficient billiardist, a clever tumbler, a boxer and wrestler, a fencer, weight lifter and adagio dancer, she could only be described by appalled reporters as a "wonder girl." Last week, Wonder Girl Didrikson had cause for wonderment herself. The Amateur Athletic Union suspended her from...
...next morning the two Princes, coming down to the beach for a swim before leaving, saw the Signora Kraus with her mother and asked her to join them for a swim which she did. As she is an excellent swimmer she rather outpaced both the Princes much to their amusement...
...lobster may reach the length of 23-75 in, as did one caught off the New Jersey coast in 1897, weight 34 Ib. In his Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (Rome, 1555), Olaus Magnus states that between the Orkneys and the Hebrides lived lobsters large enough to squeeze a swimmer to death...