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...Myrtle Huddleston is the world's champion endurance swimmer among women. Five years ago. aged 30, she took her first swimming lesson. The next year she swam 36 miles across Catalina Channel in 20 hr., 42 min. She won the ocean championship at Del Ray Beach, Fla., in 1928. when she swam for 31 hr., 18 min. Since then. Mrs. Huddleston has been immersed in various bodies of water more frequently and for longer periods than anyone else of her sex. Most protracted was her sojourn in a Coney Island swimming pool which lasted...
...father, a cellist; her mother, a singer) Miss Hobart was educated to be a concert pianist. Instead she became a proficient harpist. At 18 she married a theatrical scene designer, is now divorced. She is domestic, practical, thrifty; makes her own clothes, cooks well. She is a competent horsewoman, swimmer, diver...
...York Athletic Club water polo (new style) team, principally consisting of the Ruddy boys (Ray, onetime famed Columbia swimmer, and his cousin Steve) each of whom scored two goals: the National Water Polo championship, beating the defending champions, the Illinois Athletic Club, 5 to 4 in an overtime game...
Married. Johnny Weissmuller, 26, one-time Olympic swimmer, amateur world record-holder in seven short and middle distance events, professional since 1929; and Roberta Leone ("Bobbe") Arnst, musicomedienne (Simple Simon, Rosalie); secretly, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after a two-week acquaintance...
Syracuse's outstanding performer was Wohl, who finished the 150-yard back stroke with a time of 1 min., 46 sec., three seconds faster than that of White, Brown swimmer, and eight seconds short of the pool record set by Kojac of Rutgers...