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...Blankenburg, Hollywood athletic club swimmer: The national 220-yard A. A. U. breaststroke championship in Chicago. While the crowd cheered Blankenburg, Johnny Rea, New York athletic club swimmer, beaten in the race, sank with cramps in the middle of the pool, came up, cried for help unheard, sank again. A spectator in dinner clothes, Lawrence Barr, jumped into the water, pulled...
Helene Madison swims "free-style." which means she uses that adaptation of the Australian crawl which U. S. coaches have worked out as the fastest way in which a human being can propel itself through water. A swimmer using this stroke must have long, supple legs for much of the power comes from the hips, knees and ankles. The arms are used somewhat as in the trudgeon stroke. Helene Madison's feet are narrower than those of Johnny Weissmuller, famed male freestyler, but long enough to be good paddles. She has big hands and a tall, athletic body...
Rutgers' star swimmer, Kojac, whose performances have placed him in the public eye for the last two seasons, qualified in the backstroke, his favorite, and also the 150-yard medley, the new event of the meet. The easy manner in which he finished the medley indicates that he is a dangerous rival for Harme in the final this evenings, He is generally conceded a first in the backstroke, and it is expected that he will help his teammates to a place in the 200-yard relay, the only other event in which he is entered. His team qualified...
There should be an orgy of record-breaking tonight and tomorrow evening, according to the swimmers who tried the pool for the first time yesterday and found conditions especially fast. . . An international flavor is lent to this N. C. A. A. meet by the presence of F. Munroe Bourne, McGill's star swimmer. He has scored six firsts and one second in college competition this year, and is the first Canadian to participate in an American intercollegiate meet. . . Neils Thorpe, who has been swimming coach at Minnesota ever since the sport was established there ten years ago, is banking heavily...
Married. Martha Norelius, 21, Olympic champion swimmer, holder of eleven world's records; and Joseph Wright Jr. of Toronto, champion oarsman, winner of the Diamond Sculls in 1928; at White Sulphur Springs...