Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bucktoothed, towheaded 11-year-old named Mary Hoerger won the springboard diving championship. Powerful Lenore Right of Homestead, Pa., fastest woman swimmer in the U. S.. broke two world records (mile and 880-yd. freestyle). Georgia Coleman, Olympic springboard diving champion in 1932, was on the sidelines, judging, as was the girl who swam across the English Channel in 1926, Gertrude Ederle. To take the place...
...Eleanor Holm Jarrett, perennial backstroke champion, who was appearing in a Dallas doorshow last week, were her protégées the Kompa sisters, Erna and Elizabeth. Quite as pretty, almost as fast, they finished first and second in the 220-yd. race. Katherine Rawls won the 300-metre medley for the fourth year in a row, just after being severely frightened by a bolt of lightning which struck a nearby telegraph pole. RealtorJoseph P. Day, dressed in a bathing suit, handed out prizes. It was the Amateur Athletic Union National championship swimming meet for women. When...
...swimmers are now arriving on the scene not singly but in bunches. Familiar to rotogravure readers are the Rawls sisters-Katherine (18), Evelyn (16), Dorothy (15), Peggy (10). Evelyn last week finished third in the free-style mile, fourth in the medley. Dorothy was fourth in the 220-yd. breast stroke. Peggy stayed at home. At Manhattan Beach last week, four more families of swimmers - the Hopkins twins of Miami Beach, the Gormans of Homestead, the Rompas of Manhattan and the Hoergers of Miami Beach - submerged into celebrity. The last two families at least seemed particularly likely to account...
...four events and set three world's records in a single afternoon in what experts agreed was the most amazing display of versatility in track & field history. Thereafter, the consensus was that for Owens to lose to anyone this year in either of his two best specialties?100-yd. dash and broad jump ?was unlikely. For him to lose in both was almost unthinkable. For him to lose in both to the same man was entirely out of the question. At Lincoln, Neb. last week, the 15,000 spectators at the national championship meet of the Amateur Athletic Union...
...Ohio State's Jesse Owens: three races (100-yd. and 220-yd. dashes, 220-yd. low hurdles) and the broad jump, without being forced to break a world record; at the National Collegiate Athletic Association track meet in which he made 40 of the 401 points that gave Ohio State a total second only to the 75 1/30 rolled up by Southern California's 23-man team-at Berkeley, Calif...