Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last year "Minnow" Rawls was A. A. U. low-board diving champion. This year she decided not to defend her diving championship, to try for a clean sweep in four swimming events, the most any contestant is allowed to enter. The three she won were 100-yd. freestyle, 300-yd. medley, 100-yd. breaststroke, breaking records in each. The one she lost was the 220-yd. freestyle, to Lenore Kight who was defending her title...
...water. She learned to swim at the athletic club of the Carnegie Library of Homestead, Pa., where famed Jack Scarry is the swimming coach. Last week Lenore Kight demonstrated more firmly than ever her current eminence in her specialty. She won free-style races at 220 and 500 yd., helped the Carnegie Library Club team take the team title, with 29 points...
Titles. To observers who hoped to see him regain his title in the 100-yd. freestyle, the performance of N. Y. A. C.'s 34-year-old Walter Spence was the most disheartening of the meet. Twice called back for false starts in the final, Spence showed his disgust by waiting until his four rivals were almost in the water before following them. He caught up with all but one, finished second, by a yard, to his Clubmate Peter Fick...
...yd. Medley was won by Chicago's Lake Shore A. C. relay team in record time. N. Y. A. C.'s Leonard Spence retained his titles at 220-yd. breast stroke and 300-yd. medley. Diving titles went to Miami's Elbert Root (low-board), Detroit's Dick Degener (high-board...
...seven Records at the meet, five were set by the University of Washington's famed junior,. Jack Medica. He swam the 220-yd. free-style in 2:10.8, fastest competitive time on record. Next evening he won the 500-yd. free style in 5:16.3, breaking the accepted world's record for that distance by 10 seconds, setting marks for 250, 300 and 400 yd. en route. Sixth important record was 1 :36.1 for the 150-yd. back stroke, made by Adolph Kiefer...