Word: swimmer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
George Kojac, the Rutgers College swimmer who shattered his own intercollegiate record for the 100-yard free style event with a time of 53 1-5 seconds, two-fifths of a second better than his former mark, will be entered in the National Intercollegiate Association swimming meet to be held on March 28 and 29 in the new Crimson pool. In this competition more than 30 Association members will be entered...
Miss Henie is modest and her manager offered most of the facts. She speaks English fairly well, but most of the conversation was conducted in Norwegian. She likes dancing and tennis, and is a good swimmer, athletics interesting her more than studies. She is enjoying her visit to America very much and is anxious to meet her American friends, many of whom she became acquainted with during her visits to the European capitals, and she admires their sportsmanship more than anything else...
...undertow which had vanquished several men, to rescue a drowning woman. The other, with a monthly death benefit, was awarded to the widow of Edward R. Grundy. At Miami Beach. Fla., Grundy swam out to a drowning woman, clutched her, battled the undertow desperately for 20 minutes. When another swimmer reached them, Hero Grundy was dead...
...sportsfolk and natives last week strained and scrambled to get a look at 45 thickly greased women, some with sketchy swimming suits, some with none, as they dove into the cool waters of Lake Ontario, swam away around a two-mile rectangular course. Before the first lap was circled. Swimmer Vivian Lee Welsh screamed, thrashed, floundered in the water. A large lamprey eel had fastened its horny teeth into her side. Shuddering with fright, writhing with cramps, she was lifted into a Red Cross rescue boat. At the end of the first lap Martha Norelius of New York, 1928 Olympic...
Died. John Ennis, 87, of Stamford, Conn., oldtime contractor, Civil War veteran, walker, skater, swimmer, crack shot, boxer; of pneumonia; in Stamford. In 1910, he broke the transcontinental walking record, hiking from Coney Island to San Francisco in 80 days...