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...Francisco, called "Tiny" because he was so huge. The Mexican Revolution in 1914 lured him across the Rio Grande on Pancho Villa's side; but he heard of the war in Europe, walked 300 miles to the west coast, earned his way to Britain by winning a swimming meet in Los Angeles and later a boxing match in Harlem. He became the youngest brigadier in the British Army at 27, and during the war performed several exploits almost as fantastically courageous as the Gallipoli swim. Between wars he stayed in the Army, and in 1939 was given command...
...deceive the Turks as to where the landing was to be. He pushed a raft containing these in front of him. It was a frosty night, and he was naked and painted black. Firing from the ships was going on all around. It was a two hours' swim in pitch darkness. He did it, crawled through the scrub to listen to the talk of the enemy, who were so near that he could have shaken hands with them, lit his decoys and swam back...
...Beginning. As one of seven children of a Spokane, Wash, accountant, Bing's earliest leanings were towards having fun. Pleasant and easygoing, he liked to swim at Mission Park on hot days or whack around the Downriver golf course with his rusty, secondhand clubs. His vague goal was the law, which he leisurely studied at nearby Gonzaga University...
...yard backstroke swim: Won by H. L. Toland; second, S. D. McClellan; third, W. Smith. Time...
...yard medley swim: Won by D. F. Barnes; second, R. Willcox; third, T. Schoonmaker. Time...