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When Roger Knapp of Melrose, Mass. was 5, he learned to skate. At 8, he learned to swim. Later, to build up his arm and shoulder muscles, he climbed ropes in his back yard. In high school he played football, in the Y. M. C. A. went in for basketball, boxing, gymnastics. Last year he began conscientious efforts to improve his strength. As the result of this diligence, Professor Frederick Rand Rogers, Dean of Student Health & Physical Education at Boston University, last week was able to declare Roger Knapp, at 17, the strongest...
...favorite-sport, you ask. That is funnay, the thing I like best to do is to go to bed. I also like to swim and ride horseback, but I do so lof to go to bed," and the youngest Velez girl bestowed a well-practised wink on her interviewer as he left to let her prepare for her next show...
Lest the fair maidens who are expected at the dance be forced to swim for it and their brawny escorts...
...been so clear from the banks; some cracks in that limb,--a pretty good sized one about a hundred and twenty-five years old, and an enormous one about twenty years old; and he knew the limb wouldn't hold. So down into the water he went to try swimming across. Sturdily, since he was a good swimmer with long staying power, he dog-paddled along. Suddenly, he looked to his right, and there rushing down on him was a great big stick of timber. In large, red letters on the side was the label, "Dictatorial Rowers of the President...
Paced by Harold Stanhope and Matthew Chrostowake, New England champion free-stylers, the Rhode Islander holders of 21 A. A. U. blue ribbons and five world records expect to swim the Crimson under from the opening...