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Show PRETTY WOMEN IN SWIMMING CONTEST Grizzled Police Officer Is Puzzled About Making a Decision and Pinally Gives Diplomatic Verdict. Patrolmen of the Salt Lake City police po-lice department, with mouths gaping and eyes widely opened as if at the call of ' Attention, ' ' yesterday refereed a unique combat. The combat was presented in the swimming pool of the public safety building, between two avowedly young and certainly beautiful women, who gave the names of Marie Lee and Claire Rochester, one a song bird and autoist of national fame, the other a dancer of ability enough to turn Broadway to an applauding mob. The battle royal was not advertised, but was well attended, proving that advertising ad-vertising is not entirely necessary when it comes to attracting a crowd of men to two petite damsels in one-piece bath-ing bath-ing suits. They vied for an hour in the cold plunge, diving, using the breast stroke,, back stroke, side stroke and most every other kind of a stroke except paralysis, with the officers, led by several sedate captains, ' applauding vigorously. ' After a strenuous morning, in which the two women tried everything known to swimmers, they asked 4'or a verdict as to which was the more graceful and the better swimmer. A gray-haired officer high in rank and also married looked at the pretty nymphs for fully five minutes in framing fram-ing his decision," which he pronounced as , follows: Maids of the Orpheum, von place me in a dilemma. Miss Rochester is the taller and probably the faster fast-er swimmer, but when it comes to fancy work, graceful diving anil a thorough knowledge of all those little lit-tle water tricks which cause married mar-ried men to neglect the luncheon hour, T think maybe Miss Lee is the but still I don't know. I hereby pronounce it a no-decision affair, a draw. Come again. The women in the pool belong to the Orpheum circuit; They arc the first women and probably the last to divide di-vide the waters of the fresh water pool of the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium. |