Show THESA THE SA THREE DANCERS BREAK DOWN OON IN LENGTHY GRIND Two Women and Man Sent to Hospital After 48 Hours of Stepping in Capital Contest W WASHINGTON April 21 The The grimmer side of ot Am Americas America's ricas rica's dancing r record cord vogue loomed up today when three victims a man and two women were sent to a hospital hos bos- pital here after collapsing at the end of or about forty eight hours hours' dancing in one of or the two contests now flow under way in the capital Miss Florence Gentry 19 one of ot the victims collapsed on an the floor of ot one of or the dance halls shortly before midnight last night and was assisted off ott exhausted and hys hys- Examining physicians or ordered ordered ordered or- or dered that she be sent to a hos hos- pital About an hour later two others Mr and Mrs Wallace Mendenhall Mendenhall Men- Men who had been dancing In Inthe inthe inthe the same contest which began Wednesday night collapsed andere and were ere sent to the tho hospital for tor ob ob- ob ser Attending physicians said they believed the three w were re suffering ring only from acute exhaustion but Indicated they intended to keep them under observation for tor any other effects of or the dance record venture Sleep was being given Its way today as a curative agent Undismayed by the result for these three participants six of the original thirty-seven thirty entries In the two contests here one of ot them a woman Mrs Elsie Weber who established In Baltimore last week what was then a record of or fifty fifty- seven hours were still on their feet reet today One of the remaining contestants is Aubrey Gill Gilbert ert a. a marine from Clarksdale Miss who was pronounced in fighting form formby formby by ay marine officers from the barracks barracks barracks bar bar- racks here who examined him last night and told him not to report until he captured the bacon Gilbert GlIbert GH- GH bert jert and his dancing partner Josef Joser former cavalryman now have the floor to themselves at the larger hall ll where twentysix twenty- twenty six started If It any of or the six are still going at midnight the dance hall hail managements managements man- man have haYe made arrangements to o transport them In buses across the he Potomac to Virginia to es escape ape the he prohibition against the he openIng opening open- open Ing ng of or dance halls on Sunday here Phonographs will be packed along In n the buses so there will be nothIng nothing noth- noth Ing ng to interrupt the marathon shuffle shuttle |