Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-03-13 | Page 21 | Sister Acts in Sportdom on Increase

Sister Acts In On Increase By Br Press Preas Sister acts in sports are springing up In almost every branch of ot athletic athletic athletic ath ath- letic activity It Is getting so that when a 8 girl champion bobs up you youcan youcan youcan can expect find to-find a sister alongside of her or right behind her The The- Smith girls and ElIis Ayr of ot Tac Tacoma ma Wash ash hold about all alithe the women's skiing titles In this co country the country th the national downhill down down- hill bill hili slalom and combined skiing aIding championships ElUs Ayr Ellis Ayr vas was a member member- of ot the squad which represented s the U S. S in the winter Olympic sports at Garmisch-Partenkirchen Garmisch Germany A pity the winter sports program does not include a a. b beauty auty contest for these lovely sisters would be bs a cinch to battle it out for fot top honors Pretty Fancy Skaters Louise and Estelle of Buffalo finished second and fourth in the national fancy skating championships cham ham to win places on the team which competed in the winter Olympic Olympic pic plc games Pretty Elizabeth Kompa and her sister Erna have been grabbing g tho headlines on the sports pages with th their ir wholesale wrecking of backstroke swimming records at atthe tho the southern resorts Elizabeth won the national yard backstroke championship last Jut summer while Erna Ems reached her peak in the south and surpassed her sister in the matten matter matter mat mat- ter ten of breaking records German born these comely blondes aspire to membership with the Olympic swimming squad so that they can return to the land of their birth and visit the scenes of their childhood after the business of competing in the games is com corn Stella Coaches Sister Stella SteIa Walsh winner of ot the meter dash in the 1932 Olympic games is grooming her younger sister sister sister sis sis- sis sis- ter for a place on the United States Stateswomen's Stateswomen's Stateswomen's women's track and field team which will vill compete in the 1940 Olympics Miss Walsh competed for her native nathe Poland in the games at Los Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- geles after she found she could not could not get her final naturalization papers here In time lime to compete for the United States Sarah Palfrey Fabyan ranked No 3 nationally reached greater heights in the tennis world than did her sister And yet there was wasa was wasa a time when the experts freely nominated nominated nom nom- mated MIanne for the tho higher hon lion ors The iThe Fabyan girls dId very did Very wellIn well wellIn wellin In fancy diving competition Helen won the Olympic title in 1928 and earned a a. place on the 1932 team Her sister Frances Frances- was mighty on the springboard although she did not reach the perfection of ot form that tal talented Helen showed