Show i Favorite to Retain Her P E W M I Title n y I f A 9 7 t tl l. l fr G I Ii 4 i y- y w 1 s L I I V j 1 i I i I 4 iA 4 4 45 I i 4 I f I 7 i 4 i e 3 I fn I 4 i I I i n jY 4 j i I I 1 I t H- H I 1 4 I 1 1 iL I I I I r f Ji Ii 1 i jI z y 5 j I 1 1 I 4 I a. v e 4 I II I 1 j 1 a 4 i i n A 4 em w A t Vl o lf iF fI WI W- W i mk it This mag magic c eye y picture of year old Mary l Hoerger Boerger in training offers a striking reason why the slight Miami l girl is a favorite to retain her low-board low diving crown in the national A. A A. A U. U championships now in progress at New York City The back dive pil pike e as pictured here can best be explained as a back dive with the old famia knife jack jack knife turned upside down Year Sixteen Girl Beats Touted Foes to Win Title NEW EW YORK June 26 UP UP The The aquatic world Friday had had its upset unset to add to the list of form reversals which have pla plagued I sports ports recently Toni Redfern 16 year 16 arold ar- ar old Id Pelham Manor N N. N Y hi high h school chool girl who trained d to swim only last summer was the national meter 00 free style champion after a stunning triumph over a fancy field of favorites and veterans Sho She I wasn't given a chance before the meet but won the tho title Thursday inthe Inthe Inthe in the opening event of the four-day four national A. A A A. U. U women's swimming and diving championships at OrIental Oriental Ori Oil pool Manhattan Beach She Continued ou on Following Pa Page GO Year Sixteen Cops Race Continued from Preceding Page won by two feet from Mavis Mavis' Freeman Freeman Freeman Free Free- man New Nosy York in 1 minute 10 10 1 seconds Alice Bridges Bridge Mass was third and Mary Lou Petty Seattle Wash fourth The defending champion Olive McKean Seattle Wash finished sixth In a afield afield field of eight Learns Rapidly The new champion could swim only 20 yards a year ear ago Then she decided she would have a fling Inthe in inthe the he water and went to Ethelda Bleibtrey former Olympic chamion champion cham- cham pion ion for lessons She learned rapidly rap- rap rapidly idly winning her first championship champion champion- ship try ry in New York last ast December December Decem- Decem ber er and arid then with 2000 cheering her ler effort sh she he emerged me gc trIumphantly trIumphant trIumphant- ly y with her first national title Thursday Miss Redfern's victory overshadowed overshadowed overshadowed owed the fourth straight triumph over Mrs Lenore Kight Right Wingard Homestead Pa in the one-mile one free freestyle freestyle freestyle style in which she broke her own worlds world's record The he new mark is 24 mi minutes utes 7 2 10 seconds replacing the he old record of 2204 made by Mrs Wingard last year Sets V World orId Record En route to her mlle mile triumph Mrs WinwArd also set a new worlds world's record of for the 1500 meters The former mark marI was made in 1931 by Helene Madison Seattle Wash Mrs rs Wingard fi finished yards ahead of or Susan Robertson Newark N. N T. T J. J with Grace Silas Miami Bea Beach h Fla third and Harriett Vance Peoria TIt ni fourth Fridays Friday's program included the meter individual medley in which Katherine Rawls Miami Beach Fla was expected to retain her title and the yard relay championship in which the WashIngton Wash- Wash Ington A. A C. C team of Mary Lou Petty Betty Lea Doris Buckley and Olive McKean was favored to retain its laurels |