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HOTJKTNTf SEPTEMBER F 190' and silting Jr XXtP' xpt' K 1 5’ aster How the new girl champions striving for fame like Helen Wills and Glenpa Collett have broken all — speed records in sports for women — And they are just getting started 4" iV WM¥&W' raSjv- - A AV Ate-- if ! !“ A 5 tt L T A AC eV' yyyr--r- &&$?' ’ SEMSW -- IHtJ rTsSS st§T'' ' Helene Mad non high school girl summer bro e records With monotonous clipping through the Water regularity as no gill had ever done before Babe played for thiee years on the girls’ basketball team of the Beaumont 1 hgh School down in Texas T he team lost one game And Babe collected points as easily as she collected autographs for her annual Her single game scoring record shows 76 points won in a game back in 1929 e Her scoring record averages nearly 35 points a game She passes shoots and dribbles like a male college star There is no difference in style Babe wanted to play football The shool authorities shook their heads But the girl or- ganized her own amateur eleven and took a halfback position where her punts and slants made the boys of her own age sit up and take notice Babe might have been an interscholastic halfback if it hadn’t been for the school authorities she drops to the 70s quite In addition often in golf and a low 80 is her worst She is a swimming and diving instructor She is good at archery She plays baseball She boxes And the singles championship irt tennis in the Beaumont High School belongs to her Elizabeth Robinson better known to her friends as Bettv who pressed Stella Walsh pretty hard in the century at le Helen Fill(cy a veteran trac!( star as are WOMEN a speeding up little faster gtrls go Every She stalled running year they Diana who was the talk gods a few thousand years ago back in Olympus because she knew how to run Wouldn’t have a chance with America’' champions today There is Stella Walsh for instance who could tell the goddess a few tilings about sprinting Stella knows how it is done To prove it she established three world’s sprinting records for women within five days at the women's athletic meet at Dallas Texas in There are Betty Robinson and ffelen Filkey who bettered two women's world track records in the Central Amateur Athletic Union meet at Chicago last June Helene Madison who is responsible for a new world’s free-ityseconds in the record of 1 minute 8 finals of the National A- A U swimming finals has a way of her own with her legs and arms And Babe Didrickaon can throw a javelin or a baseball with more style than Diana fvexused when she hurled a weapon after a deer on one of her mythical hunting trips No the ancient goddess simply isn't in it with the five fleet-foote- 100-met- runs she will come modest though And many have noted the quiet face just before she leaves the mark No hurry ©r tenseness at all That is because blella trusts herself “As soon as 1 get on the mark I have a feeling that the race is won already” she explains soberly “All 1 do is run then 1 guess I’ve always run i did it in high school bhe's going to take But you ought to see my kid Stella look on i her some records too!" CLARA is in li- the won race else gasjved all so easily that the coach and Eliza-- been setting records regularly ever since She only girl from the United States to come home victor when the Olympic games were held in Amsterdam No other American gul saw the Stars and Stripes was with a up go has the brrause she had won She covered the 100-yar- d dash in 12 -5 seconds but when she came back home to Chicago she entered anothrr meet and clipped a full second from her time hanging up the world's record for speed by doing the 100 in Then ball and believe did that Or Texas if seconds and basewin some more laurels Elizabeth’s older sister that pride should begin at home She is glad hers there she she went to to hurl the javelin might never have told the amateur officials was some sjieed to her kid sister Elizabeth cooks and types and does acrobatic and tap dancing She intends to train to be a physical instructor and it’s safe to bet that every girl no matter how small will have a chance to show and unassuming she may be her speed in Elizabeth Robinson’s classes Elizabeth Robinson and Helen Filkey ought to be good friends for one tiling they both live in Chicago fioih are Olympic girl stars and both have come up through the same kind of experiences as regular Misa Filkey has been in amateur athletics for several years now bhe has seen some champions come and go but she runs with the same old speed and manages to keep on cutting off seconds She bettered her own world mark hurdles of the of a second in the by Central Amateur Athletic Union meet in June by seconds making the distance in 12 Helen first took up athletics to improve her health She never cared for girls’ games She much preferred swimming tennis hockey roller skating bicycle riding and the like But even these things didn't satisfy her She started to run races jump and hurdle with the boys 80-met- She was succeeding that Tom Lck the fastest girl in the uorfd broke three world's sprint records in five but feels that her younger sister Clara whom she is training mop be an even greater star Stella Walsh dasli Miss Walsh broke tilt tape at 254 seconds fully 15 yards ahead of her nearest rival 1 secShe dashed the erntury nf the record time of I onds hard pressed by Betty Johnson of Chicago who formerly held the national title Her new broad jump world mark measured 18 feet inches 9 Mi's Walsh believes that women are better sports than men bhe herself has never had an opportunity to display the sportsmanship which goes with defeat Instead there is always a crowd of girls who "also ran” waiting to shake hands with her " I hey are so nice about it They really mean it when Polish girl they tell me they're glad I wnn" the dark-eyesays “I never feel excited I think that girls are more likely to be exerted than men are though Mavbe it's because we haven't been running as long as they have As a rule girls do make more noise about things' k lien Stella finishes her toure at business college which h' is carrying along with her job as a stenographer and her running practice she will have enough credits for high school graduation Then she is going to college She is onlv 19 you see “I'm going to study physical education and learn everything I can" she explains VUlien I'm through I'm going to teach other girh" Meantime si e has her eye on Clara for she firm v believes that the Walsh family will soon have anotlier cham- "N the 220-yar- d 1 3-- 8 J pion TLDRLD DIDRICKSON commonly known as “Babe" ‘would lead women athletes if IStella live- - hadn’t reached the goal first Babe chalked up two now world records and landed a second in a third event down in Dallas at the women's meet Babe is onlv 17 But she toi k both the javelin and Baseball throws with the skill of a veteran bhe established record figures of 133 feet and 6 inches for the javelin and 2(8 feet I01 2 inches for the baseball Babe glad that ‘he lives in the davs of peedv women Ni in’t the tv pe who could hive at on a cushion and ewed a fine team ble has to le out kicking and throwing ' 1 " J c rj 1W ri£ t S 1 vi 1 remarkably well trx So well veteran trainer of athletes and coach heard of her He organized a at Chicago University track and field team from among the girls in high schools and the recreational centers of the city the soon Helen was headlined in the papers only 15 at the time But she tumbled records along the cinder path cleaned up every wive-rshe went and asked Coach Cck what to do next For recreation she danced T his was back in 1923 People wondered how long she could keep going Luck usually changed some time they said Since Helen had started to race at 15 older er sister came to the ofpeople who never had had the wings of Mercury bound to tlseir feet thought that she might get tired pretty soon fices of Roy Davis secthe Central of Hut she hasn't You still see her name in the sport retary Amateur Athletic Union headlines and her fare as happy and pretty as ever is one day and asked for a more than at home in the press now Since there aren't registration card any oilier records in her special field for her to beat she hellers her own Then she hesitated Fdelene Madison who is another member of tbe She wanted to regu'er Betty but she was afraid jouthful “fast" set makes her best speed m water Helene who is a that family pride might high school girl from Seattle Wash established a new world s have magnified a certain record of I minute 8 seconds in the running feat of Betty’s free style finals of the National Amateur "Mv kid sister can Athletic Union at Long Beach in June run 50 yaids in six secMiss Madison has been making her splash in onds R that any good?" the world for several months she asked though She kept Babe Didrii (’sort "hood!" exclaimed huy during the indoor season by equaling the perhaps the greatmark and setting new records She cxcrs Davis "Vi hy my gosh est all round girl athlete for the 100 yards 100 meters 220 yards and baseball that’s record time" at basketball football golf 500 meeters f lizabeth was entered swimming and diving archery boxing There have been other girl athletes whoe in the Bank rrs' meet in and holds world’s reeords in tennis the laxelin and baseball throus swiftness scored of course And there will lie But she failed Chicago nrw ones cropjung up right along Records are to appear at the mark in the early heats being made only to he broken now for anv i girl champion admits that she competes Nobody knew her anyway 0 nobody gave hrr another other reason than fun They all say that thry like to feel thought thenwelv es "go” But lust as the Bankers were taking the mark for th finals Elizabeth came A very slim very shy little girl lliry smile a little sadly at tlie restricted field of competition wludi was open to their mothers and grandmothers ‘lipjved up to the starter and told him she was ready to run s I like this I he best they He looked at h'r 5he was wearing tennis shoes And she hey couldn’t enter could manage was an angel food cake for the countv fau wasn't dressed in a running suit Her clothes would ham-pv’'Nice" girls her or mavbe a pair of embroidered pillow case didn't run they were told But the B W A 0 coai h felt sorry for her It wa' But their daughter have come a long distance in th late at night The child had come char across the city to f run The coach withdrew an entry made room for Betty lat few years And they have come fast tow Migazlnc — Printed in Lt 8 A) Dallas comes from Chicago Family pride entered her in hrr first exhibition Her rise came m a few months just like Stella Walsh's Betty Robinson’s old- A eiery-bo- dy 2-- 5 d training under the chimpion other night Stella goes out to the field at her old high school in Cleveland and runs for an hour to keep in form Sometimes she goes fast and sometimes she goes slowly Just the way she happens to feel She never times herself But she has an intuition that tells her when she is going good and when she isn't But as a rule the intuition says favorable things Stella bashfully admits Miss Wahh whose Polish name of Mala'iewicz was much too long for her admirers first bloke into the running game while competing for a Polish orgimalion in her native ork Central RailCity Later when the girls of the New road offices where she works in Cleveland vvere taking up athletics she announced that she would like to run too The committee vvas impressed Slim lithe above medium height with steely muscles steady brown eyes she looked as though she had stamina and speed So they signed her up k ithin one year she wav the gieat-es- t sprinter in the world She hadn't gone into athletics as a proportion bhe had spent one year in intensive training first Every time Stella enters a meet she dadies to greater fame hen she went down to Dallas Texas she put her for the 100 and 200 vaad name at the head of the dashes and the broad jump Nhe quirdv ran off with half rf the six new woild records whuh feminine traik and field contestants set She entered ti ree events and mido a rtcord in each That's not merely good — that s per (cell the sister She Tennis shoes and signal was given Beth one-fift- le - new athletes Stella Walsh leads the list Every time she breaks a record And she has no fear that she in behind another sprinter 5 riTFIE PRETTY 100-mrl- free-styl- e comj-ctition- er |
