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Show LEGLESS BOY SWIMS. Charles F. Parvis, instructor of swimming attached to the Board of Education of Philadelphia, has accomplished accom-plished the extraordinary feat of teaching a legless boy to 3wim. The youngster is Tyson Detwiler, 14 years old, of No. 2217 East Albert street. When he was 6 years old he was nun, so badly by a freight train at a grade crossing that he has had to get along on crutches. This summer the boy told his father he wanted to learn to swim, and he was taken to the public bath house. Although the boy at first feared the ' water, Instructor Parvin soon had young Detwiler doing stunts. After his first lessons on the proper use of his arms he overcame his fear, and was then able to learn to dive. Parvis gave four lessons a week to the boy, who Las mastered several difficult strokes so effectually that he can swim at leaBt half a mile without changing his arm .movement. |