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Show SHE'S DRY LAND SAILOR ACE Michigan Girl Prize Winner in Canoe Carnival Served as Yeoman F, First Class. The standing joke that the war-time Yeomanette could not tell the difference between a schooner schoon-er and a scow loses its tang when one considers consid-ers Miss Ethelyn Meter, a so-called dry-land sailor, who won a prize in the recent canoe carnival at Belle Isle, Detroit, De-troit, Mich. Miss Meter of Benton Harbor serveu us a yeoman F, first class In the bureau of navigation at Washington, Washing-ton, where she knew all about salt water craft, at least from the pictures and records. It may have been there that she learned the fine points of driving the rocky skiffs through the water fast enough to shame the best of the gobs who competed against her in the water carnival. "I believe that a girl can paddle her own canoe, too, literally and figuratively," figura-tively," Miss Meter - ys. She was one of the organizers of the Benton Harbor post of the American Legion and in the race the Legion colors flew from her winning craft. |