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Show CROWD THRONGS LIONS' WATER CARNIVAL SKILL, THRILL, COMEDY GIVEN SPECTATORS PRIZES AWARDED TO SEVENTEEN WINNERS Sixty-three contestants entered the various events of the Lions Swimming carnival held yesterday at the pool at ten o'clock, and several hundred spectators lined the pool and perched on the vonf of the hnt.h houses to watch the fun. And there was fun for participants and spectators every moment of the two"hours tile contests lasted. Comedy Com-edy was furnished by the tub race wherein four youngsters started, three swamped within the first few yards and one plucky entrant by a miracle of equilibrium and a world of caution managed to pilot his unwieldy vessel the length of the pool to swamp in triumph at the finish line. Dan Gillies Gil-lies was the winner. The dress race also furnished amusement for the spectators. The entrants, Harry Russey, Melvin Bowman, Bow-man, Stanley Vorhees and John All-sen, All-sen, were required to swim th'e length of the pool, craw! out, don the female substitute for trowsers, swim back, put on womens' dresses, cross the pool again for hats and sprint back to the finish line in their feminine re-gala. re-gala. Harry Russey came in first, a gallant champion in skirts, bloomers and a rakish bonnet. Considerable excitement was evinced by the sprints. Howard Tanner came in first in the 25 yard free style open for men, beating Harry and Kenneth Russey, Luther Hardy of Minersville, and Jess Done. Hardy ibeat Tanner however when the two entered for the breast stroke event. . The youngsters had their opportunity opportun-ity in the boy scouts open 25 yards enle.ed by Dean Johansen, Roy Mey-3is, Mey-3is, Wally Blackburn, Bob Sherwood, Danve Roberts, Dick White, Bob Slier-wood Slier-wood winning the event. Another youngster's race for twenty five yards was won by Bob Martin over the other contestants: Dan Gillies, Owen Smith, Bill Smith, Kieth and Kendal Dutson, and Rosalie Smith. While Laurell Johnson won the race for girls under fifteen against Margaret Davis, Lillian Lil-lian McCulley and Carol Smith. Diving demonstrations included fancy spring board diving and high diving from the tower. Outstanding was the work of the six year old Harvey Har-vey Vorhees who demonstrated fourteen four-teen varieties of dives from the ten foot platform. K. Russey, Jess Done, Bornice Outzen, Out-zen, David Hardy, Mel Bowman, Beth Coleman and Jo Rogers also executed a number of high dives in good form. In the springboard stunts Catherine Mumford, Beth Coleman, Jess Done, David Hardy, Melvin Bowman and K. Russey participated. Another diversion was a pillow fight on a spar extended horizontally over the water. Earl Easton managed to hold his position over Dean Johansen, Wally Blackburn, Roy Meyers, Duane Roberts, Aquilla Robinson, Gordon Murdock and Jo Rogers. In the woman's race Helen Kinney took first honors over Catherine Mum-ford, Mum-ford, Beth Coleman, Bornice Outzen and Avanell Neuhart; while Tanner again came in first in the fifty-yard free style for men entered by L, Hardy, Jess Done, Floyd Hardy and Harry Russey. The relays for both men and women created considerable excitement. The team made up of Beth Coleman, Catherine Cath-erine Mumford and Bernice Outzen won over that of Helen Kinney, Avanell Avan-ell Neuhart and Laurel Johnson. In the men's Kenneth Russey, Harry Russey, Melvin Bowman and John Allesen won over Howard Tanner, Jess Done, Luther Hardy and Stanley Vorhees. The Winners Breast Stroke Luther Hardy. Twenty five yard freestyle Howard How-ard Tanner. Tub Race Dan Gillies. Boy Scout Race Bob Sherwood. 25 yard freestyle, ladies Helen Kinney. Kin-ney. Kids Race Hob Martin. Freestyle 25 yard, boys under 15 Harry Russey. Freestyle 25 yard, girls under 15 Laurel Johnson. 100 yard relay, men II. Russey, K. Russey, M. Bowman, J. Allsen. Dress Race If. Russey. 75 yard relay, women Beth Coleman, Cole-man, Catherine Munford, Bernice Outzen. Out-zen. Pillow Fight Earl Easton. |