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Show AMERICAN GIRLS TO SWIM IN OLYMPIAD FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY OF GAME ':T gi I NEW YORK For the first time In i the history of the Olmyplc games American women swimmers will compete com-pete In the cime. When the American Ameri-can Olyniiii u.im arrives fourteen of America's chumplon women swlm-; swlm-; mors and divers will be among 'em Miss Ethelda RUibtrey. of Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, N. Y.. hailed as the greatest water wat-er woman the world has ever seen, heads the delegation of nymphs that will arrive for honors In Belgium.! Commencing competition about two years ago this Flatbush girl haa left a trail of shattered records behind her wherever she has entered in aquatic aqua-tic events. She has never been beaten in u scratch race. In which r.he actually finished. In a year. And In the part year ahe has won the national 50. 100. 220 and 600 jard, half-mile and mile championships as well as several national championships In the backstroke. back-stroke. With such a record there was not the slightest hesitation on thai part of the committee as to MIm Blelb-trey'a Blelb-trey'a nomination and acceptance The Brooklyn girl has shattered I world's records and substituted ones of her own making at 100 meters and at 3mj meters, and from all Indications her record-breaking streak Is going las healthy as the slugging streak of I Babe Ruth, showing no signs of abating abat-ing She has proven Invincible in all her contests, and has not even han dangerous competition from anyone laava her teammate. Miss Boyle. In the recently held try-outs Miss Blelbtrey entered two events and shit- I tered existing records In hoth. In the 300 she set n new world's record of j 4m. 31 1-Ss., a mark that should stand for years to come. She also set a WOrld'a mark for the 100 meters of1 lm. 11 3-5s, that Is Just as Immovu-1 ble. Half way around the world came a fifteen-year-old girl Mln.s Helen Moses, of the Outrlifger Canoe club, of Honolulu, to try for a place on the Olympic team. The Hawaiian girl is the best woman swimmer that has ever been produced In Aloha Land. Althought she did not win In the try-outs, try-outs, the members of the selection committee were visibly Impressed by the wonderful stroke and endurance of the girl and accordingly have placed plac-ed her In a position to go anothar quarter way around the globe. Brooklyn scores again with the selection se-lection of little AlUeen Rlggtn. the t htrf een -yea r-old metropolitan fancy diving champion Eleen has worked hirder in practice thnn any of her older rivals, and her selection was ! pleasing to all. When she appears 'In front of the august assemblage of the crowded heads of Europe at Ant-w-erp there la hound to be some laugh-I laugh-I ter because of the smallness of her suture, but when her diving and swimming ability is comprehended those who came to la ;rh will remain to cheer. MUM Helen Walnwrlght who had the distinction of defeating every woman diver of note In the United States recently at the fancy diving try-outs, will represent the W S. A. In Belgium. Little Helen Is several months older than Alllecn Rlggin and Is but a few Inches taller. The pair should make u tremendous Impression Impres-sion on their spunk alone, for both have never been known to quail at diving from any height or Into any kind of water Mrs Frances Cowells Schroth. the Pacific Coast champion, wa.i also placed on the team by a committee. Mrs. Schroth has had a very difficult time In the west n finding competition. competi-tion. In her own words, she leafs through races because she Is not hard pressed. Her sudden form reversal In ! the try-out was due to the fact that, for the first time i.he secured some better competition and was entirely upset by the change. |