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Show -I -l-I-I I I I I I M I 111 1 I .H-H-H-M-H-H-I-H 1 1 I'H'H M..HHIir 1 T i Make Big Money in Swimming J I If you would meet Dame Fortune face to face wear a swimming -j. f suit. T Gertrude Ederle set the style when she swam the English channel J T last summer. She was immediately deluged with theatrical and motion J. T Vs. i- -X, j T rVji J v f J. i y ' 1 'j'. Gertrude Ederle. picture contracts, and, because her fa- T titer was a butcher, she was honored by X. the meat dealer associations throughout T the country. J Then came Mrs. Millie Glide Corson, T who also swain the channel and collected y for it with vaudeville tours. T. George Young, the young Toronto j, swimmer, was next to be chosen by the -j- fickle Dame Fortune, writes II. II. Bar- J cus in the Detroit News. He swam Ihe -- Catalina island channel, received a big X cash irize and toured the country In J- vaudeville. Ijl Now we have Ernst Vierkotter. a V Genua!, swimmer, who last year made ! f the English channel swim in 12 hours and 42 minutes, lie was an X X amateur at the time and did not collect on the race. He turned pro T T recently, competing in and winning the X Toronto swim for which he received a X prize ol $HO,lXK). and in a few days he had contracts for vaudeville, motion pic- jil tures. writing hooks, advertising various j- articles, phonograph records and other X .... SI O KI. J Before he Is through, it is likely he y will clean up a quarter of a million dollars. V Vierkotter i. twenty-seven years old, stands fi feet 1 1 V2 inches in height and ; T weighed 1S2 pounds when he entered the Toronto swim. He lost 12 pounds in the race. ! The new swimming champion, the i -f) I y -.-. f & l,lll I Ernst Vierkotter. T t only one to win two international races T A has only one good eye. His rigid eye was punched out when he was t j. a child by a hat pin in the hands of bis young sister. J 'l"H"l"H"H ! 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 I I I I DH"H"N"H"H'I I I M-l-H-i-H-HH-HHH-HH4 |