The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-01-14
Edith killing, Fourteen Years
Old, Rescues Child From
Drowning in Surf.
GIRL is A REAL SWIMMER
Heroine is Pupil of Hui NaIu and
Uses Duke Kahanamoku's
Stroke.
(From Monday Advortiser.J

But for the strong arms of fourteen
year.old Edith Kibling little boy
would have been drowned in the waters
off the Moana Hotel yesterday after
noon between the beach and the raft.
The saving of the boys life was dar-
ing and proved another feather in the
cap of the Hui Nalu Club, whose mem
bcrs have taught the girl to swim,
using the same stroke which made
Duke KahanamoSu the champion swim
mer of the world at Stockholm last
summer.
Edith Kibling, according to her usual
Sunday custom, donned her one-piece
bathing suit about noon aud exercised
by swimming directly to the raft, back
again and then out again. While alter
natcly resting and diving around the
raft her attention was attracted to the
efforts of hoy who had been swim
ming from the shore toward the raft
to keep himself aAoat. She saw him
20 under the water and then rise and
make extraordinary efforts to keep
himself up but down he went again.
Edith was sufficiently Yersed in the
ways of the ocean to know that the
| boy was in distress.
| She stood up, dived gracefully into
the water and then, with the strong
overland stroke and steamer-prOpeller
foot-work which has become 30 familiar
to those who have had her in training
for several months she swan swiftly
to tho spot where the boy was splash
! ing.
Her efforts on this occasion were her
best and she reached tho boy as he
was about to go under again. Sap
( porting the little fellow and handling
him with the ease of q veteran and
adult swimmer, she started for the
shore. On reaching shallower water
she stopped swimming and got foot
ing on the broken coral bottom, finally
carrying the little fellow to the sandy
beach whore he recovered shortly.
Edith then resumed her swimming
and for the remainder Of tho afternoon
padded about, went out in canoes and
spent the day as usual, becoming more
and more expert in the famous strbkes
which won the championship of the
world.
Edith Kibling is protege of the
Hui Nalu Club. She has been reeeiy.
ing her training at the hands OF the
associates of Duke KahnnamOku, who
trained Ruth Stacker and enabled her
to defeat Mrs. TeTie Desch, the cham
pion short distance swimmer of the
Pacific Coast, a few months ago. The
Hui Nalus claim they have another
coming champion in Edith Kibling.
She has a well-fOrmed, sineWy figure,
with freeaTm movement which is
graceful and powerful.
She IL familiar figure along the
beach and is 20 be seen there almost
every afternoon. She Is particularly
noticeable by her hair which is tawny
and thick aud cut Russian fashion. She
is a fayorte with all swimmers and
all witch her developing speed stroke
which they hope will some day be-
championship swing. She Is daugh.
Ter Of Purfnr Kibling Of Tho later.
Island steamer glnudine,
fAll tho good awimrerr are mem,
hrfs ~ tho iiui Aalu Club, " said w,
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herr NJ ihe club hnh an ardpnt hacker
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