New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17

divers and plungers of their respective
ages ever developed.
Take Helen Wainwright, for instance.
She is barely fifteen, yet she holds the
American senior championship in fancy
diving for women, as we'll as the
junior national title at 100-yard swim
ming, and she has won prizes lately in
senior free style classics, all the way
from fifty to $50 yards.
Brook No Foreign Rivalry
Her victory in the diving fixture
stamps her the international peer
among fair devotees, regardless of age,
for American women brook no foreign
rivalry at this sport; her times over
short and long courses proclaim her
supreme in swimming, for no girl of
her years has beaten her figures for
any distance.
Coming next to the fourteen-yean
old class, we find three lassies rated
foremost in their respective fields
Aileen Riggin. Gertrude sEderle and
Georgia Wilson. Aileen needs no in
PRODUCTION. She is the little wonder
diver. who caused such a sensation by
winning the Olympic springboard
championship at Antwerp last sum
mer.
But she is swimming prodigy also,
and her performances at the back stroke
and ct free style sprinting never have
been equalled by maid of her age.
Gertrude recently swan 220 yards in
. minutes seconds, the fastest time
YET returned by a girl Of fourteen.
georgia has plunged 58-foot pool in
90 seconds, which indicates ability to
40 SIXTY feet or more within the regu-
iation time limit of one minute. and the
brllllance of the feat is shown bv The
TACT that the national title for women
was captured few weeks ago with q
glide Of 602 feet. '' {"
Two Stars of Thirteen
: Two stars of thirteen who take front
rank are Florence Briscoe and Dorothy
Donohue. Florence leads at free stvje
:sprinting, though she ranks with he
pest IN fancy diving also. Dorothy en-
cells at the back stroke, a styie of
swimming at which her records stand
unbeaten. No ''a''u
- Among the twelve-year-olds Ethel
haker takes precedence in all forms of
aquatic contest, be it free style, breast
p0'A stroke swimming, plunging
or fancy diving. Her most remarkable
achievement is 100-yard swim in /
minute Is 35 seconds.
Virginia Wilson, a youngster of
eleven,s has the distinction Of being
the most proficient swimmer of her
age. She has exceptional speed and
endurance, too, but the trait which
places her ahead of all rivals is the
possession Of faultless stroke. Elk
perts declare her form wellnigh per-
feet.
Last, but not least, is ten-year-old
Kathryn Brown. Like Ethel Baker, she
is the all around champion of her class.
No girl of her age has approached her
exploits. She has figured prominently
in free style races for women, from
fifty yards to- three miles. She is
equally skilled at the breast and back
strokes and in plunging. She has de-
feated full grown champions of other
DISTRICTS in fancy diving.
The Women's Swimming Association
has been the leader in national and in
ternational water sports for the sex,
and Judging from the work of its jun
Tor mermaids this season the worlds
supremacy 1t has gained is not likely
to be threatened for years to come.
The striking success of the associa-
ton is particularly remarkable, too.
because of the way in which the or
ganization is conducted. None connect
ed with it receives remuneration. All
the teaching, all the, coaching is done
by amateur volunteers.