The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-22
HANNAH MAY CLAIM
ETHELCATHERW0OD,
CANADIAN ATHLETE
Won the High lump at the Last
0Iympics; Holds Canadian
JaveIin Mark
SHE ExCELS IN ALL SPORTS
Was Born Of Canadian Parents
and Comes by Her Prov
ess Naturally
SHE ExCELS IN ALL SPORTS

The worlds champion woman high
jumper and Canadas champion all
North Dakota.
She excels in throwing the javelin,
basketball. baseball. and all other
sports in which women participate.
She is Ethel Catherwood, Saska-
toon, Sask.. who was born at Hannah,
n OAK, Of Canadian parents.
Her taste for speed comes natur-
ally. Her father was an athlete and
encouraged his children to take a
lively interest in sport. Ethel. fourth
youngest OF family OF nine, was put
in training with the rest Of the chill
dren at an early age. She lived in
Hannah but few months before her
family moved to Saskatchewan. They
took up residence in Scott. There she
received her first training which put
her OH the high road toward cham
pionships.
Trained Every Evening
Each evening when the days work
was done and the children had fin
ished their school work. they we're
taken outside and put through their
PAGES. 1t was this first back yard"
training that gets the credit for her
success abroad
The favori.e back yard sport was
sprinting. All members of the family
entered the nightly competitions.
Ethel and her brother began to show
racing form. Ethel made 100 yards
in II seconds and her brother kept
going until he won the provincial
championship for the l00-yard dash.
Ethel then concentrated on jump
ing. At eight years Of age she be-
gan to exhibit unusual ability in that
direction. About that time the chill
dren were ready for public appear
ances at the fall fairs OF Saskatche-
wan. They were duly entered in the
sports events where Ethel won con-
Sistently in the 100-yard dash. 220 and
440-yard sprints. standing broad Jump
and running high jump.
Make Sports Play
II sport places any strain on an
athlete, the game isn't worth the
struggle. Taking athletics seriously
robs the game of fun, turns play into
work and defeats the very purpose Of
sport.
In these terms Ethel Catterwood of
Saskatoon. Saskatchewan, worlds
champion woman high jumper, ex-
plains how to enjoy reaching the PIN
nacle Of sport in chosen field with
out undergoing the grueling grind to
make the grade.
This attitude gives just one side
light on the personality of one of the
most remarkable World-beaters in
present day sport; a girl who has
never known defeat: who scorns SER
ious training and who wouldn't diet
a day to accomplish her purpose; in
brief a top-notcher who literally
plays" the game and plays it for
the fun she gets out of it.
Ethel Catherwood Is 10 years old.
In August Of last year she jumped
five feet three inches at Amsterdam
for q worlds record and expects to
beat her unofficial record of five feet
four inches this winter. Next year
she will attempt to better her record
just for the fun she finds in soaring
over the bar
Miss Catherwood. however, does not
confine her sport activities to leaping
to high jump records. She is Canad-
ian woman champion javelin thrower.
Her record stands at l18 feet. She
hopes to make it 100 feet, provided she
can arrange to do SO without too
much effort. She has upon occasion
hurled the discus hundred feet and
aims to better that mark.
Basketball Marvel
Saskatoon looks upon it's Ethel as
basketball marvel. This player has
set a scoring record that has never
been approached in the home town.
She is a member Of the Bedford road
collegiate team which won two city
championships in succession and, as
a fitting climax, won the provincial
championship.
Ethel Catherwood is popular with
western hockey fans. She has taken
q leading position on girls teams in
Saskatoon, where she Is known as a
speedy skater, def with the stick and
an accurate shot.
This girl also plays regular man.
sized game Of baseball. She shifts at
the soft variety as a "sissified
spelling Of the real game; likes to
step into the box, warm up and de-
liver her well and unfavorably known
brand Of ball to the discontinue of
aspiring Babe Ruths who stand at
the pan ready to lay on it and
fan.
The athletic world marveled at this
young woman's superb showing at
Amsterdam. Sport writer's stretched
their imaginations to find a word
that might even remotely describe
her loveltness. Reporters coined new
oWer-phrases in her honor. Pho
tographers gladly worked overtime to
set pictures and still more pictures Of
this enchanting beauty as she 40.
peared at the Olympics to bow ac-
acknowledgements to the echoing plaud-
It's Of admiring hosts.
Has Striking Personality
But Ethels winning ways are not
restricted to the realm Of sport. or
beauty ct face and figure. She =
eoesecd q = striking personality,
1mprsodng the acquaintance Is st
onee = child and Z mature woman:
youth, exuberaht. expressing HE ia
txn1e ct dang. the woman quiet Of
yoooo ana llnaaG1miug Of manner:
To e3a1ld dividing her attention be-
tueen = ukuleje ana . net owl: thu
Nonnen paning studied judgment On
marriage and careers"
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