The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-10-08

TINE signal was given. Tennis shoes and all. Eliza
beth won the race 80 easily that the coach and every
body else CAPPED.
She has been setting records regularly ever since. She
with = victory when the Olympic sames were held in Am
sterdam. No other American girl saw the Stars and Stripes
go up because she had won. She covered the l00-yard
dash in II IS seconds. but when she came back home
to Chicago she entered another meet and clipped q full
second from her time. hanging up the worlds record for
speed by doing the 100 in II Is seconds.
Then she went to Texas to hur! the javelin and base
ball and win some more laurels. Eilizabeths Older sister
did. Or she might never have told the amateur officials
that there was some speed to her kid sister.
Elizabeth cooks and types and does acrobatic and tap
dancing. She ineends 10 train to b a physical, instructor
and it. safe to BET that every 4! gid In. no matter how small!
her speed in Elizabeth Robinson's classes.
Elizabeth Robinson and Helen Flkey ought to be good
friends. For one thing. they both live in Chicago. Both
are Olympic girl stars and both have come up through the
same kind of experiences. as regular Jils-ofallsports.
Miss Flkey has been in amateur athletic. for several
years now. She has seen some champions come and go. but
she runs with the same old speed and manages to keep on
cutting off seconds. She bettered her own world marx
by one,6fth of . second IN the 6o-meter hurdles Of the
making the distance in II rs seconds.
Helen FIRST took up athletics to improve her health.
She never cared for girls games. She much preferred
."% tie Ike ss'i Bs. even these ss.I things ,sa'. didn't i's satisfy her heI.
She started to run races. jump. and hurdle with the boys.
She was succeeding remarkably well. too. So well
that Tom Eek. the veteran trainer Of athletes and coach
at Chicago University. heard Of her. He organized 4
track and field team from among the girls in high schools
and the recreaional centers of the city.
DRETTY soon Helen was headined IN the papers.
She was only IS at the time. But she tumbled
records along the cinder path, cleaned up every
where she went, and asked Coach Eek what to do next.
For recreation she danced.
This was back in 1923. People wondered how long
she could keep going. Luck usually changed some time.
they said. Since Helen had started to race at Is. older
people who never had had the wings Of Mercury bound
to their feet thought that she might get tired pretty soon.
But she hasn't You still see her name IN the sports
headlines and her face, a. happy and pretty a. ever. .
more than 1t home in the press now. Since there aren't
any other records IN her special field for her to beat
she beters her own.
Helene Madison. who i another member Of the
youthful fast eel. makes her best speed in Water.
Helene, who IS 1 17-yearold high school girl
L~s> from Seattle. Wash. established 4 new worlds
record Of ] minute s Is seconds in the 100
meter heestyle finals Of the National Amateur
~ Athletic Union At Long Beach. in June.
~ Mis- Madison has been making her splash in
the world for several months, though. She kept
; great busy during the indoor season BY equalng de
) exces 50-meter freestye marx and setting new records
|. got. for The 100 yards. 100 meters. 2zO yards and
boxing. 500 meeter&
:erds n There have been other girl athletes whose
cs. s~wiftness scored. Of course. And there will b
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