The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-01
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This And Thot

All will be harmony at Harmon's
tonight until mine host Christy
starts singing when 1 Become the
Mayor by request, of course. Mem
bers and guests of the Mercantile
Bowling league will gather at the
annual dinner to honor Metropoli-
ia Cleaners, 1945 champions, while
President Andy Juliano has denied
the rumor that hacker Bert Bowen
of the Brookside Dairy runners-up
has donated one of his prize
HORSES to the affair in case Mr..
Harmon gets a little short in the
steak department. Harry Melvin
is all set to get the Tribunes into
early contention for the City ANA
teur League flag. from early in
dications, the Hamden team, new
league entry will be quite a tough
nut for the local talent to crack at
Hamilton Park. AS expected, the
Scovill protest of two USTime girl
basketball wins was not allowed
when the protest committee met
last night and went over the eligi-
bility rules, as applying to a UST
player, SO the 1911 and 30-19 play
off victories stand. Both teams will
inset socially tonight at the IRA
banquet when awards are made to
winners and second place teams. =.
Remember Walt Alesevich the War
rem Harding basketball hotshot in
the state tournament at New Haven
two years ago? He's next seasons
University of Connecticut hoop cap
tain. Ann Curtis of San Fran
cisco is the outstanding woman ath-
lete Of the year; and the first girl
and first swimmer ever to win the
James E. Sullivan award as out
standing amateur athlete of the
year Can AAU awardD Here's som :,
really interesting info on her:
Ann Curtis, top U. S. woman
swimmer who holds II national and
two world free-style records, eats
what she likes and plenty of it
with the exception of milk, which
she won't touch for two days before
meet, according to an article in
the latest LOOK Magazine on her
amazing career. She must know
what's good for her, because n3Ver
before in the history of distaff
swimming has one girl held as many
records as the San Francisco born
A. A. U. Champion.
Tall, blond, and 10, Miss Curtis
has these formidable "firsts to her
credit: first American girl in over
decade 10 crack a world SWIM
ming mark; first girl to sweep the
four national free-styTe titles in one
meet; first girl-and first swimmer
to win the James E. Sullivan award
as the outstanding amateur athlete
Of the year Q944).
Called Americas sWiftest girl
swimmer, Ann has developed a
supercharged stroking form that
has made her the greatest free
style swimmer in the nation, if net
in the world. The Curtis crawl,
demonstrated in step by-step action
photos in the LOOK article, is a
paragon of speed and grace, perfect
for distance swimming. Combining
fine arm -and-leg synchroniZation
with complete lack of tenseness.
Ann gets the utmost in power and
distance out of every stroke. Signi-
ficant in her style is the fact that
she uses eight leg beats to one COM
plete arm cycle whereas most SWIM
mers use six.
Titanic as girl swimmers go, Ann
Curtis stands feet 10h, and weighs
16G. Two important factors key
stone her amazing power-dynamic
shoulder muscles (they would make
Charles Atlas jump out Of his sand
als) and trem ;ndous leg drive.
Her present accomplishments are
only the beginning. For Ann Curtis
is still year or two from her peak
and there is little doubt that she'll
break many additional national and
world swimming records in the years
to come