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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1931)
8 T lIK ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SM I ION .-Monist 21*. ItKtl SWIMMING FOR FAME T h f S to r y of Baltimore’s Water Stars PAULINE JACKSON W ALTER JOHNSON Scully was m h u final exam inations 1 had put lots of tune on my work- jouts and had gained the reputatio n ef model pupil, but th at did not slop my fear oi the exam ination and of not m aking n good showing C aptain Scully cam e and supervised his e x am ination I cam e out w ith an a v er age of nltiety-ilx I surely felt fine over my grade too "Ever since niy first try at the first I was nearly overcom e with shock W rigley M utalhon swim back in 1927, T his did a lot to give me courage received entry blanks for the swim I was m perfect physical condition •I w hich Inal become tin an nual affair. I had a little m oney, and m entally I So. about F ebruary. 1 received was alert. I h ad on th irteen pounds my along and got excited all over of w hite vaseline m ixed with graphite. again i>a|H*.w. the m eet. I was d e te r At 8 JO a m we hit the w ater b e m ined about and w in a prise, I fore a crowd of ittO.OOO people who although to I go (lain back t have a cent tow ard had come from everyw here to see the my expenses You is sort of m eet At 3 30 p in . after I hail gone tiling the excitem ent see. of in th e th gam e gets II m iles oi the 21-mile course, I was m your blood aiul you are luted on pulled out of the w ater I did not by the new hope of doing b etter each want to give up out the train er knew tim e better th a n I did w hat the conditions I "It is a great feeling H ardship* I were. m atter at all You get to feel "Tile w ater was 48 degrees I had don't a t somehow some way. a bteuk will! been in the w ater for nearly n th hours, ttu ee and one -half hours long come and you will t>e ofT again after er th an G eorge Young, the first itir "It p riw was June and business at the W rigley m arath o n sw im m er I went shop was getting so slack th at to the hospital for a bit of treatm ent, dress had to lay (»IT some of the girls I and left the next day for New York. they I was laid ofT I had been m aking I 1 had lost ten pounds. I went back twenty live dollars a week aiul »up- w4ln the sh#w porlUig my parent» It was pretty "All the girls and fellows were tough on me. I in g m to do sewing the day to keep tilings together proud of me and I felt happy. The by m ade fiequent trip» to C enter pape rs were kind to me I w ent back B I athing Beach to keep in trim T he I to work w ith the determ ination th at fellow» out there were very kind to I would not give up T he excitem ent me T hey helped out in m any of the whole thin g had now become a ways, giving me the me use of their part of me boats am i helping me to train ‘ Shortly a fte r C hristm as ’Rang "It s funny how it works s a t out A ll' T ang closed and I went to work as nationalities are the best of sports exam iner *n a high class dreo. shop the w ater and show fine feeling in I ín ese young women are displaying on F ifth Avenue. 1 had begun stu d y guess it m ust be th a t the w ater has Ml.se Am erica B athing B eauty (*» ing life saving at the Y W C A under an exhibit .if tug effect oil |M*op|e 1 W hat will the models be like in the Miss I>»*ola Nelson, and C aptain S cul o ften noticed people in the w a Savoy Bullroom on August 29th ly of the Red Cross Life Suving Bu- have ter and fiow th eir good »pints re leau who c*»rne every four m onths to vive and seem to become infectious. seeing me go ahead with thl.» and give the tests My m ind was m ade up Try it som e. W hen you feel to teach sw im m ing. A fter seven pretty sore etim the world in general knew I could hot milord to pay for tlie m onths of working at the dress shop take a good at swim during lhe day and taking tu> les change im m ediately. and see h you conditioning th a t every m ara th o n er m eda if he hoia** to keep sons at the ‘Y’ at night, I cam e up "W hen July rolled around It found swimm ... for my final exam ination me still w ithout funds, for the meet 1 w,u 11 k » hki physical trim Hr i !.«• cl>M w u com posed of U n p u D aniel W ashington my warn static.ned at W hile Hulphur pils T he exam ination was scheaul- Profeasor m asseur, was a good friend He gave Springs, near Saratoga. New York ed to come off a t 8 30 and I was m ore th an a little nervous, as I had me regular m assages for little or lie had laid me before he left th at heard wild tales of how strict C aptain nothing because he was interested In if l could get as far as S aratoga he W h a t it it t h a t s p u r t this m a n a n d w o m a n to b r a v r the w a ters? H o w did t h e y ge t th e i r st%rt ? How do they train? W h a t o b s ta c le s m u s t t h e y * o v e r c o m e ? W h a t a re their hobbies? W h a t k e e p s t h e m in t h e g a m e ? T h i s series of article s will a n s w e r th e s e qu estions. Miss Jackson continued "In August of the sam e year the second of liie W rigley m eets was to be held a t Toronto. C anada The m usicians o( the Hang T ang" com* pany knew th a t I had been disap pointed tii the first m eet. They knew th a t I had practiced and th a t I was determ ined to m ake this second meet They got up a collection for me Mr. M iller did not want me to leave the show, but when he found out what the m usicians had done, he and Mr Lyles helped me still further. “I was really excited. I enjoyed the trip a d the way up "As soon as I arrived I knew th at I had to see about my boat You see every sw im m er had his boat, someone to pace him . and a num ber W hen the tim e cam e for me to get m ine I got nervous and scared All those thousands of people. I suppose, just unnerved me. I asked my m anager Curtis, tc see about the boat for me He tola me he would do nothing of the kind, th a t I was to walk out when my nam e was called as if I were a queen "I w aited and Anally w hen they calk'd my nam e I walked gingerly down the aisles of the great grand stan d Im agine my com plete surprise when I got lots and lots of applause How M in-li M ax- lli<* Slyli-N (lliaiiut-tl? 1 n r" would *rc me through to C anada "I dec ided to hitch trike to S a ra toga I started out in the rarly m o rn ing on my tu p E D IT O R « NOTK Next week Mis* Jackson will tell of her p a rticip a tion In Hie third W rigley swim and how g«-neious well wishers col lected a $300 purse for tier “ N O T H I N G CAN E Q U A L T H I S B L E A C H I N G C R E A M FOR R E S U L T S ” Says Herman E. noted journalist and wife of the famous Attorney. Mrs. Moors*, " I knoii n o u u h f Qf n u n r 11 Ifh k fin ./ I I h i lf H i m . hill a C .rfn m it m u t r fiuuhir li t f n ^ t k . 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