Sports

WOMEN SWIMMERS APPEAR IN SPAULDING POOL

May, 1924
Sports
WOMEN SWIMMERS APPEAR IN SPAULDING POOL
May, 1924

Every available square inch of space in the Spaulding Pool was packed April 12 when a group of swimmers of the United States Women's Olympic Swimming Team took part ni an exhibition meet. Foremost among the visiting swimmers were Miss Aileen Riggin, world's champion woman fancy diver, Miss Helen Wainwright, Miss Virginia Whitenack, Miss Helen Meany, Miss Adelaide Lambert, and Miss Doris O'Mara. Two junior members of the team and Ann Kinally, six year old prodigy, who appeared in a new green suit which she got specially for her Hanover engagement accompanied the team. Ann was an odds on favorite from the moment she was lifted out of the bus in front of the Inn and called forth rounds of applause which nearly loosened the tiling of the pool. The summary of the events was as follows:

100-yard handicap—Lambert, first; Whitenack, second; H Meany, third. Time—l min. 6 4-5 sec.

swim (juniors')—Lindstrom, first; F. Meany, second. Time—3 min. 17 4-5 sec.

100-yard backstroke, handicap—O'Mara, first; Riggin, second. Time—l min. 20 3-5 sec.

oo > J- X llllJU. 200-yard handicap—McGary, first; Wain- wright, second. Time—2 min. 32 4-5 sec.

100-yard relay— (Lindstrom, Whitenack, O'Mara, Lambert) first; (H. Meany, McGary, Wainwright, Riggin) second. Time—s7 1-5