Florida's Mermaid.
According; to cable messages, 17-year-old Catherine Rawls, of Florida, is America’s most wonderful swimmer. Weighing less than 8.0 she on April 12 won a 100yds breakstroke race in Lake Michigan in 80 3-5, then took the 220 yds race, and finished up by winning the 300yds medley race in 4.9. Catherine Rawls is a member of the Fort Lauderdale Swimming Club,. Florida. In September last at Jones Beach, New York, over a 55’yds open water course, this wonderful girl won what is probably the world’s greatest all-round swimming test. The competition was a decathlon arranged by a New York paper, and attracted the best all-round' women swimmers in U.S.A. (Events included three freestyle, two backstroke and two breaststroke swims, 150yds medley (three strokes), rescue race, and fancy diving from a three-metre springboard. Catherine Rawls won every one of the 10 events, and scored the amazing aggregate of 8695.90 of a possible 10,000 points. Her latest feat before 'the cabled: message was to lower the American record of 2.57 3-5 for 200yds breaststroke, for a 20yds pool, to 2.52 3-5.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 301, 3 October 1935, Page 7
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181Florida's Mermaid. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 301, 3 October 1935, Page 7
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