WOMEN'S SWIMMING.
THREE WORLD'S RECORDS BROKEN. UNITED MESS ASSOCIATION— BT ELXCTHIC TELEGBAi-H— COI'YBIGUT.) (Received July 23, 6.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 22. Girl swimmers broke two more world's records to-day at the National Amateur Athletic Union's championships. Katherine Rawls, in the 300 metres medley, recorded 4min 35.65 ec, compared with her own previous record of 4min 45.8 sec. The Homestead (Pennsylvania) Club, with Leonore Knight racing in the 220 yards anchor leg, won the 880 yards relay race in llmin lOsec, compared with the previous record of llmin 15 2-ssec. On Friday Eleanor Holm broke her own world's record for the 220 yards back-stroke by three-fifths of a second, covering the distance in 2min 57 l-ssec.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20915, 24 July 1933, Page 13
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