AERONAUTICS: Mermaid

The age of 16 is usually associated with girls in an international indoor pastime rather than in outdoor sports. Miss Aileen Riggin has altered the conception by winning the all-around senior aquatic championship of the country for women. In the past season she won the fancy diving championship (from a four-foot board), swam on the winning 400-yard relay team, and was runner up in fancy diving from a ten-foot board, and the free style swim at 100, 220 and 500 yards, the back stroke at 150 yards, and was third in the 50-yard free...

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