YOUTHFUL PRODIGY
Margery Hinton, a Manchester schoolgirl who recently won the women's 200yds breaststroke swimming championship of England, in 3min. 9 sec (after doing 3.8 in a heat), is only 14 years of age. Celia Wolstenholme, who swam second in the final, after recording 3.7 4-5 for her heat, is only two months older than the champion. Margery Hinton was the youngest competitor at the Olympic Games last year. Joyce Cooper, of the Mermaid Swimming Club, London, has established a new British A.S.A. record of 6min 43 3-ssec for 500 yds. That is 14sec inside the record which Hilda James put up six years ago.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 841, 9 December 1929, Page 13
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105YOUTHFUL PRODIGY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 841, 9 December 1929, Page 13
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