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Lady Driver
In 1934, the Automobile Club
of Europe staged its annual Con-
tinental cross-country grind. It
was a gruelling fifteen -hundred -
mile race across dangerous wind -
tag roads, which, from year to
year, had paid off in injury or
death for some .unfortunate
drivers.
That year a girl joined the
most famous drivers in Europe
to compete in this gruelling and.
dangerous automobile race. To
the surprise of all, she finished
the race, while other far more
famous male daredevils failed.
Her daring feat created a sen-
sation!
The world was even more
astonished when it learned that
this daring girl automobile rac-
jn.g driver was the most remark-
able versatile woman athlete in
all. Europe. She was an expert
horsewoman, a champion swim-
mer, a fine sprinter, winner of
three Sandiriavian tennis titles,
and holder of eighteen skiing
championships.
Nor is that all. For in time
this girl became world-famous.
She became the first girl athlete
in history to earn a million dol-
lars. Now, for the past twenty
years, she had remained one of
the most amazing sport celebri-
ties in the world. As the greatest
figure -skating champion in his-
tory, this girl has earned a for-
tune of several millions of dol-
lars. You know her as the fabu-
Fous and glamorous star of ice
and screen—Sonja Henie.
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Safer hi Action
Football has its laughs as well
as its bruises, its chuckles as
well as its sprains. There's the
story of Bob Harrington, who
who played at tackle for Detroit
University. Bob came up to the
final game of his senior year
at Detroit after having played
four seasons in high school, one
as a freshman, and three on the
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varsity eleven without ever hav-
ing been injured. Not once
through eight years of football
had he suffered even a scratch.
On this, his last day of foot-
ball, Harrington was playing
against a rough and bruising
Villanova team, In the last quar-
ter, head coach Gus Darais of
Detroit, after having watched
Bob playing his heart out, de-
cided to take him out of the
game for a few minutes to give
him a well-deserved rest. Bob,
• unmarked as usual, came off
the field and flopped on the
bench near the coach. On the
very next play, there was a wild
mix-up at the side -lines on a
punt return. One of Harring-
ton's teammates was flung into
the Detroit bench right where
Bob sat, When the tangle was
unscrambled, Harrington was
stretched out on the bottom, cold
and still. He had been kicked
in the face, two teeth were
knocked out, and gashes torn in
his lip and chin. Revived by
cold water, Harrington looked
up into the anxious eyes of his
coach.
"Please, coach," he said through
torn lips, "please put me back
in the game where it's safe!"
Game Athlete
Clarence DeMar is the grand
old man of the long-distance
marathon. In the track world,
they call him "The Shuffler."
It is a cause for wonder and
amazement when this) veteran
enters another race, bi't that is
the least note - worthy point
about his great career. For
Clarence DeMar was born with
a crooked foot He took up run-
ning as a boy merely as a form
of exercising 'are foot. A friend
who taunted him, egged him into
entering a handicap race. He
won, and got the crazy notion
that he had the makings of a
runner in him. He went on and
won a ten -mile race. Flushed
with victory, the boy with the
crooked foot resolved to become
a, great long-distance runner. So
he entered the 26 -mile Boston
Marathon, a gruelling gallop that
tried the hearts of the best long-
distahce runners in the world.
And, without experience or class,
and pitted against the best run-
ners in the world, Clarence De -
Mar startled the sports world
by finishing second!
In the thirty years that follow-
ed, Clarence DeMar ran in thirty
marathons and finished worse
than third only once. He won
practically every important ma-
arthon in the world, and seven
times has copped the famous
Boston grind. A runner born
with a crooked foot proved that
he, too, could ' walk with the
gods of sports, even if he had
to shuffle to reach the pinnacle
of fame! * * *
How He Started
As a boy, Johnny was doomed
to a life of illness. He was a
frail weakling, and the doctors
who examined him sadly shook
their heads. One of them sug-
gested that Johnny take swim-
ming exercises. But there was
one drawback to that bit of me-
dical advice. Johnny hated the
water. He ' couldn't swim a
stroke, and, for that matter,
neither could his father or
mother. Up to the age of -12,
Johnny had never been in a
larger body of water than could
be contained in a bathtub.
However, the doctor insisted.
Johnny, reluctantly, took up
swimming at the age of 13. He
started paddling in the muddy
ll,
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HE PLAYS A SWIMMING GAME—Alfred Huber of Austria looks
more like an enthusiastic swimmer than a hard -playing tennis
star. These pictures of him in flying action were taken during his
match with Great Britain's Geoffrey L. Ward in the All -England
tennis tourney at Wimbledon. Huber's gymnastics, by the way
spelled victory for him.
liquid . of the Des Plaines River.
And .he hated it, hated every
stroke he tried to take. He want-
ed to quit, but they wouldn't
let him.
Finally he learned to swim.
His family moved and Johnny
switched his paddling to Lake
Michigan. After a while, the
sport of swimming begin to ap-
peal to him. He happened to see
some really good mermen and, to
amuse himself, he began to imi-
tate their swimming strokes.
Eventually, this sick weakling
who had to take up swimming
in order to save his life became
the world's most famous swim-
mer. To this very day, whenever
the world hears of a new swim=
ming sensation, the question, "Is
he as good as Johnny?", is the
first one asked. They measure
them all against the greatest
swimmer in the world, the in-
comparable Johnny Weissmuiler.
Tice The Height
f Niagara
You can hear the thunder 7
miles away. You can see the
towers of spray 25 miles • away.
It is said to be the greatest river
wonder in the world. They call
it Mosi-oa-Tunya — the "Smoke
That Thunders" — Africa's fabu-
lous 'Victoria Falls.
For miles above, the broad
Zambesi River heaves green and
lazily. A sunbathing crocadile
slinks silently into the water at
your approach; with a splutter
• of bubbles a hippopotamus goes
down; birds of a hundred colors
chatter and call against a sky
the bluest of blues; monkeys and
baboons scamper complaining
into the trees at your footfall,
It is tranquil here.
Then at the brink of the falls,
as though whipped by a huge
mixer, the river is suddenly a
churning, leaping avalancne of
dazzling whiteness which thrusts
out and down into the mile -wide
gash across the red dust of Rho-
desia at 75,000,000 gallons a min-
ute.
It spills massively in a wall
of never-ending giant columns
some 350 feet — twice the height
of Niagara — to the chasm's bot_
tom. This is no escarpment but
a fissure in terrain which is
level above and below the falls.
The gorge zigzags and widens
till some 40 miles lower the
Zambesi regains its old pace
Hundreds -of gallons of water
funnel back up the face of the
gorge in great banks of spray
from the bottom to the brink
and then as high again. In April
the river level is 50 feet higher
than in the hottest and driest
month of November and then
the spray at tines obscures the
view from the opposite bank.
But when the spray denies
this view, it provides an alterna-
tive. For the spray that falls
again like heavy, rain nourishes
an Eden in the heart of the dry,
parched scrub that stretches for
miles.
On the bank across from the
fails is Africa's most famous
rain forest -- a rain forest made
by spray, With adjoining areas
it is like a Disneyland setting
come true, Tropical plants spurt
in tangled lushness. The under-
growth ' is ai fantasy of flowers
of every hue and +color of the
spectrum, reflected, it seems, in
the vivid rainbows by day and
the exquisite lunar bows atnight
caused by the spray.
Creepers festoon the trees
which arch up and over into
leafy rooftops on which the
spray drums continually. Drip-
ping bushes and leaves slap at
your legs. The air is heavily
scented, Everything glistens.
There is moisture everywhere
and great pools lie in your path.
The roar of the falls is constant
and you catch glimpses of the
thundering water through leafy
openings.
Everyone wears a raincoat,
hat, and boots. Despite this he
returns to his hotel drenched to
the skin, for in season it "rains"
heavily all the time.
Such verdancy is peculiarly
meaningful in Africa where wa-
ter so often means the difference
between starvation and abund-
ance.
A hundred years ago this year
Dr. Stanley Livingstone crawled
through the spray to the edge
and discovered the falls. Today
the falls are still virtually free
of commercialism and modern
intrusion. They are untouched
in the bush, with just a luxury
hotel a mile away.
So natural is it that animals
roam freely. A sign as you leave
the hotel warns blandly: "All
Wild Animals Are Dangerous."
On one visit an armed game war-
den on the road warned our
party to go carefully as a bad-
tempered elephant was crashing
through the Rain Forest. Half
an hour's flight away you can
see all the game you would wish
for.
Sometimes the animals are
more at home than the tourists.
This was the discovery made by
James Chapman, one of the early
travelers, when he observed the
spoor of elephants, rhinoceros,
buffalo, and hippopotamus on
the very edge of the gorge. For
he wrote: "It makes one's hair
stand on end to see the numer-
ous indications of their midnight
rambles on the very edge of
eternity. Here thpv come at
the dead, dark midnight hours
to drink the spray and wallow
in the mire; and on my asking a
native how it was they were not
afraid, he asked me in return:
'Didn't they grow up together?'
How ani?
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