Wi8SWBPM! i?PJ rfri, " J? K, v- ... 1 &' a te no -S EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1922 - J .3i ,, THREE IN ELEANOR FAMILY SWIM THEIR IVAY TO FAME; HL CHAMPION ABHORS MODERN GIRL wfPffP!p Helder of Middle -Atlantic States Title Says JVemen Should. Engage in Busi ness and Sports but Draws the Line at Politics BUSHEL OF MEDALS, CUPS AND HONORS GALORE, ARE HEAPED UPON SWIMMERS il .ii vi J. m Parental Objections te Exhibitions Over come by Girl Who Gees' te Antwert for Women's Olympic Games and Leaves sick Bed te Compete WHATEVER it was that Father Mendel is said te have discovered as he sat en his garden steel watching beans sprout and peas blossom, he could doubtless preve it by the Uhl family of Lansdewnc. A family of homezygotes. If you don't knew what that means that's your lookout. Anyhow, it doesn't matter much and it has only a very abstruse rcla rcla Hen te swimming championships and te athletic prowess generally. But the point for the moment is that here is a family of five-father three sons and a daughter who, save for the. points of age and sex, can hardly be told from one another. They are of the same approximate height and of the same prodigious bodily development. They have the same matty blonde hair, the same distinct cephalic measurements, the same passive features and they share the same remnrkablc psychology. Beeks bore them. Conversation for its own sake distresses them. Philosophy appalls them. Pedantry finds them impregnable. They dislike Charlie Chaplin. They piofeundly pity women who cat candy between meals, girls who fear te go in the water, children nfraid te climb trees, and young men who make a haunt of pool rooms. They admire Tem Mix, great sol diers, musicians, football heroes, directors of musical comedy chor uses and their own competitors. They arc fend of arithmetic and of business. Drama leaves them cold and they say se. They have never cut verses from a magazine and pasted them in .-crapboeks. They have never looked at the moon and made three wishes. They have never had themselves rsycheanlyzed. They have never wanted te be emperors, anthropelo sists, celebrated chefs, cartoenir.U, social leaders or foreign mission missien uies. 'Rey Brings Championship Inte the Uhl Family Such is the family of Uhls, with wnem the Middle Atlantic swimming championship has been mere or less (Miaslic since 1918, when Raymond "il, Uien a .sixteen-year old school boy, took it at the indoor meet in the West Philadelphia Y. M. C. A. The trlerv is morn nr lnsa inci. fiental, and even somewhat acei-f Chester High Scheel. ie owed it te ilenf.il 'PU-a : i ..-.,.. I l.:.. ..... i ... i. rrui .. ...,,. i nctl is 10 say Iliac II IS net' '" "" wnuei iu i.ue u. i 11.1 - championship but swimming itself I Persistently pressed upon him. until that concerns the L'hls Net te swim I '"' ,,Pt'',I"0 r""st ,he champion of Uela- becnusc it gets you into a race and! wn"f'"mi,y' 'l";1 ' n" 'l',0 1re""I,1,? Mm ui.. .i .. i i i letind about nml finulh of nil tin' .Mm- u win it, and somebody gives you ' ,,. ... ,. Slna B cup and somebody else puts your name in the paper, but te swim be-1 Eleaner llcran te SlVllll he liked te swim, just as he liked te cat and, without thinking much about it, te breathe. The next boy. Raymond, however, was caught by the athletic spirit that pervades almost nil the schools of the country. If Rnjinend could swim bet ter than the best swimmer of Wen 19 le lnterschelastic champion ship at Pittsburgh at age of fifteen. 1016 Defeated Jehn Knight Shlreck in Middle Atlantic fifty yard race. Time 26" .? e seconds. 1916 Wen Racket! cup at Lafay ette 100-yard course, setting record time of C0 .J-J seconds. 1011 Beaten by Gilbert Tomlin Temlin Tomlin jeii for same cup. regaining it by covering opponent's time of G3 )-e seconds. 1017 Again icon Middle Atlantic championship. 10 IS Ven Middle Atlantic championship a third time. nuse WeJI. because swim in in i is such a blooming geed thing, such n perfect justification for ' having arms and legs and lungs. Wl.n, William J. X. I'hl. the father, jyn a nung man lhing tu downtown I'iiilml.-lpl,):,. it was his habit when "", iiHiN were hoi or when he was JtlieriMM. moved. I,i walk along the liml, of t. Dciuware. When he teund H V ' ' - tvCaik.. VbmIH RKR3L VaKjLflFillKHlHBKdHwiviH mSlBKJHHM IHflby.K';leSwHrT3Bmi b" V"" S ':':i.'.:'rfr:::;Cl::;;;::'f: ':ff-';i:A Eleaner, Raymond W. and mmmW''" mWMpmMWKmB Mt&';&$2m Erncat Uhl In their various mmW ' '& ,: 'MMm'OmMmWMH mi&?Wmm mmmm swimming contests V -' CMWiWflSte I -7 Ieaks in the Swimming mmmW''' WnmmWWmMtt?;m ZL&d Recerd of Raymond Uhl I MM' :'kM rmWwBHIfi r r iMi Fi Mini iTjfMrli y 1 iHITi t JWI I L HHNK&EfKlffiilllllPKHlMK9 i i TitTiB'ni in JWrMM1'! ''iliif ' Il 'n' lilWi mcaner Uhl at home MHM. SRXsdQKSHBH bevs i i mm '"iiHywuii" iiiii nil Hi jhhcvIl liKiicaEaiinHnBMVitaiH mm .iiLLLLLLF - 1t. ' if i. 'A?. uiu ait mmmWWy"''' ' " z&Z. -cw Y I mmmm v:f i mmmmmmm " i v h. iH, ;-:''' '- U35-AcasW lilH. " ".- e"" - f , &" . v aaag ..-ttgggf si tiF w ; mmmmmM AJk' Youngest of Family fV ins i00-Yar(l v Outdoor Middle Atlantic Race ANOTHER CUP ADDEDTOUST Eleaner Found Girls Bere semc as a Child, Se Played With Beys meters race. .She thru stnrted in th film! and llnlsheil feuitli behind MIm ' j Kthelda Dliebtrpy. of New Yerk. She collapsed at the finish line and It will necessary te drac hrr from the Water. i Women in Politics ! Meets Her Disapproval 1 TheOlynipies, of oeurM'. have been he fur the peak of Miss I'IiI'm nwlm niltiB rnreer. She has wen unce tliPB n poed many rare but what may b called, perhaps, her life nvlmre 1 1 Krewin' rapidly. She has become presi- 1 dent of the local chapter of the Datifili- ters of Columbus, a Catholic orRiiniza erRiiniza orRiiniza tien. and one of the bookkeepers In the Lansdewnc Title Savings Kund and Trust Company. She would like te have become, she sa.i-., a physical di rector in some young ladies' seminary, but net at the cost of her amateur standing. Hewetcr, there is almost aa 1 much appeal in banking, and there ar no such things us amateur bunking con tests te worry one. About Miss Chi, it is curious and worth remark that she doe net at all believe In the modern jeung woman. i She is sincerely rejoiced ever the re turn of long skirls. She does net ap ap peo c of women in politics, nnd doubts very much if she will ever cast n vote. I "Let the men run the country and the women run the men." ".- in aiiiicdci arc Kemctninn anu te try 10 surpa-s mi n.inii.cun ele again. Surely, she thinks, women the accident of femininity had put upon have as much light te swim and te i ner. hue strove censmniiy te ueai me run as le wa k and rid., imrvm r at . . . . ... -.i. ...w their own games -baseball, them golf. tee. if they want te; let and In the great business of which there were almost as many opportuni ties for girls as for bejs. If girls choc te stay out and te play with dells, that was their affair. Later, she confesses, she revised this viewpoint n little, and began ardently te wish that she had been born a boy knilng and se en them drive cars, and go into the pre- " ---" - -' "- '. ...... u UlIU llll' IIU- Her mother died when she was still , fcsslens- Hut in the nature of things little cirl and a grandmother camel" llne must be drawn somewhere. Se Miss Uhl in fancy diving trials in Griffith Park Lake That was pretty much the ca-c, tee, with Jjleanur. She was becoming, next te her brother, the best swimmer In town at the time when the last of the (iiiuiilys was (enceding that competitive swimming for women might be ,1 wry geed thing. Her first swimming was done in the Iake at Orillith Park. "Deggie." of lleie, however, 1 llientll Ltuil 1... ......I.I .11.. ..A l.i iriititn lull ntlinl.tllt '"ll III ML' llinn. I,, .,.., ....I... , l. -I. till. I'm (!! MI11I MI'eMV llf.lllV MllllIllllL t. j..-.i. in iiiiii nuii lid' uivi - i I.---.. ii half decu limes up te. Then Iid fr when a filendly nthlcte who hud would dress nod gn home fee'lng belter, 'been watidiing her progress in the lnke "e in ui iir,. nn race-. I'mli- ' wanted her te spend the winter leuin- "im it in, , ,.,, (( lin (() (( S) J .is pi ci i mini! Hi,. Minie with ''"e-i, h ,,,M mi ,,,, i,.Iir,,,.,i t,, Krtlm almost ns senn us he learned te ly'l., ;i ml pin sued c.ich in pietty much le sumo f.ihi. liKed te walk, I lug the trudgeen and the ciawl. Mr. I'hl raised n massie hand against It. ".Swimming is all right," said Mr. Uhl. ".Swimming is very geed.' Hut no daughter of mlu will ever swim In public inhibitions." Ilewewr. under coaxing lasting sev eral months he finally jieldeJ. Ule.mer then went te practice three I nines a week in the peel of the First Itcgimcnt Armery. Almest at once she wen a rnce fur ueices. The following spring slie captured another and the last rampait of her father's prejudice. A few jeais later, without a murmur, he let her gu te Antwerp with the women's Oljmple team. Miss I hi is new twenty, a fact te lie gliaiicd only after devious questioning. She stands .ibeiit as (all as an average in.in, but the lines of her ligiue have the heroic guice of .lune's. Fer one, -e large she walks with a swift step, r- traerdinurilj resilient. Her skin, though a little girl and a grandmother came tu keep house for them. Eleaner learned te sew a little but net te leek. She renfesses new she cannot even suc i p-sfullj make toast, and repent- a saw In her grandmother that the technique of boiling potatoes i- bejend her. F.leaner passed out of this period without tee deep regret. She did net 1 abandon -ports, but specialized her sphere in them. When she plajed has-Li-tball it was with girls, and when 'ne entered swimming races it wa- against girls and women. The girls she had left te their dells in the beginniiigie i.inie her Intimate-, and when -he went te dances and met her old i!n mates it was en a new ground femed b; many i rituals At high si hoel she was one of the forward- of her basketball term for three jc.ii-. and in tlie-e three jear the team held the bimoieti-hii of the ""'lilt?. She resi ued the gill's swini n. 113 cli..mpieu-!ii for l.aii-dew ne High St lmel front nny possible doubt, for as long as she 1 cammed there. Mi-s I'hl was barely out. of high school when she was chosen for the women's Olympic team, and taken te Antwerp. Soen after the team armed there -he was taken seriously siik with i tensilitis and sent te a hospital. It ' began te nppcar that she would mis. the rnie-. Nevertheless, nt the time -et -!' appeared and wen the :fi)il Ernest Uhl Captures Championship at Sixteen ni:sr i msimti f a,,. ,,)!, y hat July "'J itinitntti the 111., sixteen years old, d the sifimmiiui en- iii.h'u frri.9tltlft "loe, Millc Atlantw champion l"l tute of (t ymd ut Piltman, ly '' . His time mis i minutes, '''""ii; his (ompetiters ueie ''(( '. p,ueliu, ('ail I rbun mid 'W ' ''1""''' '""' '' '"""''' Sahptci'ih, 'hi slaiiid the nice, assuring his I'Ulur he neuld nevir finish the '!"""' Itue te hts'riurvaiiencss ha mud win,, seconds after the gun. "" August ..'.;, i)2, he vnppcd 'in fiur by winning the 100-yard outdoor Middle Atlantic freestyle wtiptepihtp, beating such star 'J'lernurn in Human, Vraivnevtr, "irde and Iuti, i v.!7 r, sTSWWMWllK I i w ? ) - i Wkm ' s....r. m . Sf Il - m iHsB Ek'' ' s ar nn HHtfH- v &x&$mr $ fob i K .'n? h" k . " DtvaeHJ W.ITkl Ernest Uhl proudly displaying semc of trophies he wen I'le, straightforward sufficient manner. I but will net en any account supply in- formation of her own accord. She I frankly dislikes publicity, or as -.he ' cheeses te call it "notoriety." She dubious when surrounded In obvieiish MM V white In iipirln ulili ImlKI'OWS been binned by the sun in the imnrnxl.l inter lewers. mate loler of a shellbaik nut. Her ejes lt ls '"""d ' trui-crlbe Miss I'hl I'hl nre cry clear, very blue and wry I hard te make it plain thut bhe suggests etralghtly set. Her feiehead is liread-1 "et Mn"dlty but solidity; that she is net cr tl.an most persons'. Her hair, be-"nntlns Imagination, but merely the cause she wears it he tightly, suggests vlenrleua ''"aginatien of sedentary in jute, but its hue Is the same as the dlviduals. hair of the traditional Aphrodite. When i qi, ri,i .;.., she smiles, her teeth show white and i"e 0tl"(l Gl"H ReresOlllC I oe riayea with the Beys snunreMiid precisely spaced, She will answer questions In n slm- Peaks in the Shimming Recerd of Eleaner Uhl 1917 H'eii (lon'ce men at Ken sington V. IT. l .1. in 1 minute 35 seconds. 1918 Wen 100-yaul taee and 220-yaid handicap at Spiimj Lake, A. .. Time 1:17 dnd 3:21. 19?.Q Picked for Wemru'j Olym pic team. 1920 Although fresh fiam hos pital irpii fn'nJ heat of SQO meters, in xcaltr of 50 degrees, temperature, PA 1920 Finished fifty tit Inter Inter ITOffenal finals at Antieerp. r ,4 U Te expand: When Miss Uhl was I a Ilttle girl she never played with ether I llttle girls. She plaied wiih lu.r ' brothers, and with the bejs they pla.wd ' witli. lt was net thut she disliked or despised little ii Is, but that she found them horeseme. They were tame. There were no swift bold movements te the 'things they did. They wcre concerned nun neus anu r.ieaner could never thrill ever a dell. They were like nic. tare books, such peer substitutes for actuality. At best one could only weave romances about them, und why de that with llfe se full of Us own remance? The World was an infnntiu republic. In which the heat and mm , I - . .-,k.-ii..-.(.jmi..w-,J. , 1" Ernest Uhl li a tenats player f aete whv net draw it In politics? 1 Eniet, the veungest I hi is a gem of taciturnity in thN taciturn family. What may haw been Ins feelings nt I'ittman a few weeks Miien, when he beat (Siiirge V. Pawling, of the great Philadelphia Swimming Club, by one fifth of a second in a furlong race for the .Middle Slates championship, is a matter of mystery. Somewhat jeungcr he is even mine difficult of approach than hi- -i-ter. L'me. t entered the Mn'dle Atlantic hampien-ilp races at the command of hi- father, and under his own pretest that lie would be unable te lini-h the distance. He had picked up &u miming like bis brothers and -inters nt Griffith Park, but his praitiic l.ad been me-tly desultory nnd without training. He leniinued swimming in the re markable form he has hit upon thli jisir. .Hid wen tlu UiO-.iard outdoor .Middle Allatille fice-st.le (hampleii--lnp. whlih was held In the open-air lmel of the (iciiiiantewn I'kjs' Club, at ".I West I'cilll stieet. Augu-t ',,' The .Miutlifiil liteiid-baired merman, who ha- -wept ewr.v thing in the way of uppositien out of Ills path si, far thu -(asen. defeated a held of fourteen starters and lifted the crown fiem thu head of Al Iiirm,'! u. slur -w tinnier of the Iljgein Swimming riub ! Atlantic CMv. Ituiuiun wen the title wlii'ii he difeiitcd. aiming ether-. 'h n lev ( mwu. ever, the pilde of lliraid l d'lgi m the miliar iiiati-li at the Anili.i nder Sw nn miiig ("lull's . I mv iiinntlis age IM Iiarde, et t lie Wlliningteii M. ' A . liiil-hid -cieinl te hi, while Milten It. Nn-s, fin mm n of (iirard College and new el the ( lerinantew u Ilm-' dill,. W,s thud I lit i mil ii pulled up te thi lliiiNh line in fourth place. Bushel of Medals, Many Cups Among Their Trophies Among ih-ai tin nr- ,aw wen (dose te a liii-hei of medals an, ,,.,, ,.,)1 ii nn tni. can liml i.MIIII f, llll( ()le single pieif In the Mi.u.gei that they IliMe felt n ditilllte i mm about It In1 thut the top of the piano in the parlor i mwied with pes-ihU ,i thud of the,v I litis 'I hue ate efiui I'M'inng cemcrts In il.c I lil piiilei iii wlih Kleiiner is il I (1 1 1 llle III Ollipillll-I. S'lljif'l 111)1 M 11 1 a piofeiind en mlii. n i tip is ever- tuiniil, ami th men ,- intertiipted until it has Iceii leveienth icplaccd, W hethcr it is ;,, .t s Ul, or Uluniei"- or Itujnieiid s. .ill reach ul the one lii-timt tewanl ii, if the cup lui- been dinted and it i- .i- imicll a mine ,,f cencnii t IJtwm uhe hat no cups and te Mr. I'hl. who has nemi eithei, a- te the etliem. Mi. I Id's piireiits came here fiem (iermanj. but thesV of Ins wife, by deWeiiN wajs from 1 1 eland Hew yen in..; luceiiiue huh with the indubitable l lioiiKMjgeusncsH of the I'hU is your own lookout. Ma be it UHs that two brcthcrs wlie juurne.wd into Kurope from the Asiatic steppes were n'tniltcil in thu 007,000th generation, or that it Mllpslmi nimiiiii 1r......i,...i . . . . . . galley hadbcn wathed nnhere en lh(f .. ', Figure It out 'nny wiVktkgt 4 HI fi iiiiii ' v ' ' i,JiLAb-.. - M5-r
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