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By Bruce Wigo<\/em><\/p>\n

The list of heroes\u00a0from\u00a0our sport’s past is long and glorious. One of the most remarkable super-champions of the Golden Age of Sports was Johnny Weissmuller.<\/strong>\u00a0 If the present generation remembers him at all, it is as a somewhat portly and inarticulate fellow swinging from jungle trees and wrestling crocodiles in old black and white Tarzan movies.\u00a0 Not as the great swimmer who regularly received more votes than Babe Ruth<\/strong>, Red Grange<\/strong>, Ty Cobb<\/strong> and Jim Thorpe<\/strong> as the World\u2019s Best Athlete – and the man who won 5\u00a0Olympic Gold Medals in swimming, a bronze in water polo and set a world record in the 100 yards freestyle that lasted 17 years.<\/p>\n

In timed sports like swimming, retired champions lose much of their glamour with each passing season. Even though Weissmuller\u2019s \u201cunbeatable\u201d record of :51.0 for the 100 free is slower than the 12 & under girls record for the same event held by Missy Franklin ninety years later (:50.27), we should not lose sight of the fact\u00a0that in his day, Weissmuller wore\u00a0the same “GOAT\u201d (Greatest of All-Time) label Michael Phelps<\/strong> wears today.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: ISHOF Archive: Sybil Baue<\/strong>r Scrapbook – Heroes of Swimming<\/p><\/div>\n

Sadly, many of History’s “GOATs” – including the likes of\u00a0Don Schollander,<\/strong>\u00a0Mark Spitz<\/strong>, Mary T. Meagher,<\/strong> Tracy Caulkins<\/strong> and Matt Biondi<\/strong>\u00a0– are as unfamiliar as Weissmuller to almost every visitor to the Hall of Fame under 30.\u00a0 With this series of articles, showcasing ISHOF\u2019s collection of sports cartoon art, we hope to entertain and educate our readers about\u00a0some of the athletes\u00a0who helped to make our great sport what it is today.<\/p>\n

HEROES OF SWIMMING IN SPORTS CARTOONS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In the first half of the\u00a020th century, the sports sections\u00a0of virtually every American newspaper, of any size, prominently featured sports cartoons with heroes of swimming.\u00a0These\u00a0amusing and informative\u00a0caricatures of prominent sportsmen and women of the day were created by artistically adept sportswriters. They drew upon their imaginations and knowledge of personalities to create their stories, rather attending sporting events as visual reporters. Their works were reflective of an era when the sports section was all about fun and games. Among the legendary sports cartoonists who created the art\u00a0in this series are:\u00a0Joe Archibald, Phil Berube,\u00a0Robert Edgren, Thornton Fisher, Fredric “Feg” Murray, Tom “Pap” Paproki, Robert (Believe It Or Not) Ripley, Jack Sords and Lindsey Prescott.<\/p>\n

DUKE KAHANAMOKU<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the earliest\u00a0cartoons in the ISHOF collection features\u00a0Duke Kahanamoku<\/strong>.\u00a0When the\u00a020 year old\u00a0Hawaiian “beach boy,” entered his first swimming competition and broke the world record in the 100 yd. freestyle (yes, once times in yards counted as “world” records) by 3 4\/5 seconds, the AAU\u00a0refused to\u00a0\u00a0recognize him\u00a0until he\u00a0equalled the time in a pool at the 1912 Olympic Trials. Duke did and went on to win\u00a0gold\u00a0at the Olympic Games in Stockholm. \u00a0In 1915, when this cartoon was published, Duke was in Australia where he broke the world record again\u00a0and introduced the sport of surfing to the Australian continent.<\/p>\n

\"Duke

Photo Courtesy: ISHOF Archive<\/p><\/div>\n

At the 1920 Olympic Trials, Robert Edgren’s study of Duke (below) shows his “Peculiar start for a sprint.” “He hits the water in a running stride and throws himself forward, gaining several yards.” In this meet, Duke broke the world record in the 100 meters freestyle and then went on to win his second gold in the event at the Olympic Games in Antwerp, eight years after his first. He lost his opportunity to compete in the 1916 Games because they were cancelled a little disagreement among European Royalty. Edgren, the\u00a0cartoonist, had\u00a0attended the University of California at Berkeley where he had been\u00a0a member of the track team. He competed in the discuss and shot put at the 1906 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece\u00a0and later became\u00a0the sports editor of the NY Evening World.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: ISHOF Archive<\/p><\/div>\n

Reporting on\u00a0the Olympic Games at Antwerp in 1920 was Robert “Believe it or Not”\u00a0Ripley, who did cartoon renderings of many of the USA’s Olympians, including Duke Kahanamoku, “the most famous swimmer in the world.” \u00a0Accompanying the cartoon\u00a0below, Rigley quoted Duke before his race: “I want to make anew world’s record that will stand as a tombstone over my athletic career. I have taken 10 pounds from my normal 200 pounds and never felt in better condition in my life.” Duke did in fact win (by over 3 seconds) and set a new world record of 1:00.4. Hawaiian teammate Pua Kealoha finished second 1.8 seconds behind. \u00a0Duke won a second Olympic Gold in Antwerp as a member of the 4 x 200 free relay.<\/p>\n

\"Duke

Photo Courtesy: ISHOF Archive<\/p><\/div>\n

In\u00a01922, Johnny Weissmuller came along and started breaking some of Duke’s records.\u00a0By the time this Feg Murray cartoon appeared\u00a0in 1923 there was a great debate – which one of them was “The greatest swimmer the world has ever known?” The 33 year old “Champ from antiquity” or the 18 years old phenom from Chicago? \u00a0It was a question that called\u00a0for\u00a0the wisdom of Solomon. \u00a0Like all similar debates about who’s better – the Beatles or the Stones? \u00a0\u00a0Adele or Beyonce? – Duke or Johnny? remains a\u00a0question\u00a0argued by aquatic historians to this day. The two would not race against each other until the 1924 Olympic Trials in\u00a0Indianapolis. There, and at the Paris Games, Weissmuller would win the gold medal in the 100m freestyle, while Duke won the silver and his younger brother Sam Kahanamoku<\/strong> copped\u00a0the bronze.<\/p>\n

\"Duke

Photo Courtesy: ISHOF Archive<\/p><\/div>\n

Duke Kahanamoku was revered throughout the sports world both for his athletic prowess and as ambassador of Hawaii’s Aloha philosophy. He was also a favorite subject of political and sports cartoonist Feg Murray. Murray was\u00a0educated at Palo Alto High School and graduated from Stanford University’s art department in 1916. While at that school, he was an inter-collegiate track star and later became Duke’s teammate on the 1920 Olympic Team, earning a bronze medal\u00a0in the hurdles.<\/p>\n

\"Duke

Photo Courtesy: ISHOF Archive<\/p><\/div>\n

Duke\u00a0didn’t participate in the 1928 Olympic Trials due to a bout with the influenza, but came back at the age of 43 to try out for the 1932 Olympic team. \u00a0For the first 25 meters Duke cut through the water like a human torpedo but faded over the final 25 and failed to qualify for the final. When asked what happened, he replied: “The legs, the legs. I was moving with no effort for 25 yards and was cutting through the water with ease. Then I started feeling something heavy hanging onto my body. I had my strokes, but the legs couldn’t push me along.”<\/p>\n

Thus\u00a0marked the end of one of the greatest careers in the history of sports.\u00a0In Murray’s last cartoon featuring the great Hawaiian\u00a0– he portrays\u00a0the man who had once been unbeatable in his prime, the Duke who reigned as the King of swimming for twenty years\u00a0–\u00a0as a famous “has been” – who plays\u00a0golf.\u00a0Know any recently retired swimmers who enjoy golfing?<\/p>\n

\"Duke

Photo Courtesy: ISHOF Archive<\/p><\/div>\n

Today, Kahanamoku is\u00a0best remembered as the “Father of Surfing” but when he was in his prime as a swimmer no one could beat him.\u00a0He served as Hawaii’s sheriff until the 1960s and has the honored distinction of being the First swimmer inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame, in 1965.<\/p>\n

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