“WE take our sports too seriously,” said Johnny Weissmuller, once the greatest of all amateur swimmers, now being paid large sums of money to prove that Darwin was right, by leaping from limb to limb in the Hollywood jungles as “Tarzan.” “Personally, I don’t believe in what people call ‘serious training,’ meaning by that ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954), Wed 18 Oct 1933, Page 14
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