This article is part of the Northwestern Time Machine series, where The Daily’s sports writers look into great individual seasons by Northwestern athletes. Sybil Bauer was so dominant that she made ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 20, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. American swimmer Sybil Bauer at the ...

She was to be married in June. Most of her trousseau was ready. Her fiancé, Edward Sullivan, sports editor of the Macfadden New York Evening Graphic, was sitting at her bedside in a Chicago hospital.