Constance Meyer

Constance Cycil Meyer (née Ralph, later Dressler; September 17, 1882 – January 3, 1967) was an English American competitive diver who was the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) women's champion in 1915 and 1917. She was twice runner-up for the AAU diving title; first in 1916 to Aileen Allen and again in 1918 to Thelma Payne. Meyer lived in Portland, Oregon and was a member of the Multnomah Athletic Club under instructor Jack Cody. She also competed in bowling, golf, ice hockey, swimming, tennis and water polo.

Not to be confused with Constance Mayer.
Constance Meyer
Meyer, circa 1914
Personal information
Birth nameConstance C. Ralph
Nickname(s)"Connie" Meyer
NationalityBritish-American
Born(1882-09-17)September 17, 1882
St Martin's, England
DiedJanuary 3, 1967(1967-01-03) (aged 84)
San Mateo County, California
Years active1913–1922
Spouse(s)William N. Meyer (1900–1919)
Lou C. Dressler (1919–1946, his death)
Sport
Sportdiving
ClubMultnomah Athletic Club
Coached byJack Cody
Achievements and titles
Regional finals1917
National finals1915, 1917

Biography

Meyer was born Constance Cycil Ralph in St Martin's, England on September 17, 1882 to Charles A. Ralph and Theresa Davies.[1][2][3] Her family moved to Portland, Oregon during her childhood and she found employment at a box factory in her late teens.[4] On September 18, 1900, she married William N. Meyer at Forbes Presbyterian Church in Portland.[5]

Meyer first learned how to swim at the Portland YWCA in 1912. She joined the diving and swimming program at the Multnomah Athletic Club in 1913 under the instruction of Jack Cody.[6] In June 1913, she took first place in a 50-yard swim meet.[7] The first competitive diving event Meyer competed in occurred on August 23, 1913 at a swimming meet at Peninsula Park. She took first place in the women's senior diving open, which was open to entrants 16 years and older.[8] Meyer competed in the Multnomah Athletic Club's annual Christmas Day swim meet in 1913, placing second in a 50-yard event.[9] Meyer joined a Multnomah Athletic Club women's water polo team in October 1913.[10] In March 1915, Meyer joined a fledgling women's ice hockey team in Portland.[11]

The Multnomah Athletic Club was invited to send competitors to the Amateur Athletic Union Diving and Swimming Championships in 1915, which were being held in conjunction with the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California. Meyer was one the three competitors that represented Multnomah.[12] Meyer won the AAU title by default on July 19, 1915 since there were no other entries.[13][14] Following her AAU title victory, crowds would gather to watch Meyer practice.[15]

In January 1916, Meyer rejoined the Portland women's hockey team and served as team captain.[16] Meyer took up tennis for the first time in June 1916. That month, she was the runner-up in a Multnomah Athletic Club tennis tournament.[17]

Meyer went to the Los Angeles Athletic Club in Los Angeles, California to defend her AAU diving title on June 29, 1916.[18][19] She had just five days notice before the event and was originally scheduled to play a tennis match in St. Helens, Oregon on the date of the AAU meet.[20][21] Meyer placed second, with a score of 351 points, to Los Angeles diver Aileen Allen, who scored 370 points.[18] Meyer petitioned the AAU to strip Allen of the title on the grounds she performed at Vaudeville shows and should be considered a professional athlete, but the AAU took no action.[22][23]

Meyer performed in several diving exhibitions in 1916 including the Astoria Regatta, the Happy Canyon Round-Up in Pendleton, Oregon and Frontier Days in Walla Walla, Washington.[24][25][26] During the Multnomah Athletic Club's Christmas Day swim in 1916, Meyer was scheduled to dive from the Morrison Bridge to the Willamette River. If the river was iced over, the club would to perform the third act of Uncle Tom's Cabin, in which Meyer would play "Eliza" crossing the ice on the Willamette.[27]

Meyer (left) with Irene Campbell (right) before their game of ice tennis on January 8, 1917 at the Portland Ice Arena.

In January 1917, Meyer played a match of ice tennis against Irene Campbell, which was the first of its kind in Oregon. The match was conceived by William F. Scott, manager of the Portland Ice Arena, who intended to make the sport a regular fixture of pre-game festivities at ice hockey games. Campbell defeated Meyer, 6–3.[28]

The Multnomah Athletic Club was awarded the hosting duties of the AAU Women's National Diving Championships in 1917. During her training for the event, Meyer broke an ear drum.[29] To prevent further injury Meyer packed her ear with cotton and sealed it with paraffin wax.[30] No national diving competitors made the trek to Oregon so the AAU title meet—which took place on May 19—was staged exclusively with state-wide participants, most of them who represented the host club.[31] Meyer placed first in the event ahead of second place finisher Helen Hicks and third place finisher Thelma Payne.[32]

Meyer followed-up her AAU title victory with a second place finish during a diving meet at the 1917 Rose Festival in Portland.[33] Meyer took first place at the 10 foot springboard event during the 1917 Pacific Coast Indoor Diving Championships on July 27 at Idora Park in Oakland, California.[34][35] During the event, she introduced a new diving form called the "volplane".[34] Following her Pacific Coast title victory, Meyer issued a challenge to national divers.[36] On September 3, 1917, Meyer won a diving contest at the Astoria Regatta.[37] That year, she began training for competitive high diving events from 16 and 24 foot platforms.[38]

Meyer's first diving competition of 1918 was the Oregon State Diving Championship, which was held at the Multnomah Athletic Club on January 12. She placed first with a score of 133.5.[39] In March 1918, Meyer moved to Tacoma, Washington, but continued to compete under the auspices of the Multnomah Athletic Club.[40] Two months later, a notice of separation was published in The Oregonian by Constance's husband, William N. Meyer.[41] On March 21, 1919, he was granted a divorce on grounds of "desertion".[42]

Meyer returned to competitive diving in May 1918 to train for the upcoming AAU Women's Diving Championship, which was scheduled for July 20 at the Multnomah Athletic Club.[43] Thelma Payne won the AAU Championship, with Meyer coming in second.[44] Meyer and Payne represented the Multnomah Athletic Club at the 1918 Pacific Coast Diving Championship in Victoria, British Columbia on August 24.[45] Payne again bested Meyer for the title.[46]

Meyer performing a swan dive, circa 1915

Meyer trained for the 1919 AAU title meet, but bowed out when the venue was switched from the Los Angeles Athletic Club to the Detroit Athletic Club.[47] The only diver the Multnomah Athletic Club sent to 1919 AAU Diving Championship was Thelma Payne, who was the reigning title holder.[48]

Meyer was struck on the heel by an automobile at the corner of Third avenue and Alder street in Portland on March 23, 1919. The driver, N. J. Braunstein, was arrested after Meyer went to the police.[49] During the court case, Meyer attempted to show the judge her injury and in doing so removed her stocking. According to The Oregon Daily Journal, Judge Rossman was notably embarrassed and dismissed the charges on the agreement that Braunstein donate $10 to the American Red Cross.[50]

On May 3, 1919, Meyer competed at the Pacific Northwest Indoor Diving Championship at the Multnomah Athletic Club.[51] During the 1919 Rose Festival in Portland, Meyer performed a diving exhibition.[52] Her next competitive diving meet came on July 4, 1919 during the Far West Diving Championship at Neptune Beach in Alameda, California.[53][54] She placed second in the event behind Aileen Allen, who represented the Los Angeles Athletic Club. A later review of the scores by The Oregonian contended that one of the judge's score was tallied wrong, which cost Meyer first place.[55] Meyer also competed in that year's Pacific Coast Outdoor Diving Championship in Victoria, British Columbia, but again came in second to teammate Thelma Payne.[56][57][58] Meyer returned to Victoria, British Columbia on September 22, 1919 to perform for Edward VIII, Prince of Wales, during his tour of Canada, but the event was scrapped when the prince left for a hunting trip.[59][60]

On December 23, 1919, Meyer married Lou C. Dressler in Vancouver, Washington. Meyer, who was eight years older than Dressler, declined to give her age on the marriage documents. Instead she listed her age as "legal".[61] Lou C. Dressler was a labor organizer for the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers.[62]

In 1920, Meyer was hired to oversee swimming at the Columbia River beach in Portland.[63] Meyer took first place in the diving qualifying event for the 1920 Summer Olympics, but was not invited to join the United States team.[64][65] She competed in the 1920 Far West Diving Championship on June 26 at Neptune Beach in Alameda, California, where she placed third.[66] Meyer continued to compete sporadically in diving events until at least 1922, including that year's Oregon State Outdoor Diving Championship at the Oaks Natatorium in Sellwood, Portland, Oregon.[67][68] She placed first in the Oregon State Indoor Diving Championship at the Multnomah Athletic Club on March 11, 1922.[69]

Legacy and later life

Meyer was credited by her teammate, Thelma Payne, in sparking her interest in diving when she witnessed Meyer perform at the Portland YWCA.[70][71] Meyer was also the first pupil of Jack Cody to win a national title. Cody, who went on to train several Olympic swimmers and divers, is in the International Swimming Hall of Fame as a coach.[72]

In 1922, DeWitt Harry for The Oregonian called Meyer the "grittiest and most daring amateur woman divers".[73] She was critical of the excessive clothing women divers and swimmers were required to wear for modesty. She would wear a one-piece swimsuit when the event permitted its use instead of the traditional skirt swimsuit that were ubiquitous at the time. In 1918, Meyer told the publication Sweater News: The Journal of the Sweater and Fancy Knit Goods Trade, "Were it not for the handicap of too much clothing, more women would be heard from in this sport. [...] Public opinion has hampered the popularity of the skirtless bathing suit more than anything else. I think women would generally accept it were it not for criticism."[74] Meyer designed her own swimsuit and it was manufactured by the Olympia Woolen Mills in Olympia, Washington.

In 1930, Meyer made it into the finals of a golf tournament at the Ingleside Golf Course in San Francisco, California. According to her husband, Meyer had only taken up golf five days prior.[62]

Meyer and her husband moved to San Mateo County, California where they lived together until his death in 1946.[75] She died at her San Mateo apartment on January 3, 1967 at the age of 84. Her death was described as "natural causes".[76] She was interned at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California.[1]

Record
Bowling
Name of contest Date Scores Place Location Ref
1917 Northwest International Bowling Congress Women's Championship April 24, 1917 Game one: 170 Second Oregon Alleys; Portland, Oregon [77]
Game two: 158
Game three: 147
Total: 475
Swimming
Name of contest Date Event Place Location Ref
1913 Multnomah Athletic Club Summer Swim MeetJune 13, 191350 yard FirstMultnomah Athletic Club; Portland, Oregon[7]
1913 Multnomah Athletic Club Christmas Day Swim MeetDecember 25, 191350 yard SecondMultnomah Athletic Club; Portland, Oregon[9]
1917 Astoria RegattaSeptember 2, 1917100 yard course ThirdAstoria Regatta; Astoria, Oregon[78]
Diving
Name of contest Date Place Location Ref
1913 Peninsula Park Swim MeetAugust 23, 1913 FirstPeninsula Park Swimming Pool; Portland, Oregon[8]
1915 AAU Women's National Diving ChampionshipJuly 19, 1915 FirstIdora Park; Oakland, California[13]
1916 AAU Women's National Diving ChampionshipJune 27, 1916 SecondLos Angeles Athletic Club; Los Angeles, California[18]
1916 Astoria RegattaSeptember 4, 1916 FirstAstoria Regatta; Astoria, Oregon[79]
1917 AAU Women's National Diving ChampionshipMay 19, 1917 FirstMultnomah Athletic Club; Portland, Oregon[32]
1917 Pacific Coast Indoor Diving ChampionshipAugust 26, 1917 FirstIdora Park; Oakland, California[34]
1917 Astoria Regatta Diving MeetSeptember 3, 1917 FirstAstoria Regatta; Astoria, Oregon[37]
1918 Oregon State Diving ChampionshipJanuary 12, 1918 FirstMultnomah Athletic Club; Portland, Oregon[39]
1918 AAU Women's National Diving ChampionshipJuly 20, 1918 SecondMultnomah Athletic Club; Portland, Oregon[44]
1918 Pacific Northwest Outdoor Diving ChampionshipAugust 25, 1918 SecondVictoria, British Columbia[80]
1919 Pacific Northwest Indoor Diving ChampionshipMay 3, 1919
—
Multnomah Athletic Club; Portland, Oregon[51]
1919 Far Western Diving ChampionshipJuly 4, 1919 Second§Neptune Beach; Alameda, California[55]
1919 Pacific Northwest Outdoor Diving ChampionshipJuly 20, 1919 SecondVictoria, British Columbia[56]
1920 Far West Diving ChampionshipJune 26, 1920 ThirdNeptune Beach; Alameda, California[66]
1920 Western Olympic Diving TryoutsJune 26, 1920 FirstNeptune Beach; Alameda, California[81]
1920 Olympic High Diving Qualifying FinalsJuly 10, 1920 EighthManhattan Beach, New York[81]
1920 Olympic Fancy Diving Qualifying FinalsJuly 10, 1920 SixthManhattan Beach, New York[81]
1922 Oregon State Indoor Diving ChampionshipMarch 11, 1922 FirstMultnomah Athletic Club; Portland, Oregon[69]
1922 Oregon State Outdoor Diving ChampionshipJuly 29, 1922 ThirdOaks Natatorium; Portland, Oregon[68]

§Miscalculations in one judge's score cost Meyer first place, according to The Oregonian.[55]

Tennis
Name of contest Date Event Place Location Ref
1916 Multnomah Athletic Club Spring Women's Tennis TournamentJune 13, 1916singles SecondMultnomah Athletic Club; Portland, Oregon[82]
1917 Multnomah Athletic Club Women's Tennis TournamentJuly 11, 1917doubles (with Mildred Wilson) FirstMultnomah Athletic Club; Portland, Oregon[83]

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Preceded by
Elise Hannerman
Aileen Allen		 Amateur Athletic Union
Women's Diving Champion
1915
1917		 Succeeded by
Aileen Allen
Thelma Payne
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