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...newspaperman in Australia, and later in Canada, Bolwell has covered every kind of athletic event from tandem cycling to surfboat racing, and has himself been an active amateur athlete most of his life. A former cricketer, track star and Australian football player, he now concentrates on his aggressive tennis game and on encouraging his ten-year-old son Farley-a prospect, says Bolwell, for the 1980 Olympic swimming team...
...Shark River Coast Guard Station and had the honor ot meeting Chief Boatswain's Mate M. M. Hymer who, with his crew of four men, picked up 96 living persons from the sea and towed 70 more in other boats, to safety. Their 26-ft. self-bailing surfboat was the first on the scene. They plucked 14 from the sea and rushed them beachward; they returned immediately to find the City of Savannah and Monarch of Bermuda in the vicinity and later the Andrea F. Luckenbach and from then on they picked up the survivors and turned them over...
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