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...Herr Doktor Siegfried Schiff, 66, a Berlin physician, said sternly to reporters on the North Sea Isle of Heligoland, last week, that he was about to take a swim "solely for exercise." Plunging in Herr Doktor Schiff swam completely around Heligoland, about three miles, in 4 hours and 35 minutes...
Mercedes Gleitz, London stenographer who said she swam the Strait of Gibraltar and the English Channel, tried to swim from Ireland to Scotland, 21%½ miles across the North Channel from Donaghadee to Port Patrick, but couldn't make...
...your Sport Column overlook the wonderful victory won by the "Tomcats" of Ashland, Kentucky? How does their "clean play" record of going through the entire tournament without a single personal foul compare in "reader interest" with your recent story (under "Records") about the fat man from Hamburg who swam the sea lion to sleep...
...Hamburg a fat man named Otto Kemmerich got into a swimming pool with a California sea lion. After swimming for ten hours the sea lion went to sleep in the water, was revived with a meal of fresh herring, swam 32 hours more, collapsed. Kemmerich swam four hours longer, a new world's endurance record...
...swam the Strait of Gibraltar," said Miss Mercedes Gleitz, London stenographer. She added that it took her twelve hours and three-quarters to get across. "What proof have you got, Miss Gleitz?" The swimmer showed a deposition signed by 60 Moroccans who said they saw her land or start or who went with her in little boats. Miss Gleitz said she knew one Englishman had seen her do it. He was a young boy. She described him, but he couldn't be found. Last year Miss Gleitz said she had swum the English Channel but refused...