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...Including onetime Crown Prince Frederick William, who had staked the able Teuton swimmer...
...backwash of the Amsterdam steamer Ulysses; he saw a gleam ing porpoise turn over, 20 yards from the mother of his two chil dren. But on the sands of Dover he kissed her, revived her, said: "She's the finest girl in the world, and the best swimmer in the world." Meanwhile, one C. Walter Lissberger, a Manhattan tire merchant, who financed Mrs. Corson, collected $100,000 from Lloyd's, London, on comb, the grandfather, a splendid man, a dead lover...
...Stuttgart, Germany, the Burgomaster, Mayor, and officials of the town, together with numerous uncles, cousins, aunts, and more distant kinsmen, welcomed Gertrude Ederle, Channel swimmer. She will next visit her grandmother-Gertrude Ederle, 77-in Bissinger, where the old lady keeps bar in her own hotel, Lamb...
...official, "I am a butcher. . . ." He had not, on the long slow trip, behaved like one. As Gertrude Ederle, having splashed through the breakers at Cape Gris Nez, fell into a slow crawl beside the tug, "Pop" Ederle sat on deck, chatting comfortably to Thomas Burgess (trainer), Helmi (Egyptian swimmer), Miss Cannon (another U. S. Channel aspirant) and one Timson (Boston swimmer). In the bow was a brass band. On the tug's side was a great white arrow with the legend, "This Way, Ole Kid." The band played The Star-Spangled Banner. Miss Ederle responded from the water...
...Philadelphia, Arne Borg, b10nd-eyed Swedish swimmer, crawled 880-yards in 10 min. 38 2/5 sec., a world's record. Expertly thrashing mincing waves, four young men spurted through the water one after the ather like successive finger snaps md established a new U. S. record for the half mile relay, hewing rff a full 16 4/5 sec. from the >ld mark of a little over ten minutes, at Philadelphia last week. They were Johnny Weismuller, P. McGillivray, Albert Schwartz, Arne Borg, all of different nationalities, all swimming for Illinois...