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Miss Lillian Harrison, Argentine swimmer training to swim the English Channel, last week performed this feat as part of her training. She entered a marathon swim from Corbell to Paris, one woman in a field of eleven men. Two black Senegalese swimmers, accustomed to the tepid rivers of Afria, turned saffron, then green with cold, left the race. T. W. Burgess, Englishman who swam the Channel in 1911, followed suit. One by one the giant swimmers quit until only five were left, among them stout-hearted Miss Harrison. At the Austerlitz Bridge she had cramps; at the Chamber of Deputies...
...English Channel, the most widely advertised and popular of natatorial obstacles, is 22.5 miles wide where swimmers attempt it-Dover to Calais or vice versa-and a swimmer's course is often 56 miles long through the shifting tides. It has been traversed several times, most recently and fastest (16 hr. 33 min.) by Enrique Tirabocchi, Argentine porpoise-man. Channel water, however, is warmer than the Firth of Forth. (TIME, Aug. 20, 1923). The Hellespont, between Gallipoli Peninsula and Asia Minor-famed in fable for being negotiated by Leander, amorous Greek, and in romance because Lord Byron...
...handle of the our came back and hit Proctor in the stomach. In that event, they claimed he might have slumped forward, tipping the boat and falling out. His efforts to catch his breath would result in his lungs filling with water, and although he might be a good swimmer, rendered him incapable of saving himself. It was exceedingly misty Monday afternoon, and improbable that there were any other boats in the vicinity...
...that an accident may have occurred. The inclement weather, to gather with the scheduled races, offered small inducement to scullers yesterday, and it is doubtful whether there were any other boats in the vicinity. The river is very narrow at that point, however, and it is thought that a swimmer of even ordinary ability could have reached the shore. Rules for sculling in the University demand that a man who takes out a wherry be able to swim four lengths of the Big Tree Swimming Pool. He is also instructed implicitly to remain by his shell in case of accident...
According to the great swimmer, Johnny Weissmuller, a determined effort is to be made to have Miss Sybil Bauer, of Chicago, compete against men backstroke swimmers at the Olympic games next summer...