SWIMMING.
ANOTHER ENDURANCE RECORD. """"■™ ARGENTINIAN'S PERFORMANCE. BUENOS AIRES, March 15. Pedro Cadeotti, Argentine's most noted swimmer, set a new world's endurance record of 71 hours 55 minutes in the water. He. swam 211 miles in the Parana River, from Santa Fe to near Baradero. He had hoped to swim to Buenos Aires, a distance of 301, but the accompanying physician persuaded him to abandon the effort this, morning, when it became evident he could 1 not accomplish the objective. PREVIOUS RECORDS. 72hr Bmin 40sec—Miss Lottie Shoenimel (U.S.A.), New York, in> 1928. 69111" Omin Osec—Mahomed Shaft (India), Worthing Baths, London, October 16 to 19, 1930. 68hr llmin Osec—Arthur Rizzio (Malta), in open sea, September 2o to 28, 1930. 67hr lOmin Osec—P. B. Cosh (Calcutta), September, 1930. GOhr Omin Osec—Captain M. Webb (England), June, 1930. oGhr 56miii 30sec—Mrs Lee Fourier (Colton, U.S.A.), September, 1928. GOhr lOmin lSsec—Mrs M. Huddlestone (Chicago), May, 1928. 39hr Omin Osec—Mercedes Gleitze (Wolverhampton, England), 1930.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 132, 17 March 1931, Page 6
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