SKIING ON WATER.
BERLIN, July 18. Ski-ing on water is the latest German sport. A device invented by Fritz Ernest Neumann, which consists of two tubeshaped struts of light material, measuring from six to nine feet #a«k and weighing some thirteen pooaii; enables the wearer to skim over tha im>face of the water like a ski-er over snow. A distance of fourteen miles on the Baltic Sea was recently covered, by a man wearing water skis, in four hours. Pioneers of this new sport have opened the first water ski station at the popular Baltic seaside resort, Swinemunde. It is prophesied that water hockey will be-the- ne. _.> development, ___ ,
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 206, 31 August 1936, Page 5
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