LEGLESS SWIMMER.
BIG FEAT IN AMERICA. (Received 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 24. Charles Zimmy, legless endurance swimmer who held the world record of 100 hours' non-stop swimming and who tried unsuccessfully several times to swim the English Channel, has started on a 143-mile non-stop swim down the Hudson River from Albany to New York. He is expected to take four days and plans to eat, sleep and smoke in the water. At Coeymans, when Zimmy had travelled I*2 miles by 9 a.m., he shouted to watchers: "Tell the folks I am feeling great! Everything's going swell!"
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 201, 25 August 1937, Page 7
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97LEGLESS SWIMMER. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 201, 25 August 1937, Page 7
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