ACROSS NEW YORK BAY.
("Tunes"-Sydney "Sun" Special Cable.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright) (Received September Ist, 6.50 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 1. . Captain Brown, at his fifth attempt, swam across New York Bay from the Battery to Sandy Hook, a distance of 22 miles, despite an unfavourable wind and tide. He was in the water for 13 hours 38 minutes.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14760, 2 September 1913, Page 7
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