WOMAN SWIMS CATALINA CHANNEL.
(BI CABLE—PBZSS ASSOCIATION— COBTBIOHT.) (AUSTBALIAX AHD H.Z. CADLH ASSOCIATION.)
(Received February 7th, 8.45 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, February 6. The first woman to swim the Catalina Channel, Mrs Myrtle Huddleston, finished the course to-day, taking 20 hours 42 minutes. She was almost exhausted in battling througlf the surf to the land.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18920, 8 February 1927, Page 9
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