SWIMMING.
WOMEN'S RECORD BROKEN. (ODTITED PRESS ABBOCIATIOH—-BT BUCTBIO TELEGRAPH —COPTEIOHT.) PARIS, August 17. Winning the 500 metres breast-stroke Sn Bmin 45 2-ssee, Miss Tvonne John broke tho women's world record of lOmin 83sec, held by Miss D. Welch, of Australia. MISS GLEITZEPS SUCCESS. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 17.? Miss Mercedes Gleitze swam tho Dardanelles at the widest part, four miles. . i mi ■ i 11 ' ■ j
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20010, 19 August 1930, Page 2
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