DOVER TO CALAIS AND BACK.
LEGLESS SWIMMER'S PLANS. (Xj SITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —BY ELBCTBIC TII^GBAPH—COPSBIBHT.) LONDON, July 26. The season's strangest Channel aspirant is the legless American, Charles Zimmerman, who intends to swim from Dover to Calais and return non-stop. He expects to be in the water 70 hours. He claims to hold the world's championship endurance swimming record, 100 hours, established at Honolulu. He lost his legs in a tram accident when a nowsboy at Chicago.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20610, 28 July 1932, Page 9
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