CANADIAN 10 MILE SWIM
’Rec. 9.10 p.m.) OTTAWA, August 29. Perry KersChner, aged 23, won the Canadian national exhibition 10-mile World' professional swim at Toronto to-day.
Kerschner. after trailing George Eevan, of Winnipeg, the 18-year-o!d Canadian amateur swimming champion most of the way, pulled ahead at the iiine-rpile mark to win the race in 4 hours 26 minutes 32 seconds.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26514, 31 August 1951, Page 9
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