SWIMMING.
BEAUREPAIRE BREADS DOWN IN LONG-DISTANCE RACE. *r XELBGRAPn —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYBIGm London, Juno 28. .J.. A. Jarvis, the English swimmer, won the Richmond to Blackfriars' swimming race. The Australian,. Beaurepaire, collapsed from cramp at Hammersmith Bridge, in the 1 , midst of an exciting struggle with Jarvis, first one and then the other leading. Somo boatmen, without throwing off their clothes, dived in and- rescued Beaurepaire, who recovered. Beaurepaire, not yet sevonteen years of age, is to bo one of Australia's representatives at tho Olympic sports. The other is F. W. Springfield, a distance mall.' The course swum is at least 15 miles. J. A. Jarvis, on August i, 1906, swam seven miles and a quarter, in tho Seine, Paris, in 2hr. 42min.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 237, 30 June 1908, Page 7
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123SWIMMING. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 237, 30 June 1908, Page 7
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