WOMEN AS SWIMMERS.
Women 'appear to bo coming to the. fore as swimmers. Following on tho remarkable, swimming feat, mentioned in the English papers a little while ago, of Lady Marjorio Dalrymple in Scotland, comes the news that the Solent has been conquered for the first time by a woman, in the person of another native of the land of cakes and, ale—Mrs. Arthur Hamilton, wife of Major Hamilton, of the 6th Dragoon Guards. She swam across from Stokes Bay to Ryde, a distance of nearly four miles, with tide and currents, to be taken into account. This achievement was accomplished in two hours,in very favourable weather. Mrs. Hamilton has already distinguished herself in tho, water,, for she received a medal from tho Mayor of Dinard to commemorate her three-mile swim from that place to Vicomto-sur-Ranco, only a fortnight before the Solent event. Mrs. Hamilton, • a pretty, dark-liaired woman, is the ( yo«ngest of tho three daughters of the late Sir Charles Fair-lie-Cnningliame. '
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 972, 12 November 1910, Page 11
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