SWIMMING RECORD BRINGS FINE.
When Miss Ruth Litzig, a 19-year-old German girl, broke the ■world duration record for women by swimming continuously for 73 hours and 47 minutes, her first reward was a fine of 5/-. . The girl did her endurance test in the Herne canal, where swimming is strictly forbidden. For three days she defied the Prussian law. and .when she left the water the canal authorities imposed -the fine upon her.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 50, 22 November 1932, Page 16
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73SWIMMING RECORD BRINGS FINE. Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 50, 22 November 1932, Page 16
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