“SWIMMING MOTHER”
Dies at 39 Known as the “Swimming Mother,” Airs. Myrtle Huddleston has died at San Francisco from an ailment of the heart. She was 39. In August, 1929. when she was the mother of a 13-year-old boy, she remained in the water 21 hours in an attempt to swim the English Channel from France. The tide and stiff headwinds forced her to give up after she had drifted many miles from her course. Airs. Huddleston was the first woman to swim the 20 miles from Catalina Island to the mainland of California, and she held the world’s endurance record for men and women, having remained in the water 85 hours and 15 minutes at Long Island in 1930. During her swim across the Catalina Island Channel, in 1927, she was attacked by a large fish, a barracuda, and bitten severely on the arms and body. In setting up an endurance record of 60 hours in 1928, she lost 251 b. in weight. She had taken up swimming in 1926 as a means of slimming.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 159, 2 April 1937, Page 3
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