WOMAN'S ENDURANCE

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3262, 12 October 1928, Page 6

WOMAN'S ENDURANCE

SWIIUMING OVER TWO DATS.

SKIN SWOLLEN BY WATER.

After setting a world's endu*ance record by swimming continuously for 54 hours 28 minutes in the Metropolitan Pool, New York, Mrs Myrtle Huddleston coUapsed as she was being assisted out of the water and was taken to hospital. She was suffering from exposure and exhaustion and could not return home for nearly a week.

Two nurses were assigned to give Mrs Huddleston constant attention. She awakened from sleep every four hours, being engaged in conversation for a few minutes and then allowed to sleep again. The break in the sleep was to relieve her shock by gradual stages. Mrs Huddleston previously held the endurance swimming record, having

remained in -the water for 50 hours and 10 minutes at Chicago last May. She expected to increase her time by at least ten hours in her latest performance. The swimmer was making her first attempt at the record in an outdoor pool. She complained that she was considerably weaker after having to withstand three rainstorms. Also, she suffered from the salt water, her previous mark having been set in a fresh

water pool. The salt water had a deleterious effect upon her skin. Her hands and feet were swollen abnormally, and when she was lifted from, the water her skin was \vrinkled and tender.

Mrs Huddleston is the only woman J who has swum the Catalina Channel. ;She is 30 years old and has a son 12 years old. The son, Everett, lived in a tent near the pool, and cheered his mother during the course of her trial.