SWIM OUT THE OLD

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 147, 19 December 1930, Page 12

SWIM OUT THE OLD

SWBI IN THE NEW

Miss Mercedes Gleitze (Mrs. P. Carey) is planning to beat her endurance record in Wellington. On Ist January last Miss Gleitze swam for 26 hours at Edinburgh, establishing the British record for endurance swimming. Since then she has improved ;upon her time so considerably that at Dublin two days before .she boarded i the Corinthie for New Zealand, she swum for 4li hours. It is this record which Miss Gleitzc proposes to increase by hall an hour in the Boys' institute Baths, Tasman street, starting on 31st December. By commencing on this date she will swim the Old Year out and the New Year in. The public will be admitted day and night, and Miss Gleitzc said to-day that she was most grateful for the sportingl spirit which had prompted those controlling the baths to grant her the use of them for her I effort. Miss Gleitzo hopes to arrange for I,well-known sporting men of the town to act as stewards, three at a time for_ three hours, to vouch for the authenticity of the swim and sign the official log. As far as the Cook Strait swim was eonicerned. Miss Gleitze said she had made no further plans, but Mr. J. Tait, of Island Bay, would be her boatman and on Christmas Day she would go out with him to consider a possible starting point for her swim. _