CHANNEL SWIM
THE SEASON COMMENCES THREE ATTEMPTS MADE. AMERICAN GIRL’S GREAT EFFORT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August S. (Received August 4, at 12.30 p.m.) Besides Miss Barrett, who is an American swimming teacher, 6ft 3in in height and weighing 15st, two others, Farstad (a Norwegian) and Dr Brewster, attempted to swim the Channel. The last-named abandoned tho task after five hours, and Farstad after four, teen hours in the water. Miss Barrett kept in the water 225 hours, covering forty miles. She was greatly impeded by fog, in which she had some narrow escapes from being run down by ships. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19319, 4 August 1926, Page 6
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104CHANNEL SWIM Evening Star, Issue 19319, 4 August 1926, Page 6
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