VICAR'S CHANNEL SWIM

Evening Star, Issue 19759, 9 January 1928, Page 12

VICAR'S CHANNEL SWIM

OFFER TO SPORTSMEN. The Rev. Herbert Qua me, vicar of St. Andrew’s, Jersey, in an effort to raise funds to complete his half-finished church, has made the novel suggestion that he should attempt to swim the Channel for a monetary reward. He is a sti-ong swimmer, and some years ago swam the nine miles from St. Helier to Corbiere. Ho says that for forty years efforts have been made to build a church in the parish, but peculiar local circumstances have made it a task of exceptional difficulty. Half the church has been completed with a bank overdraft of £2,500, and in order to clear that off and complete

the church the vicar must raise another £B,OOO. He said recently; “Although l.am forty-five years ofd I am.strong and.pan. stand.the cold. 1 am hoping’ that Any suggestion may appeal to sportsmen, arid that by - this means I ihay be able to raise something “worth while. I can promise a great attempt 1 at least. “ I want no personal gain or publicity out of this, and any money that I might make would bo handed over unreservedly to the church building fund.” . , The vicar is a well-built, athletic man, and is popular in the parish.