CHANNEL SWIM
A LEGLESS ASPIRANT.
[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. COPYBIGHT.]
LONDON, July 26. The season’s strangest Channel aspirant is a legless American, Charles Zibelman, who intends to swim from Dover to Calais and return non-stop. He expects to be in the water 70 hours. He claims to hold the world’s championship endurance swimming record, of .100 hours, established at Honolulu. He lost his legs in a tram accident, when a newsboy at Chicago.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 July 1932, Page 5
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73CHANNEL SWIM Greymouth Evening Star, 27 July 1932, Page 5
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