SWIMMING.
ATTEMPT TO CROSS CHANNEL A PLUCKY FRENCHMAN. (Received duly 22, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 21. A French long-distance swimming eliauipiou, Mieliel, accompanied by Burgess, started from Grisnez in an attempt to swim tin 1 t'hanncl. They gave up six miles off the South Foreland, after being Hi hours in the water. HARD LICK. (Received July 23, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 22. Georges Michel, a Frenchman, accompanied by Burgess, entered the sea at Cape Grisnez on Thursday evening in an attempt to swim the Channel, lb' swam for sixteen and a half liou.s. Then he gave up the attempt t ;) swim the Channel, when six miles fr: m tire North Foreland. Ills last hci>r .- swir. was a plucky battle with the cold amt difficult seas. Michel once got within I'o'jr miles of the Fi‘dish s* ore, and he :.lt :>g ‘ther swam and drifted for fifty miles.
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Grey River Argus, 24 July 1922, Page 6
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