CHANNEL SWIM

Grey River Argus, 20 August 1934, Page 5

CHANNEL SWIM

By Woman and Man NEW RECORDS. (Aus and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received August 19 at 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 18. An Austrian girl, Emma Faber, swam the English Channel in 870 minutes, beating the women’s record held by Miss Gertrude Ederle, by four minutes. LATER, Subsequently it was announced that Miss Faber’s time was 880 minutes for the crossing. That is six minutes slower than Miss Ederle’s. A Londoner, named Temme. also swam the Channel. He took 945 minutes. This is a record for the swim from England to France. Temme swam from France in 1927, and he is the first swimmer to have been successful both ways. Temme is an insurance clerk, aged 29, a teetotaller and a nonsmoker. He used the trudgeon stroke, averaging twenty per minute. He landed unexhausted and fit. CALAIS, August 18. Miss Faber, on returning here by boat, claimed the record for the swim, stating that she left France at 1.10 a.m., landing in England at 3.18 p.m. This contradicts an English announcement that she left France at 0.45 a.m. and landed at 3.25 p.m.