SWIMMING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 30 August 1926, Page 3

SWIMMING.

THE ENGLISH CHANNEL. ANOTHER, AMERICAN WOMAN SUCCESSFUL, BY CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION —COP I RCGHT. LONDON, Aug. 29. Mrs. Carson, an American, swam the Channel from Grisnez to Dover in 15hr 40niin. Mrs. Clarson entered the water at Cape Grisnez at 11.32 on Friday night, and stepped ashore at Dover iat 3.10 on Saturday afternoon. She began strongly, swimming, ,nineteen strokes to the minute. For breakfast she had cocoa, loaf sugar and ■chocolate. Her husband accompanied her in a boat. The last lour miles' were gruelling, the swimmer lighting, her way through the flood tide. She was exhausted when who reached the shore end staggered into the anus of friends. She beat the record of any man, hut was a n hour longer than Miss Ederlc. Mrs. Carson, who was born in Denmark, is an naturalised American, 27 years of age, .and the mother ol two children. She /said before her swim : “You bet your life 1 will iswim the Channel. What do you think I left my husband and children for? Gee, you make me feel homesick asking me can I do it.” She attributes her success to her sound health, no drinking, no smoking landino late hours. “There,” she said. “You have it in a nutshell.” The Sunday News' .states that an American, Walter Lissbergen, placed a £IOOO bet at Lloyd’s that Mrs. Carson would swim the Channel before September 1, and obtained twenty to' one odds. Thus he won £20,000. He stated that lie intended, to give Mrs. Carson £SOOO. He has, issued a, challenge on behalf of Mrs. Carson to swim round Manhattan Island for a, purse of £SOOO NEW YORK, Aug. 28. The challenge issued by Lissbergen is to “everybody. Miss Eidorle ivnexooptod.” Miss Ederle’s counsel said she would “consider such challenge when it was received.”