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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 16 July 1927, Page 4 (Supplement)

Everyone is doing it—or trying it. The latest report i.s that Phyllis and Berenice Zitenfiekl, twin sisters, aged only 13, of New York, will attempt to swim the English Channel this year! At the women’s inter-club athletic sports held recently at Stamford Bridge Miiss ltd wards (Middlesex), ran S2B yards in 26sec. beating the world's women’s record by 1-osec. 5 bung cooks with cloth, protectors over their spurs, which make them look ais if they are wearing boxing gloves, are preparing for the cockfighting s.eason in secluded Yorkshire farms. Here they are trained for the important mains which will be held in quiet places on the Yorkshire moors m a few weeks’ time. These cocks go through a training much like that of a prize-fighter. They have sparring partners, and a> special diet, which in some cases includes port wine. In a match: steel spikes are fitted to their •spurs, and thev battle to the death