SWIMMING.
FRENCH CHAMPION AND BORG TO MEET.
(Uuifced Pre«*j •ABscrnation —-fly Electnu Teltgrapi Copyright.) CAustralian Pra?a AeisociatioD., Received 10.20 a.m., to-day. PARIS, August 30.
The French swimming champion, Jeantaris, is meeting Arne Borg on Saturday and Sunday in four hundred and eight hundred metres races. WRIGLEY MARATHON RACE, (Australian Press Association —United Service.) Received 10.45 a.m., to-day. OTTAWA, August 30. A Toronto message states that 238 entrants, including two women, started to-day in the fifteen miles WTigley Marathon swim for purses totalling 25,000 dollars. At the end of the third lap, George Young (Toronto) winner of the Catalina swim in 1926 quit. Mrs. Evelyn Armstrong, of Detroit* who finished third in the women’s swim a week ago, was forced out by cramp.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 31 August 1929, Page 5
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