CANADIAN 15=MILE SWIM
AVON BY AMERICAN. LAST YEAR’S WINNER IN TROUBLE. (United Cress Association- By Electric Telegraph Oopy right.) TORONTO, Aug. 31. George Blagden (Memphis, Tennessee), a lawyer, won the 15-mile Canadian exhibition swim to-day. Gianni Gambi (Italy) was second and Isadore Spomdor (Port Col’borne, Ontario) third. George Young, the winner last year, was almost drowned when he bumped into a buoy while in fifth place about half-way. "He sank, but other swimmers dived and brought him up unconscious. He recovered when taken to hospital.
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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 2 September 1932, Page 5
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