CHANNEL’S DEFIANCE.
SWIMMERS FACE BIG TASK. London, Sept. 8. Morris (Australia) challenges any Channel swimmer to a twenty miles race on tike Thames in five-mile stages, successively using a free style, side stroke, hack stroke and breast stroke. There are still many aspirants to ewim the English Channel, the chief stimulus thereto being a prize of £lOOO offered by a London paper. There is little prospect of anyone succeeding. Most of them are about as likely to succeeded in swimming the Atlantic, as the Channel water is getting colder and strong tides almost invariably intervene. sweeping the swimmers hack to mid-channel when they reach within four or five miles of their destination. The Australian, Morris, was regarded as most likely to achieve success, but the weather ‘was too much for him. Channel boatmen think it will he a long time liefore anyone succeeds in emiflating Burgess’ great feat.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 230, 11 September 1922, Page 5
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150CHANNEL’S DEFIANCE. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 230, 11 September 1922, Page 5
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