FIFTEEN-MILE SWIM
CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION. WIN FOR A TENNESSEE LAWYER. (United Press Association—By CableCopyright.) (Receive 1, 11.55 a.m.) Toronto, August 31. George Blagden, a Memphis (Tennessee) lawyer, won the 15-mile Canadian national exhibition swim to-day. Gianni Gambi (Italy) was second, and Isadora Spondor (Port Colborne, Ontario) third. George Young, the winner last year, was almost drowned when he bumped into a buoy while in fifth position at half the distance. He sank, but other swimmers dived and brought him up unconscious. He recovered when taken to hospital.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 221, 1 September 1932, Page 7
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