A K.C. ON SWIMMING.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 216, 19 September 1911, Page 6

A K.C. ON SWIMMING.

Sm- Harry Poland, K.C., contributes i.O the Marine Magazine an article on "Swimming and Bathing," in which, he gives advice from his own experience to those avlio wish to become good swimmers. He say*: ''One gr^at thing for a swimmer to accomplish is to swim without depending ca t-h.3 use of Iris hands, thus leavmg them free for other purposes," and he rooomniends the swimmer to learn to dress and undress. m the water, :uhl to practise swimming while wearing heavy clothes. "I have jumped off tho Admiralty Pier at Dover completely clothed, including a thick winter great-coat," he adds, "and I found no difficulty in swimming. Whc-p I lived on the banks of the Thames, at Strawberry Vale, Twickeriiam, I used," says Sir Harry, "at a-quarter past seven every morning, summer aiid winter, to plunge into ■bin- river. Cold bathing in winter will not, of course, do for a man whose liver is sluggish or whose heart in weak. As I had to lead a sedentary life it must: not be supposed that a-t any time I was an athlete; on the contrary, I was never very strong, and I mention this solely for the purpose of stowing tliat with the exercise of common prudence silmost overy youth can do what I was in the habit of doing."