Broke Endurance Record Only to Die
GERMAN GIRL SWIMMER’S FATE United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Wednesday, 7 p.m. BERLIN, Aug. 23. Ruth Litzig, the most beautiful and courageous of Germany’s girl swimmers, paid for her stunt of swimming for 72 hours, a world’3 record, with her life. She died of heart failure, due to the strain. More than 150,000 people paid sixpence each to sec lief swilnming slowly like an imprisoned iish round a pool at Essen. Fraulein Litzig was kept awake only by a jazz band and loudspeakers. Finally, with unseeing eyes and distorted face, she collapsed and was saved from drowning hy a swimming instructor who leapt into the pool. Wrapped in cotton wool Fraulein Litzig was rushed to hospital. The cheering crowd thought she was suffering only from natural exhaustion. Ruth never awoke from her stupor. When her heart stopped beating, it was revived by injections, but the efforts were unavailing.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7243, 24 August 1933, Page 6
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