LONG-DISTANCE SWIM
FINN CLAIMS RECORD
(Reeeived 9 a.m.)
COPENHAGEN, August 12
A Finnish railway man, Haemacl Lacinen, aged 29, claims a world’s record long-distance swum. He started from Yalamo, on Lake Ladoga, on the 10th and reached Sortavala on the 11th. He covered 42 kilometres. He was accompanied the whole w T ay by a coastal artillery motor boat with a doctor aboard. His time was 26 hours 15 minutes. —Buu.
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Northern Advocate, 13 August 1927, Page 3
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