CHANNEL BEATS SWIMMERS
LITTLE PROSPECT OF SUCCESS A. and N.Z. LONDON, Sept. 8. There are still many aspirants to swim the English Channel, the chief stimulus thereto being a prize of £1000 offered by a .London paper. There is little prospect of anyone succeeding; most of them are about as likely to succeed in swimming the Atlantic as the Channel, for the water is getting colder and strong tides almost invariably intervene, sweeping the swimmer back to mid-Channel, when he has reached four or five miles from the coast. The Australian. Tom Morris, was regarded as the most likely to achieve sucoesa, but the weather was too much lor him. Channel boatmen think it will be a long time before anyone sneceds in emulating Burgess' great feat. AUSTRALIAN'S CHALLENGE. A. and N.Z- LONDON. Sept. 8. Tom Morris, the Australian, challenges any Channel swimmer to a race of 20 miles on the Thames in five mile stages, using successively free style,, side stroke, back stroke, and breast stroka.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18192, 11 September 1922, Page 7
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