BOAT DRAGGED BY TEETH
Lewis Deane, the 15-yeai*-old son oB a New York dentist, was out in a sailing boat in Long Island Sound with a girl friend lately when the wind fell and the boat was becalmed. Becoming impatient, the boy slipped into the water, held the towrope with his teeth, and began to swim the five miles to land, dragging the boat behind him. In four hours he brought the boat to land> It was after midnight when the boy waded ashore* $ % ;,■/ \f
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21396, 20 October 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)
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