ENDURANCE RECORDS
•ndian swimmer's feats . Like so many other countries, India in recent years has periodically suffered from the mania for endurance ro.cords, and swimming and cycling have Usuallj- been the outlet there for this form of exuberance. The latest exploit is that of a Calc itta student named I'. K. Ghosh, who claims to have set up a new record by swimming continuously ■ for 72 hours with his .hands manacled. The thousands who him displayed their enthusiasm when he beat the previous record Py firing bombs. As the task of Sianaeliiig was performed by a civic dignitary, the chief oflicer of the Corporation, and the swim was strictly supervised, a new world record will doubtless be proclaimed. Ghosh easily beat .the previous record of 63 hours a similar feat, set u]> by another noted Bengali swimmer, it. Chattorji, recently in Lahore.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22543, 7 October 1936, Page 21
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142ENDURANCE RECORDS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22543, 7 October 1936, Page 21
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