SWIMMING.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1747, 30 August 1905, Page 49

SWIMMING.

ATTEMPTS TO CROSS THE CHANNEL. LONDON, August 24. Miss Annette Kellerman (the Australian swimmer) and Burgess and Horace Mew started to swim from Dover to Calais at 7 cy’clock. When Miss Jxeilerman was two miles ahead, she withdrew owing to sear sickness. Burgess and Mew abandoned the attempt to swim |ter they (like Miss Kellerman) had swum eleven miles. Holbein started in the afternoon, but relinquished the attempt late at night, after covering sixteen miles. LONDON, August 25. Miss Annette Kellerman, the Austrar lian swimmer, v’ VI make another attempt to swim tiie Channel next year. Burgess is'a Yorkshireman, weighs 15st, and is about thirty-six years of age. Until last year his swimming was mostly done in the French chainpionsiiips. On September 7th, Weidmann and Burgess attempted to swim the Channel, but the former’s pace was too slow for hifl companion, who left the water after two hours. Next morning Burgess made another attempt, and swam by himself. This swim was regarded as the most remarkable of the year, and in some respects it was held to be the greatest since Webb’s his ic effort. Burgees covered fifteen m:lc s out of the twentycne necessary in B<irs 22min, and justification for his abandonment of his effort can be found in the fact that the sea washed over the mail-boats, and caused people on the tug accompanying the swimmer to become seasick. On July 30th last Burgess made another attempt, and got within foU* Nniles of Calais.