SWAN STOPS A RACE
A swimming race for a challenge cup at Ohertsey has been upset, and the contest declared void by the judges owing to the fierce opposition of a swan. The race was in progress when a big male swan dashed across the Thames and singled out n swimmer with a bnld head for fierce attacks. By treading water and waving his arms the man beat the bird off, and tlie swan then assailed other members so persistently that people on the bank hud to go to the swimmers* defence in a punt. But the swan was resolute or well as angry, and in the end he drove many of the swimmers out of their course and caused the contest to i>a abandoned.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11655, 20 October 1923, Page 9
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125SWAN STOPS A RACE New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11655, 20 October 1923, Page 9
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