SWIMMING
ENGLISH WOMAN’S RECORDS DISTANCES IN SHORT BATH. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, (Received August 17, 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, August 17. Swimming in an Exmouth dock, 55 yards long, Edith Mayne covered 880 yards in 13min 1 l-ssec, and 1000 yards in 14min 14sec. The former time is claimed aa an English record, and the latter as • world’s record. The world’s record for 880 yards ia held by Gertrude Elderlc, who swam the distance in l3min l&sec in 1923.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12528, 18 August 1926, Page 7
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