SWIMMER LOSES WAGER
DESPERATE CHANNEL EFFORT. Captain George Morris almost paid with hie life recently for a desperate attempt to swim the English Channel for a wager of £IOOO to £l. Ten miles out ho was suddenly seized with cramp and collapsed. Fortunately the trainer, “ Billy ” Kellingley, who had been watching Captain Morris anxiously, flung an oar over the side of the pilot boat. The pain-racked swimmer was with difficulty dragged aboard and given first aid treatment. Captain Morris’s attack was unfortunate, because he had covered the 10 miles from the South Foreland in the fast time of four and thi’ee-quarter hours. He swam without goggles or a helmet and on his back. “The salt in my eyes rather troubled me,” said Captain Morris. “ I had been feeling the cold, too, but I was caught unawares when both my legs were attacked by cramp. If that oar had not been pushed out to me, I should have gone under. I may make another effort, but not this year. I am glad that I did not make too bad a show.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22098, 31 October 1933, Page 10
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