GERMAN GIRL SWIMMER.
ENDURANCE RECORD. STRAIN CAUSES HEATH. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegr a ph—Copyright. BERLIN. August 23. hraulem Ruth Hitzig. the most beautiful and courageous ot Germany's girl swimmers, who, on MonUay i ,fompleted a 79 hours’ swim, a world s record, has paid for her record with her life; she died from .heart failure due to strain More than 150,000 paid sixpence each to see her swimming slowly, like an imprisoned fish round 3. pool at Essen. Fraulem Litzig was Kept awake only by a jazz band and * a loudspeaker. Finally, with unseelng eyes and distorted face, Ale collapsed, and was saved from drovn*nS by a swimming instructor, who leapt into the pool. Wrapped in cotton wool. Fraulein Litzig was rushed to hospital. A cheering- crowd thought she was suffering from natural exhaustion. Fraulein Litzig never awoke from her stupor. When her heart- stopped heating it was revived by injections, but the efforts were unavailing.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12430, 24 August 1933, Page 4
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157GERMAN GIRL SWIMMER. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12430, 24 August 1933, Page 4
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