SWIMMING.
Miss Fanny Duraok, the note&girl swimmer, of Australia, is back from her E!ur6t>ean : tour. 'Ihl ah interview with' *'tfae; ''Catholic fPrestf' r «he is reporte4 as spying:,: 'pyefr, tjhere in London the water is all fresh, and vxceptitig "at Stockholm, where is the only? ocld ■wateTj" the hiathssar© heated. L;don'ib: like that at all.. Th» halfhot stuff used to niak.€i me feel hor-rMy-ill.- At Stockholm, though, the watea*jt*as like ice, and 1 the Elnglish girls^.came..out ad blue) as tha suits tihey'w'ore. I'ibrokei the SOO metre record f;thefiel the games:" "No," she Baid, rr queßtioned as to the stroke o f the 1 ikglish contestants, "I thought it extremely uhgraceful, and most of the English* "'Swimmers, thouigh it seems ungenerous to say so, are round sihiouldered. 1 wae very disappointed in them." all round, and really, one doesn't 'find the hospitality amongst themiof a very striking quality. They seemed t6 resent am Australian's sucfee«», land I think 1 they couM have better* twrn© to fee beaten by a foreignef thanMby a colonial. 1' "
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Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10380, 5 December 1912, Page 7
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173SWIMMING. Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10380, 5 December 1912, Page 7
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