CHANNEL VICTOR HAD HARD FIGHT.
MISS HAWKE IS FIFTH WOMAN TO CROSS.
(United Pres* Assn.—By Electria Telegraph.—Copyright.) i ßeceived August 21, 11.30 am:) RUGBY, August 20. Miss Ivy Hawke, twenty-five years of age, is swimming instructress to the London County Council. £vhe is the fifth woman __ swimmer to swim the Channel and is the first person to swim it this season. Miss Hawke came ashore between St Margaret’s and Kingsdown, after being 19 hours 16 minutes in the water. She had a desperate struggle to finish the last stage. Miss Hawke was trained by Burgess, who with twenty-seven independent witnesses, including three doctors, accompanied her in a tug.—British Official Wireless.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18546, 21 August 1928, Page 1
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