400 WILL TAKE PART IN MARATHON SWIM.
ANTIPODES WILL BE REPRESENTED IN CANADIAN EVENT.
(United Tress Assn.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received August 22, 9.55 a.m.) VANCOUVER, August 21. A message from Toronto states that the Antipodes will be represented among over 400 world aspiring champions in the third Wrigley swimming Marathon on Lake Ontario on Septem ber 5. Forty nationalities and a hundred trades and professions are represented among the entrants for the event. Sixty-six women have entered for the ten-mile swim on August 29, the first five earning the right to compete in the fifteen-mile Marathon.—Australian Press Association.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18547, 22 August 1928, Page 1
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