SWIMMING
Although the doctors tell us that no human being can remain under water for more than two minutes without being suffocated, Professor Finney, the wellknown swimming expert, demolishes this theory nightly, in one of the London theatres. Finney calculates that in the course of a single year he remains under water for more than nineteen hours ; drinks 2,555 pints of milk; picks up with his mouth (when under water his hands are tied) no fewer than 27,375 coins, and plays 365 games of nap.
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VI, Issue 298, 9 April 1896, Page 3
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85SWIMMING New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VI, Issue 298, 9 April 1896, Page 3
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