COOK STRAIT SWIM.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20177, 4 March 1931, Page 14

COOK STRAIT SWIM.

MISS GLEITZE>S EFFORT :"MAY BE POSTPONED, Y) [THE PRESS Special SwWce.l i ■ ■■ ' r , > «%"> ) t * ( \ -WELLINGTON, March Sf B^clv 1 from 'Sydney,Gleitzesaid to-day that she will decide on .advice from a Cook Strait fisluefman whether 1o < attempt the this.year. J-If the advice is adverse/' she said, "I> can come out again." "I "will not start'unless'the day.'is fine and' said'"Miss '.Gleitz^ia 1 an interview with a ( 'Dominion" reporter. '-'My experience of 'previous long-distanCe swims is that it is "futile to attempt to stay in cold wj&tex, which Cqok Strait • undoubtedly is, there is, compensating hot, punshine.xlt would •be foolhardy* to' majre,, the 'attempt- on, a dull "day,v i ■ : "I quite realise that! have -the 'big- ► gest v swim life 'bqfore md;;but , given satisfactory .vweatfcar; I feel very.- confident. Cook Strait may bet compared.' with.the Irish Ofejumci, whicji, as yet, las not-been swum. When I attempted it" 1 got within "one and a , half , miles, of "the shore/^ If experts consider it' inadvisable to attempt 'to Strait* this'BjjaBon, Miss Gleiljze. will Teturn" to land, and come out again next year, , Cook Strait ■vvas'. a' very formidable swim jshe said, oaf sW-added that she*fto~ give it a good go.**