NOT AFRAID OF SHARKS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1013, 31 December 1910, Page 6

NOT AFRAID OF SHARKS.

I 1 CECIL-HEAL Y'S GREAT SWIM... • i Cecil "Healy, . the ' i Australian shortdistance champion, shares the. view, with a number of surf, swimmers,;thai sharks will. no.t'. attack human' .beings off the beaches;^S'Yesterday ;Ho 'figured, in a swim/th'at is probably .unique //(says. the •'Sydnejy ';'Telegraph'.^;'.of: i December: 19). .'Ho swam in" the ocean, from- ,a ipoint iabovo ;tho-Nortli. Steyne'sheds'.to the wiU 'at l'airy. Bower, south of tho.South "Steyne: dressing' enclosure. .The distance is something more milejKrA-crew manned the ; .surf, boat !and^a^cohipanied"him on -his' trip.At ; inieryals ..bathers. sprang out : of : the ,boat! and swain' witli Hcaly.' • But his jpace beat them all. off, and-even in; the. last fifty'yards lie; stalled off a sprinter, and finished/up <S comparatively. ' fresh. So ".far;as the''oldest resident 'of Manly knew, this , is'the first timo that a summer.,.has swum the .'length'of tho Manly. Beach'. '.' All the .week nugij • sharks liare been, seeii there in pursuit of "schools of salmon. : .-So far as they were concerned,, however, Healy had an ,ed' 'passage; Ho swam pt a great'pace throughout, . and while the short distance' sprints at the coming Australasian championship carnivals .appear to be. at liis 'mercy' it is certain , that the allconquering Beaurepaire will - not have .any "walks-over" in the long, 'distance events. • ;. ' • . Wliile'Healy was engaged, in his great ■swim a number.of- interested lowed Jum= along: the beach. . '.''He 'was, out in the deep water'beyond the breaking waves, and.thoro were many speculations as to the wisdom of-his. act. - Healy lias now been swimming iff tho surf for.a,number-of years, and is an expert . wave-shooter. Tho prediction that surf bathing would lessen a swimmers pace iii still water has not been borne, out so far as he. is concerned. :