Frank Gabsy, who has lost his right leg, accomplished the big feat of swimming from Hastings pier to Eastbourne pier, a distance of fourteen miles as the crow die?, in the excellent time of five hours forty minutes. Professor Davenport once tried the swim, but had to give up at Bexhill.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1314, 18 December 1911, Page 3
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51Untitled Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1314, 18 December 1911, Page 3
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