STILL GAME
OLD SWIMMER'S PROWESS
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
LONDON, August 6.
Mr. M. A. Holbein, the famous swimmer, who is now'7s years of age, last evening swam in the Thames from Richmond lock to London Bridge, a distance of eighteen miles, in five and a half hours.. . . .
ijln Holbein'has had many notable river swims. He made nine attempts to swim the Channel, his last being on his fifty-second . birthday. He was nearest success in 1902, when he gave up within 500 yards of Dover.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 33, 7 August 1936, Page 13
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