WILL NOT SWIM AGAIN
Our Own Correspondent.)
Gertrude Ederle Sustains a Broken Spine
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LONDON, Oct. 10. Gertrude Ederle, first woman to ewirn the Channel, will never swim again. Gart Evans, American swimming champion, deseribed her plight when h«» arrived in Britain on a visit. "She lies, forgotten, in New York with a broken spine," he said. He d« seribed how she slipped on a loose tile, how the tall, muscular girl who conquered the Channel, became an invalid. For 11 months she was in a plaster cast. ' "On visits to friends she lifcs flat on the floor and gossips to them," said. Evans. "At night she sleeps on a boaTd covered with a thin inch-and-a-hali mattress. ' ' Electric rav treatment and massages are helping her. But an operation may be necessary.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 59, 2 December 1937, Page 6
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