SWIMMING.
■WOMAN'S REMARK ABLE FEAT. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAIILE ASSOCIATION. LONDON, August 21. Alls Hamilton left Capo Grisnu (France) at 11 on Saturday morning and only gave up after 20 hours continuous swimming, which is a world’s record for a woman. Interviewed by the “Daily Express” she said she commenced the attempt two days before originally planned, because she had terrible dreams during several proceeding nights. “In which.” she said “depicted myself .struggling and battling in the water. The verst part of tho ordeal came with darkness, dense foghanks rolled up, the ship’s hooters added to the weird and i.ncaainy experiences and 1 heard porpoises hashing all round. My companions slated we had passed the north Goodwin lightship. At dawn my endurance was most severely taxed. At the beginning of the flow I felt I was being carried down the channel and was totally unable to proceed I was practically helpless and had to ho taken ant bodily into the boat. When I recovered, I felt like a jolly goad cry. 1 was terribly disappointed to get so near and yet fail, but I intend to try again in 1922.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1921, Page 1
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190SWIMMING. Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1921, Page 1
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