SWAM THE CHANNEL
; SOUTH AFRICAN GIRL’S ~ SUCCESS., ... •. . IN REMAIIKALE TIME. (United Press Association— By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 10-30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. ,10. ; Miss Peggy Duncan, . aged nineteen, a South African, swam the Channel in 16i hours. She landed at Dover where she was hailed on her wonderful achievement. Miss Duncan, made a rdmarkable spurt over tile 1 ;;la|st ;[ hundred yards, as’if competing in a .. race. She was not exhausted and Climbed out unaided. .The record swim’was made by. G-. iMichei -on September 10tli, 1926 y in ■ .11 hours, s 'minutes. ' { V V "-TT
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1930, Page 4
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