CHANNEL CROSSING
ON A SURF BOARD. FRENCHMAN’S FEAT. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, October 11. .Somewhat forestalling Miss Lily Copplestone, Roger Tionquet, aged twenty-one, a I reiiohn...;i, eroded the English Channel iiT se\ i-n and a-half hours on a surf board measu.. t lhe feet by two. He was towed ~y a nib-tor fishing boat from Boulogne to Folk stone. Tronquct, who was wearing a greased bathing costume, w.th di AVer fey retained his balance, though holding two ropes. He suffered trim cramp and from bleeding of the feet owing to the wave wash. LILY COPPLESTONE. LONDON, October 10. Though it is over late to swim the Channel, Miss Lily Copplestone hopes to cross the Channel on a aquaplane.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1931, Page 5
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