LILY COPPLESTONE
FAILS TO SWIM CHANNEL
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
LONDON/ August 9
The New Zealand -swimmer, ~|djss Lily -Copplestono left Cape Gris -Nez, at inidnight to swim the Channel. She abandoned the , attempt fto tsy.fm the Channel after; swiimning for 290 miii-ute-s.
Labai* after swimming , for ;.a,h hour, Miss Copplestone suffered.- .-from, fh® coldness of the water, oramp -even-tual-jy causing Iher 'retirement.. (She- Was taken in a motor boat to Dover.'
.She was disappointed at her failure. 'She goes to America on Saturday. She hopes to return to England .next; summer.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1932, Page 2
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