TO SWIM COOK STRAIT.
t * PROPOSED BY MISS GLEITZE.
London, Nov. 12. Miss Mercedes Gleitze, the English Channel swimmer, and victor of the Gibraltar Straits swim, made \two unsuccessful attempts this week to swim the Irish Sea. She says that she proposed to swim Cook Strait in New Zealand. [Miss Mercedes Gleitze has become famous as a swimmer since she first attempted, and failed, to swim the English Channel in 1920. She made several attempts before being- successful on 'October 7 of last year. As the swim was not officially attested, Miss Gleitze made another, trial in icy water on October 22, 1927. The accompanying boat was manned by pressmen and official witnesses. After swimming for over ten hours she was taken out of the water exhausted when a little over five miles from Dover. She then proceeded to Gibraltar, with the intention of swimming the Straits, a feat never before accomplished. Her first effort was made from Tangier on December 16, 1927, but she gave up when half-way across. On January 2of this year she got to within a mile of Tarifa, but was overcome by the ieold. On January 25 she was nearly drowned on her third attempt, being caught in a whirlpool. Other unsuccessful attempts followed on March 12 and April 4, this latter effort being from Tarifa. Nothing daunted Miss Gleitze made a sixth attempt on April 6, reaping the reward of her determination and pluck. Starting from Tarifa, the most southerly point of Spain, she reached Puenta Leona, on the Moroccan coast, after being thirteen hours in the water.] In the Supreme Court at Napier ‘on Tuesday, in the case Jean Cowan v. The King, arising out of an accident between a Government railway bus and a lorry in which petitioner was travelling, the full claim of <£2B6 14s 6d was granted. The claim -was a sequel to the collision on the Wiaitangi bridge last year, when the pupils of the Technical College were returning from the annual picnic. The petitioner’s arm was seriously injured.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3872, 17 November 1928, Page 1
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340TO SWIM COOK STRAIT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3872, 17 November 1928, Page 1
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