LEGLESS SWIMMER
(Fress. Assn.—
AMERICAN INTENDS TO ATTEMPT CHANNEL CROSSING
-By Telegraph — Copyright).
LONDON,. Wednesday. The season's most unique crossChannel aspirant is the legless American, Charles Zibelman, who intends to swim from Dover to Calais and return without stop. He expects to be in the water 70 hours. Zibelman claims to bold the world's championship endurance swimming record of 100 hours which he established at Honolulu. He lost his legs in a tram aceident when a newsboy at Chicago.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 286, 28 July 1932, Page 5
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79LEGLESS SWIMMER Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 286, 28 July 1932, Page 5
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