SWIMMING.
FOUR RECORDS ESTABLISHED.
(Received Sunday 5.6 ’p.m.) NEW YORK, December 8. At Chicago, four world’s swimming 'records were broken in an interscholastic, contest.. Johnny Weismuller, using the Australian crawl, swam 100 metres in 58 3-5 seconds, achieving his fiftieth world’s record. Peggy Williamson swam 200 yards breast stroke in 1.55 4-5. Sybil Bauer swam 100 meters back stroke in 80 3-5 seconds. John Eardley swam 100 yards breast stroke in 69 3-5 seconds.
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Shannon News, 11 December 1923, Page 4
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74SWIMMING. Shannon News, 11 December 1923, Page 4
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