BOY’S GREAT SWIM

Southland Times, Issue 20080, 18 January 1927, Page 5

BOY’S GREAT SWIM

ACROSS CATALINA CHANNEL. RICHLY REWARDED EFFORT. New York, January 16. A Los Angeles exchange says George Young, aged seventeen, of Bronts, Canada, won the Catalina Channel swim, more than 25 miles. The official time was fifteen hours forty-two minutes. Young received 25,000 dollars (the Wrigley Prize.) It is expected the film contracts and other rewards will provide an additional 75,000 dollars.—A. and N.Z. ONLY ONE TO FINISH. (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) New York, January 16. Young was the only one of the ninety-six starters to finish. Meyers, of Cincinnati!, gave up a mile and a-half from the shore. Norman Ross (Chicago) the favourite to win, swam even with Young for a time at the start, but gave up a mile and a-half behind Young, twenty-five minutes before Young finished. Young’s average crawl stroke throughout was fifty-four to the minute.—A. and N.Z EIGHT WOMEN STARTERS. (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) New York, January 16. A field of ninety-six started on the swim of twenty-two miles between Santa Catalina and the mainland, which Young won. The contestants included eight, women, and started at 11.30 a.m. on Saturday morning. Owing to the cold water, fewer than half a dozen finished.—A. and N.Z.