SWIMMING MARATHON
TORONTO, Wednesday. j The second Canadian National Ex- , hibition Swimming Marathon across j Lake Ontario, a distance of 21 miles, j was to-day won by the German swim- i mer, Herr Ernst Vierkotter, in llh j 43m. The winner swam the English • Channel on August 30, 192 G, in 12h 30m. | Georges Michel (France), who swam k the English Channel ua September 10, j
] 1926, in the record time of llh sm, j finished second. i At the close of the race the winner ! was two miles ahead of the 12 nearest ! competitors. He finished strongly, then j trod water, bowed and threw kisses i to the spectators who lined the shore. | William Erickson (New York- was the I last to finish, but he won the third I prize, as, owing to withdrawals, only three completed the course.—A. and 1 N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 139, 2 September 1927, Page 10
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