Aucklander Tries Cook Strait Swim
WEBSTER’S BIG TASK
Press Association. ’ ' r J , HE Auckland long-distance swimmer, R. Webster, was to have started this morning on an attempt to swim Cook Strait. It was his intention to start from the Wellington side and swim across to Marlborough.
. Webster, who has for some time been a member of the Ponsonby Swimming Club, has been a consistent starter in the various distance and harbour races held each year here. In the 1925-26 season he won the harbour race from a big field, and the following year was third and registered fastest time. He came out in the Kellerman Cup race, the three mile event held in conjunction with the New Zealand championships, and swam into third place, again registering fastest time. He Is a stayer in the water and possess a great pulling stroke, and as he appears to be in form there should be everything in his favour of accomplishing this great swim.
AN EARLY START DETAILS OF THE SWIM BLENHEIM. To-day. Webster left Picton in a launch at
'3.30 this morning. He was to land on a North Island beach at about 8 a.m. He proposes to attempt to swim to the South Island from this beach, accompanied by a launch containing Pressmen and others.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 270, 4 February 1928, Page 1
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