Miss Gleitze Deterred by Cold Water

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 553, 4 January 1929, Page 6

Miss Gleitze Deterred by Cold Water

LONDON GIRL LONGS TO TRY COOK STRAIT SEEKING WARM SEAS!

IyTERCEDES GLEITZE, the London typist© and distance swimmer, is tired of swimming in cold waters. That is why she is coming to New

Zealand to attempt to cross the Cook Strait! New Zealanders, who know their Cook Strait, will be expecting Miss Glcitze to receive the surprise of her life when she arrives at the scene of her proposed After four unsuccessful attempts to swim the Irish Channel because of the cold water, Miss Gleitze said: “I just long to feel some warmer water in New Zealand, so far removed from

the ice-floes of the North Pole. I am tired of bathing in cold water.” The London girl has heard so much about the Maoris, too, that she feels

that she is irresistibly attracted to New Zealand. She is inspired with enthusiasm to come to the Dominion. Miss Gleitze had eight attempts

before she crossed the English Channel, and five before she conquered the Strait of Gibraltar. Her swim of the English Channel was ridiculed so she made another unsuccessful attempt. How Miss Gleitze will fare in her struggle with Cook Strait waters remains to be seen. Lily Copples tone, of Ashburton, is planning an attempt this summer, too. The only recorded attempt to cross the Strait

| was by the Aucklander, Ronald Webster, a season or so ago, but he failed because of the cold, after being lin the water for several hours.