A new invention has just been put on the market in London for swimmers in the shape of webbed gloves, which enable the wearer to swim with the ease a duck obtains-from its webbed feet, and incidentally they also give added buoyancy. A somewhat similar method of instructing novices in swimming has been used by the well-known Auckland coach, Mr. D. B. Anderson for some years past. Mr. Anderson’s invention was in the form of a disc, fastened to the hand This picture shows a London swimmer using the new webbed gloves.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1051, 15 August 1930, Page 6
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92A new invention has just been put on the market in London for swimmers in the shape of webbed gloves, which enable the wearer to swim with the ease a duck obtains-from its webbed feet, and incidentally they also give added buoyancy. A somewhat similar method of instructing novices in swimming has been used by the well-known Auckland coach, Mr. D. B. Anderson for some years past. Mr. Anderson’s invention was in the form of a disc, fastened to the hand This picture shows a London swimmer using the new webbed gloves. Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1051, 15 August 1930, Page 6
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