SWIMMING THE CHANNEL
A PLUCKY STRUGGLE. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, August 26. Henry Sullivan, an American swimmer, loft Dover last night to swim tho Channel. It was reported that ho was still in the water at 11 o'clock this imorning, hut the sea was choppy. Sullivan abandoned tho swim when three miles off Cape Grisnex, after being 19 y 2 hours in tho water. He covered 35 miles. His chief food was beef steak, cooked on an •'i'-"'"' uj-ing trawler. Ho put up a plucky • 1! ' "'j.f.''- ''"ring tho last five hours, '".it was ■"" "iuk :o Vl:^& progress, and g;i\ up the
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1920, Page 3
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