A RECORD SWIM.
GIRL’S GREAT ACHIEVEMENT. Ih STRUGGLE FOR 30 HOURS. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received Aug. 10, 3.1*5 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, August 9. Jenny Kammersagaard, a farmer’s daughter, aged 19 years, weighing 15 stone, after a 30-hours’ struggle with the waves and currents swam from Zealand Island to Jutland, a distance of 88 kilometres. This Is a world’s record. She wore atookings, a waterproof watch, and a bathing-cap, and was greased all over. She subsisted on hot potatoes, soup, tomatoe-s, and bread and butter. Thousands cheered the landing. 100 METRES RECORD. BROKEN BY A RUSSIAN. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received Aug. 10. 3.15 p.m.) PARIS, August 9. The French swimmer Jacques Cartonnet, who yesterday covered 100 metres backstroke in 69 4-ss, achieved the record by using a new butterfly stroke, but to-day a Russian, Boitchenko, using the breast-stroke, broke Cartonnet’s record by Is.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20268, 10 August 1937, Page 8
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145A RECORD SWIM. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20268, 10 August 1937, Page 8
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