143 MILES’ SWIM
LEGLESS MAN BETB OUT EAT AND SLEEP IN WATER 44 I AM FEELING GREAT 44 United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. CopyrlghL (Received August 25. 11.50 a.m.) NEW YORK. August 24 Charles Zimmy (43), a legless swimmer, started a 143-miles 4 nonstop swim on the Hudson River from Albany to New York. It is expected the swim will take six days. Zimmy plans to eat, sleep and smoks in the water. A later message states that Zimmy at 9 a.m. had travelled 12 miles. He shouted to watchers: “Tell the folka that I am feeling great. Everything Is going swell.” He hopes to arrive on August 28.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20281, 25 August 1937, Page 7
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