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...world; a famed metropolitan daily recently referred to the "channel-swimming game," thereby placing this activity in the same category with such recognized diversions as "the advertising game," "the cloak-and-suit game," etc. Last week three swimmers attempted to traverse the angry scar of seas between Calais and Dover-Lieut. Col. Bernard Cyril Freyberg, V. C., Mile. Jeanne Sion, Miss Lillian Harrison. Last week's aspirants were veteran swimmers; all, after tremendous exertions, failed...
...began at 8 o'clock one night last week to swim from Cape Gris Nez. He swam all night. At dawn a patchy fog, a westerly wind, a small rain. He swam on. At 11:30 in the morning he was a mile and a half from Dover. His trainer turned a drawn countenance upon the party...
...Sion, then 47, tried to swim the Channel, fell short by seven miles. What difference does the addition of a year make when one is 48 and an athlete? Mile. Sion determined to try again. Accompanied by a tug which contained, among others, Rival Harrison, she took off for Dover in the bright morning. Six hours after her start she was only nine miles from the pale cliffs. But against her, also, the tide turned; the undertow clutched at her thighs; the chill of the seas began to penetrate her courage. Once she was 1¼% miles from shore...
...hailstorm struck her an hour out, but she made extraordinary time. In a little over two hours she made four miles. Four hours out she (vegetarian) took a little food, appeared to get new vigor, increased her pace. Seven hours out she was only eight miles from Dover. No previous swimmer had ever made such fast time. Seven hours and five minutes out she called to an Egyptian, Ishak Helmy, who was "pacing" her.: "Catch me, Helmy." He turned. She grasped him and fainted. Aboard the tug she murmured, "I will never try it again." It was her fourth failure...
...King and Queen went to Dover and crossed over to Calais. They refused the French Government's offer of a special train and proceeded by train de luxe to Genoa, where the royal yacht Victoria and Albert waited to take their Majesties on a Mediterranean cruise...