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Married. Margaret Ravior, three-time winner of the Toronto women's marathon swim; and George Young, winner of last year's Toronto men's marathon; in Philadelphia...
...National) is an infinitely less handsome picture than The Kid from Spain (see col. 2) but it follows the same pattern. Instead of being forced by circumstance and his own idiocy to be a bullfighter, its addled hero (Joe E. Brown) finds himself the favored entrant in a marathon swimming race. This is a predicament: he does not know how to swim...
...teeth, dived into the swirling sea. He swam for half an hour, at last reached the beach 150 yd. away, crawled up cut and bleeding to make the line fast. It took three hours to get all hands ashore. Some of the crew's 15 Solomon Islanders could not swim, had to be helped along the line, hand over hand. Once the rope broke, plunged a man into the water. Captain Stanton dived after him grappled, quieted the fellow with a blow, dragged him ashore. At last all were reported saved. It had been thought that Missionary...
Captain Henry S. Bauer of the Dollar Liner President Van Buren, endurance floating champion, went for a swim off Juhu, the Lido of Bombay. India. An off-shore current, too strong to swim against, carried him far to sea. Composing himself. Captain Bauer simply floated about waiting for a shoreward current, was picked up after several hours by fishermen...
...next morning the two Princes, coming down to the beach for a swim before leaving, saw the Signora Kraus with her mother and asked her to join them for a swim which she did. As she is an excellent swimmer she rather outpaced both the Princes much to their amusement...