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...Clothes. "One day he was taking a swim in the Rappahannock and two girls of low degree ran off with his clothes...
...members of the team must have felt the same way I did when I was going to swim the channel. No one thought. I had a chance of getting across. The newspapers were all sympathetic, but skeptical just the same. I made me awfully determined to succeed...
Captain Matthew Webb in 1875 and William Burgess in 1911 had demonstrated that if you really felt like it you could swim across the English Channel. So that was that. But when various women from the U. S., and fat bakers from the continent began playing hob with the time-record, Lord George Riddell, owner of News of the World (London daily), saw that it would be suitable for a subject of King George's to swim along with them, faster, at least than the U. S. women. He posted ?1,000 ($4,870) to that end. Last week...
Then a commotion on the sea's bright surface caught his eye. Slowly, with cautious curiosity, he circled up that way. It was something ruddy, swimming right on top. That it was no fish could be told from the ribbons and puffs of silver bubbles it made beneath it. It was one of those forked animals from the land, a man. On board the U. S. S. Maryland, gobs spied the shark, saw him swing over to inspect, and follow at no great distance, their buddy, John Radowich of the Pacific battle fleet, who was trying to swim...
...professional swim ming instructor. She saved lives, was decorated three times by King Christian of Denmark. In 1919 she came to the U. S., saved another life, was awarded a Carnegie medal for heroism. Once she swam around the island of Manhattan (42 miles) in 15 hours, 57 seconds. In the same year, she trudgeon-crawled from Albany to New York (153 miles) in 66 swimming hours, stopping, of course, for sleep at night. On this excursion Clemington Corson, assistant superintendent of the U. S. S. Illinois, handled the oars of her rowboat. Later they were married, and now have...