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Show The Swim. New York, 15. Giving details of the swimming match Dear Coney Island, yesterday, the Sun shows bow the California ohampion came to grief, Webb tried to swim away from Daily, and tbe Californian spurted. The Englishman did his best, and the speotatora on shore and on decks of barges cheered frantically as they watched the struggle between tbe two men. It lasted about a minute, and then Webb Blowly lorged ahead. Daily seemed to got discouraged, discour-aged, and splashed rather awkwardly, though for the most part, an exceedingly exceed-ingly graceful swimmer, in hia eflorte to come up with bis opponent. But despite ail bie exertiona he foil further and further to the rear, and finally gave up the etruggle for eupremacy in speed, although ne still swam on. As he turned the stake boat, at the oloio ol the fourth lap of bis fifth mile, be struck with his knee, and immediately im-mediately threw bis arms above the water, and cried : " Another county heard from." Everybody laughed, but the swimmer bad joked without being at all in a jocular mood. Turning to hs wife, who sat in a boat with Captain Hartley, Webb's trainer, he told her that he had broken bis knee cap, and must abandon tbe contest. He was quickly taken into tbe barge, and there it wiu found that that be had cut bis knee badly. Hia face was purple, bis lipn were blue, and bis bodywns trembling He looked like a man utterly worn out and exhausted, but he said he felt well. |