Show MAN HAS FLOWN THE BUT HE SWIM IT s e et ft 1 a t e I a n c I Iv a j j i r r v j jc z 1 c i Jv t r 1 f 1 r i oe t r CAPT o ow ob b i w A F r r rf rc cx pi e i iM f c a 1 x r 1 M a f s y 7 0 1 k A rP t 1 0 1 q i iw i ir r f i r t t tib rot K a s J 1 s y 9 a vf ia s i ii i c r rF rv rr F v r j aE 1 r vY j w waE k kl e v 4 l 1 F I r r i k ki s b a s t a i Principal Contenders in in English Channel Swim ing Honors H t r THE SUCCESS h Name Mile Milea fe lime 34 rr Capt Matthew Webb 39 2145 2147 21 45 r l ri 1 q THE FAILURES F AlLURES t c t B Be Bat t trial I j f a 1 t No AiM At Mile From goal t Name N me tempts age a Time T Mile Milt M A Holbein Hobe 7 50 2321 21 12 Iz rZ i T W 8 49 19 1964 f 54 4 1 a Jabez J Jo Wolffe wOl C 3 2 21 1000 5 r 3 Annette Kellerman 3 21 1030 30 1 G C o f I 7 fT t A I f I w f I I HOLBEIN HOL READY ADY TO r BODY TARTH DIL OILED ID J I HEAD ADJUSTED HARNESS c 5 i ir r e w 2 WHO HAS HA MADE SEVERAL RAE 1 FUI F ATTEMPTS TO TOn TOEN f SWIM eu u uS A ao n ENGLAND EN V j jr 1 a S m r D S Nl i iIi Ii J o 2 x 3 f 1 I II n A i w SAl AU AM eM G I I r N 1 c cROUTE A Pd o rg ROUTE 7 F J l ru IN JN MID CHANNEL c c 1 CHANNEL i 1 SWIM R t 4 r cv HE English has It been much in 1 ire 18 9 public eye the last few week through rough th tha tho T feat of M X Louis Louie Bl d riot t the trench French ait avi tor who c the turbulent lent waters water from troll to Dover in 2 1 1 minutes But mut the hardy wh are aNI now engaging Ir lit bt their annual onI f t with the sea are ere not DOt t II blear l M d with mono monoplanes planes biplanes biplane storage battery fr fir Wings wing WIn to ass a si t them in emulation of the achievement t of Cai Capt apt t Mat MatI I v Webb on Aug Auy 2426 45 1875 1876 Success H if It comes wLL b be brought to them by b their sturdy toray arms rm ms and leg legs vf t 1 t there will be no prUe It them in T r 1 i the u p of the athletic world sI a f few w r lines lilies of or approval True there them will b be ec fort further fu rt 11 er thou than t the demonstration that lb the human race nce has ha not nn r tr radea eJ since al the days da of Captain Webb W and the tha t h a aperS personal perS DaI exultation n that su iu success In physical p l prowess powe s I hw has always alwa aroused in man mance n since nee the biblical day 9 3 when Cain slew sl w his brother But the study of t a channel erase reveals some ome I facts and 1 that compel admiration of the doggedness paten and d pure pare love Jove of sport well accomplished t Think of It Thirtyfour years e ago 0 a man swan swaI the English qI h channel but bat despite improved methods method f ti wonderful exhibitions of ot pers attempts annually renewed not mother another other human hr i r k has a duplicated that feat And Anel the hero bero of that ad a T tore lost his life IB la tempting t to do what no DO man r has tec done dO and lived lIve a swim through th h the rapids o r b Niagara river g Channel Sibs Swim SJ r the lite Aquatic Marathon Al swi the th English channel chancel is n nt a ani dir dip t n Lake Michigan Michl or even Mea a dash Ik t through the tile cold w v to one of the city water cribs crt on a II r rda day da In the tempestuous Atlantic AtIs tic give an idea Mel the European feat but bat still it lacks some Tome i me of n essential features that have bave made mad the channel w said and by byman o oman u uman the aquatic Marathon except man manThe The narrowest portion of ta of the ft Oi orfa 1 that runs run between England and trance France is marked v Cape west of Ce and Dover ab a bo f t miles mUe as the crow dies ales and te Is as one om on the frequent contenders describes de It the moving the marine labyrinth where the Waters of ff 1 the neighboring seas seam se cross era and thrust v s q against each tach other In a II capricious setto where is t 1 winds and Hales gales ga 19 make e the despair dt of or i kl a pilots endeavoring to trace out the itinerary of th rh swimmers But the channel swimmer can make no for his goal no matter If It f the sea Ilea be as calm a 1 t mill pond From the Atlantic through the hann i and Into the North sea and vice versa rush ruh the td tid The good flood tiO d or easterly tide according to computation drifts the swimmer some Borne seven miles east of Dove Dov the ebb tide bringing him hack back again and linn taking laking him ht n p sIx miles west of Dover his course being r rep represented rp resented by an Irregular irregular I figure somewhat re resembling the letter W r |