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Show Fortune Now Certain For Young Victor Youth Is Only Starter to Finish In Field Of 103; Two Women Awarded Prizes LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 17. (UP) With fame al-eady al-eady his, George Young, 17-year-old conqueror of the Cata-ina Cata-ina Channel, today prepared to reap the fortune which was tssured by his swimming conquest. From William Wrigley, chewing gum magnate and owner jf Catalina Island, Young will receive today a check for i25,000, the grand prize in the ocean marathon, in which the Toronto boy headed a field of 103 contestants. Young was :he only one of the entrants to complete the frigid crossing. i I'yle Offers Contract That Young's crossing of the previously pre-viously unconquered Zt-inile, stretch, .xrouding from Catalina to the mainland, was to hear fruit in . the world of professional sport, was indicated in-dicated by : handlers of the Canadian Cana-dian youth, who said C. C. Pyle had offered him n contract to an-, history of sporting contests. Young, was a poor boy, who hnd difficulty difficul-ty in financing his way to the scene of the swim. ,v Women Hold Fight Tag tense drnma of two women, one middle-aged nnd married, the other a young working girl, fighting fight-ing against insurmokinilible odds pear with his professional trouiie. Young was recovering today at Ihe Seaside hospital, Long Beach, from convulsions which attacked him yesterday as an after-math of his battle with currents nnd cold over a period of more than 15 hours. Mrs. Margaret Hauser of Long Beach, Calif., .and Miss Mhrtlia Stager of Portland ,Ore., who were dragged from the water almost at the same time, within a few miles of the mainland, were each to received re-ceived a $2,500 qWck for . their plucky efforts to complete the swim after Young had finished and all other contestants dropped out. The exhibition of grit shown by those two, together with the successful suc-cessful finish of a youth in his 'teens, made a fitting climax fo one. of the most spectacular events in the t for more than 19 hours, commanded command-ed the respect of the entire sporting sport-ing world. No niah in the meet was able' to remain hi the race for so long a time. Buffeted by a choppy sea that came almost with the break of day, a strong ebb tide, heavy fog and cold water, the two women, battling for the $15,000 women's prize, were removed from the water forcibly when further exhaustion presented the risk of death. Both women, were reported to be recovering today, as was Norman Uoss of Chicago; one of the pre-race pre-race favoriets. Ross suffered excruciating excru-ciating pains in his legs and abdomen abdo-men which forced him to give up at a point about one and one-half mile sfrom the mainland after swimming swim-ming for J5. hours and '20 minutes. |