Show Montreal M Youths Youths- in Canoe Cano Win Fight Against Hazardous Rapids of River CORNWALL Ont July 5 6 AP AP- AP I. I Two Montreal youths whoso hoso light canoe drifted by accident Into the tho hazardous Longue Sault rapid of oC tho the St. St Lawrence river r yesterday came through alive e and were cle clee re recovering ta e covering today from exhaustion Tho The shooting of ot tho the rapids has bas been regarded n. n as an impossibility by experienced boatmen I I Jack Walker and William Savage Sayago Sav Say ago age were traveling from Ottawa to lo Montreal l In their sixteen toot ca canoe ca- ca floe noe and missed the entrance to the to I Cornwall canal anal which would have havo carried them around the rapids Suddenly they found themselves drawn into the the Big Bier Sault SauD th their lr fraU frail canoe buffeted by foot five vav t If scraping barely hidden s and shooting downstream entirely out of ot control at nt express train speed After Aner ten minutes the they found I themselves In Tn the quieter waters of Robinsons Robinson's ba bay The canoe was wac partly filled tilled with water and V Walker leaped aped overboard to swim to shore Fighting swift currents ho to reached the bank and fainted Savage stayed In the canoe as ns It Jt drifted on Into Inlo Murphys Murphy's rapids another an an- other rough stretch Two campers camperson n on an nn adjacent island saw law him hint and arid andset set tel out in a leaky rowboat to tesCUe rescue rescue tes res res- cue him An oarlock broke but they reached him bins lifted HUed him exhausted nom from the c canoe noe and got cot ot him bin to shore with some difficulty The canoe was as left floating toward the tho sea sen Although legend says sn's Indians shot tho the Long Longue o Sault In their canoes a. a hundred years ars or moro more ago only twirl in th the last lal fifty years yearN have small boats entered the rapids Thirty ago James Bullet tried to shoot the rapids in a specially ape ape- daily built boat but it overturned when he lie was half halg way through the I stretch He was swept into an nn inlet and r rescued I In In 1924 two young oung Americans tried the trip In two canoes Both were overt overturned on tho the upper rapIds rap rap- rap rap-I Ids Ida but tho the boys bos clung to their craft and were rescued below tho the I Sault |