Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-05 | Page 14 | Channel Swim Scheduled by Sturdy Briton

Channel Swim Scheduled by Sturdy Briton LONDON July 5 P E. P E. E H H. Temme London swimmer r and water polo player who holds the record time tune for swimming the English channel channel s as accepted accepted ac ac- ac- ac d by the Channel Swimming Swimming Swimming Swim Swim- ming association has association has started training for lor one of th the most ambitious programs of lon long distance swimming ever at at- tempted His chief object Is to swim the channel in record time from England to France France France-a a feat at credited only to Captain Webb 1875 T T. W. W Burgess 1911 and H. H Sullivan 1923 and md and to win a cup offered b by bythe bythe the town of Dover for or the fastest fastest fastest fast fast- est France England swim of the year Temme who Is employed in ina a London insurance office swam the channel from Cap Gris Nez to Dov Dover r sev seven n years ago aco in 14 11 hours and 29 minutes beating Miss Gertrude Ederle's record of 1026 1926 by five minutes He also hopes to attempt this summer a n swim across the Bristol Bristol Bris Bris- tol channel chann l. l a n distance of 21 miles in strong currents and a swim of the l length of Lake Windermere Neither has yet b been n swum Lake Windermere in the county of Westmoreland is iJ only a mile 12 swim but has remained remain cd unconquered owing to the coldness S. S of the water