Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-05-25 | Page 12 | Trudy Hopes Book Will Pay More than Channel Swin

Trudy Hopes Book Will Pay More Than Channel Swim By MARY ELIZABETH PLUMMER Associated Press Sports Writer riter NEW YORK May 25 Gertrude 25 Gertrude Ederle who swam the English channel 10 years years ago and who has been In for three years back has 1 because of an injured turned author She he sat down today at a white topped metal-topped kitchen table in her herden den where sh she keeps all an the trophies of that day when she battled the channel tides and 1 wrote the first lines Une of a book about her swimming career She has baa been working on the f outline for five months her only other occupations being sewing sewing- she aho makes all her own clothes clothes- driving her car with a Do board to support her back and a swim once a Do week She sleeps on a aboard aboard aboard board at night My biggest ambition is Just to regain my former health and be human said Miss Ederle who Is 29 She said she might like to get married some day but had hindered hindered hindered hin hin- dered her romantic prospects by usually going swimming with her dates and swimming away sway from them d ul III doubt If Ill I'll ever over have an- an the channel swim she said rather the tho channel swim she said rathe wistfully When I t read the clippings clippings clippings clip clip- pings it se seems ms like something that happened in a dream Sometimes one of the girls at atthe atthe atthe the swimming club says It wasn't worth It was it Gert But Id I'd d never say that from Ill never forget riding up the Battery In the car with Grover Grover Grover Gro- Gro ver Whalen when I got back and wanting to hug everybody That crowd was something you couldn't buy for ter She picked up a photograph of the crow crowd that welcomed her and said Look at those people Wouldn't It give you heart failure fail tall ure 1 Also In her den on the second floor of the two story gray stucco house In tho the Bronx are souvenirs of her amateur swimming days when she set 29 world records And her typewriter I 1 hope my book will be more ofa of a financial success than my channel chart chan nel aol swim said Miss Ederle By the time I got all aU my representatives tives and managers paid there wasn't much left for tor me