Show Channel Mermaids to Swim In hi Match Races at Gotham Mrs Corson a and d Trudie to Compete in 42 Mile Swim Around Manhattan Island NEW YORK Aug 30 AP The metropolis Is looking forward to a two forty forty two mile swimming race around tr Manhattan Island next month between the first two women women wo wo- men to swim the Star Spangled Channel as as the London ondon Sunday Herald now describes the tile turbulent st strip p of ot water water between France and England Mile Gade 27 who Is Mrs Clemington Corson and th the mother of a boy and a girl is eager to add defeat of Gertrude Ederle 19 Ina in ina ina a New York swim to her het Saturdays Saturday's Saturdays Saturday's Saturdays Saturday's Satur Satur- days day's achievement of swimming the tile English channel but she wouldn't swim the channel again for a million million mil mu- lion pounds although she swam it once to make malie money for her chil chil- dren Arch Sd Selwyn wyn theatrical producer who Is Mrs Corsons Corson's manager said he would issue a formal challenge specifying that the race take place within thirty days day before the water gets too cold If Miss Ederle should J accept Mr Selwyn said Walter Valter L. L Lissberger would post a ot bet beton beton beton on Mrs l Corson whom he bac backed ted financially In her channel swim Mr Corson swam around the tile Is Island island Island is- is land five ago in sixteen hours Dudley Field Malone advisor to Miss Ederle previously had Indicated indicated Indi indi- that the first swimmer of the Ule channel would consent to a race around Manhattan Island provided she received an acceptable official challenge Mr Selwyn cabled Mrs Corson Coron In Dover asking if she would compete com corn pet pete for Cor a prize offered ed by William Wrigley y yr Jr r. r for a twentymile twentymile twentymile twenty- twenty mile race to Catalina Island In Jan Jan- uary I 1 will swim wlm for the Catalina Is Island Island Is- Is land purse or any other contest you have arranged was the an an- an- an Mr Selwyn said that Mrs Corson dorson Cor Corson dor- dor son had received offers amounting I to for theatrical and other engagements Both women refused to succumb to weariness after their achievements achieve achieve- ments and the resultant exhausting acclaim of the crowds Mrs Corson Corson Cor Cor- son took a Sunday dip in the chan cha r.- r. nel nd Miss Ederle worn out by New Net NewYork's NewYork's Yorks York's too enthusiastic defied def her doctors doctor's orders to rest by going out for a ride In a new roadster given her for defeating th the channel waves Danish are filled with praise of the second swimmer re recalling recalling recalling re- re calling that Mrs Corson was born bornat bornat bornat at Velle Denmark and is is' th the daughter granddaughter and sister 1 of three distinguished Danish mu musS musi l- l clans The colony of men swimmers at Cape Nez Criz-Nez France Is determined determined determined deter deter- mined to go ahead with swimming plans We cant can't let the women da do daIt deit doIt It all this year explained Ishak Helmy Egyptian who plans to tomake tomake tomake make his ilis eighth channel attempt this week After Mrs Cor Corsons Corson's ons on's successful swim he changed his trainer Only one other woman Mme Jane Sion of France Is down another for another try this year 1 Mrs l Corson sails for New York late in September Naval militia militiamen militiamen militiamen men aboard the tile training ship Illinois 1111 Illi nois neSs of which Mr Cor Corson on is as assistant assistant as- as assistant superintendent and where Mrs Corson was swimming Instructor tor for three years have asked Secretary Secretary Sec See rotary Wilbur for the navy to give her an official welcome with a sa salute salute salute sa- sa lute of big guns COPENHAGEN Aug 30 AP AP- AP Mrs Millie Corson the New York woman who la last lart t Saturday swam the English channel from Cape Nez Gris-Nez to Dover is to visit her relatives In Denmark She has written them that she Silo will come to see them next week |