Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-07-30 | Page 13 | Yankee Girl Starts Training for Try at Channel

Yankee Girl Starts Training for Try at Channel LONDON. July 30 CP Shirley May France left for Dover Saturday Satur-day to start training for an attempt to swim the English channel. Tm anxious to get In the water," said the 16-year-old Somerset Mass., miss as she departed from Charing Cross station by train. Accompanying her were her father, J. Walter prance, and her chaperons, coach and manager. Their departure had been moved up three hours by manager Ted iWomer without notice. There was I an air of secrecy. I Only one reporter was on hand at the station to see Shirlev May depart. I The London Evening Standard ' reported "she Is spending the week I end at Torquay before going to1 Dover to do her training." However,, How-ever,, the train she caught was Dover-bound. Harry Boudaklan, 34-year-old Somerset high school athletic coach, said. "Shirley May will have her first plunge fa the channel at Dover Sunday morning. I Intend to start her with-a long swim the first couple of days, then taper of , before the big try.- Shirley May is expected to try her conquest of the 20-mile strip from Cap Gris Nes, France, to Dover sometime after Aug. ft.