Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-06 | Page 19 | Trudy's Channel Swimming Mark Still Tops after Eleven Years

Trudys Channel Swimming Mark Still Tops After Eleven Years Bv CHARLES E. HARNER HEMPSTEAD, N. Y., Aug. 6 (AP) The page one itreameri said: 'Trudy Swims CChanneL" That' was 11 years ago today and today Gertrude Ederle sat on the little porch of her frame home as some of those who remembered came by and said hello. Shs said she might go Into the water Ister in the day. "Not for a swim,'' she explained. "I don't go swimming any more; I go bathing." Shs laughed when she said it. She's got just as good a laugh now as she hsd 11 years ago and shs still can laugh at ths fortune she brushed right past without recognizing. It was C C "Cash and Carry" Pyls wbo said, after the ticker tape parade up Broadway and before her vaudeville tour, "I could'vs made her a million." Ieoesnt Snwk. - "You know," shs said. 1 didn't even indorse many things. I bsd ths chsncs at a coupls of clgarets, but I don't smoke." She still keeps "in condition," even though it wss only recently, after months of suffering, that shs came out of a plaster csst. She hsd hurt her back in a fail. Shs doesn't sppear to weigh an ounce over what shs did when shs was ths champion cham-pion of womsn swimmers. "But I'm out of swimming competition com-petition forever," she said. "I'm 30 now, getting to be an old lady. I don't know anything sadder than seeing an ex-athlete trying to make a comeback. Besides thst, the swimming swim-ming records they're hsryring up now make some of my old marks look silly. One Reoord Stands "There's only one of my old records rec-ords thst's still standing. Nobody's sver come closer than sight seconds sec-onds of ths unofficial tiros I set In the 300-meter swim." Shs didn't svsn mention ths fact that her crossing of ths English channel in 14 hours II minutes still Is ths record for women. Shs didn't mention how shs staggered upright on ths ssnds of France witb the gresse which had been her protection pro-tection from the cold washed from her body. She was just sn exhsust-ed exhsust-ed l-year-old girl then with the whole world praising her aa ons of the grestest athletes of sll time. Now she is hsppy in a little boms, even though it's a long way to the nearest glimpse of water. "What do I csre?" said Trudy. "The only thing left to swim is the Atlantic ocean, and nobody can do that And don't believe this stuff you've heard about my eyes going bad. I don't want any sob stories written about me."