Deseret Evening News | 1900-07-25 | Page 5 | Swimming Contest

sm m n CO Tr 8 to Ils In Iivo hours It fit Lull LOuis July ohn C C M Meyers the St It lull Louis Tul Turner athlete of 01 n as fame U a champion tor today undertook to swim wlm from MIca I Ill to St Lul LOuis under a wage wager to the mi miles In fv five hourI hours le He wu was swimming In strong toc winning tor form at the seventeenth mi mile when a violent storm passed ove over and swamped the bt boat carrying the timer ant and ter lifesaver The accident tor forced Met Meyers to abandon bandon hi his attempt to lo rael reach St Luis LOuis le He trade the seven seventeen ten teen mile In thre three hours houll and nd twenty minute and was nl going briskly when the storm struck