Show Former FormerS V a Salt ft lt Lake r Swimmer Sets New San Pedro Channel Record Byron S Summers Negotiates Negotiates 4 a ates tes Course in 13 Hours 35 Min Minutes Minute SAN PEDRO EDRO Cal al April 25 AP Byron Byron Summers 28 Glendale swimmer formerly of Salt Lake hung up a n new W record for swimming the the San Pedro channel yesterday when he crossed the odd mile passage in 13 hours and min min- utes Summers lowered the time of George Young Canadian youth and winner of the Wrigley 25 marathon marathon mara mara- thon last January by 2 hours and 10 minutes Summers slipped sUpped into the water at the isthmus on Santa Catalina island at 10 1015 15 o'clock Saturday night and walked onto the shore at Point VIncente on the mainland at 50 11 a. a m. m yesterday As he stepped on dry land the new channel conqueror was handed a card which recorded the finishing time of the long swim Gripping the the treasured pasteboard with his teeth Summers went back Into the water and swam to his convoy boat waiting waitIng wait wait- Ing a short dist distance nce off shore He lIe climbed in and was rowed to San Pedro for a rubdown rubdown and and rest In the skiff which convoyed Summers Summers Summers Sum Sum- mers across the channel ch were his brother Eugene and Ray Hinsdale an an official of the Amateur Athletic union who acted as an observer The feat also was witnessed by a party of newspaper men who ho followed followed followed fol fol- lowed In a motor launch Summers used a crawl crawl- and averaged averaged averaged aver aver- aged six forty strokes a minute Twice on the way across the choppy course course ourse he was seized by cramps Each time he floated and succeeded in kicking them off In crossing the channel he it It is estimated Is-estimated sw e swam he-swam im twenty-nine twenty miles |