| Show 1 canoeist sets record in I 1 crossing english channel london A london clerk who set out fout in a small collapsible rubber canoe for a holiday paddling along the coast of france found afterward to ills his surprise he had broken the record twice tor for a canoe crossing of the channel the startled clerk frank M whittingham twenty five years old will receive a trophy to commemorate the event whittingham harn crossed from dover to wissant bissant Wis sant france in five hours fifty minutes and returned in six and three quarter hours ila 1 I set off from dover he explained P pla ined and halfway across the channel I 1 spotted bad weather ahead and increased my speed I 1 had chad to contend with a heavy gale and was driven out of my course off north foreland 1 I arrived safely at wissant bissant Wis sant and a few days later started back for dover but met with bad weather I 1 was surprised to find I 1 had done the journey so quickly |
