Show A woman becomes seasick and fails dover england aug 24 the thirtieth anniversary of the success of captain matthew webb in swimming across the english channel which occurs today brought out three candidates to emulate the famous swimmer they aro miss anette keller the woman champion swimmer ot australia T W burgess who has already made three unsuccessful attempts to swim the channel and horace mew AH three made an early start from this vicinity under favorable weather conditions after covering six miles miss keller was overcome by seasickness and gave up tho attempt mow gave up after being in the water seven hours another candidate montague holbein afao has already made several attempts to swim the channel started at 4 this afternoon |