Show MRS IVY GILL SWIMS CHANNEll fourteen Now Have Won Woi Recognition Takes Fifteen Hours DOVER England Oct 14 Dy By By The Associated Press The The number of successful English channel swims was raised alsed to fourteen when Mrs Ivy Gill of f Sheffield landed at Shakespeare beach cb near here shortly after mid mid- midnight midnight night this morning the third woman to o perform the feat In less than a week Mrs Mis 1 Gill year old typist and only recently a bride started from Cape ape One Griz Nez France at a. a m. m yesterday esterday and end landed on the English coast at 1220 a. a a m m. today She was exhausted at the finish of the long grind and her first words on reaching shore here were I cant can't stand The manager trainer and boatman who ho accompanied her announced that they hey were ready to sign affidavits as asto asto asto to the authenticity of the swim Her time of 15 hours bours 9 minutes Is an hour tour 59 minutes slower than the rec- rec record record ord rd claimed by Dr Dorothy Cochrane Logan Mona Milliken of 13 hours 10 minutes and is 33 38 minutes slower er than nan the mark of 14 34 hours 31 minutes set et by Gertrude Ederle Miss GUI Gill trained for the feat In a amill amill mill pond at Sheffield where she says one stroke is Ia as Urine tiring as as six in salt faIt water She used a stroke most of the way across the th channel changing to a breast stroke for fer or three hours because of rough wa- wa tar ter er Her victory brings the tho number of women channel swimmers to five fI a against as a against nine for tho thu men The first firstman firstman firstman man swam tho the channel in 1875 how- how however vcr ever er e while the women have piled up theIr heir score In little more moore than a j cars car's tIme Ime Teh channel swims s to date are Captain Matthew Webb August 1875 T. T r N N. Burgess September 1911 Henry Sullivan and E. E E August 1923 Charles September 1923 Miss Gertrude Ederle Mrs Clemington ton on Corson and Ernst August 1926 George MIchels and Norman rma Leslie 5 Ie Derham September 1927 Miss Mercedes Mercedes' Dr Dorothy Cochrane Logan and Mrs Ivy Gill GUI October 1927 1027 11 27 |