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Show SWIMMERS FAIL I IN EFFORTS TO SWIM CHANNEL I LONDON, Sept. :. The English channel, which so long has flaunted; the challenge of Its strong currents, and rough seas before the world's best i swimmers with only two defeats re-1 corded against it. Is again the ob- Jcct of a determined attack. Not only, BWimmora but oarsmen, and even uno girl water cyclist, have been bending i their endeavOrS towards overcoming 'he tremendous obstacle of the turbulent tur-bulent waters. j Mn Arthur Hamilton's failure to swim across last night and thereby be 1 the first woman to achieve success has not deterred Mrs. Hilda Wilding, an-l I other Englishwoman, from making the attempt tomorrow. The American swimmer. renry Sullivan of Lowell. Mass., who made an vinsucces-vf ul effort ef-fort li t week, plans to try again Sunday night. i Lost week, two young oarsmen tatted OUt 10 scull across from England, Eng-land, but were compelled to give up-ReCODtly. up-ReCODtly. Mls-s Zetta Hulls got almo.st I acro3i, on S wnttr cycle but the ma- I chine broke down. The only tvo of the many jwim- I mcra who have succeeded were Captain Cap-tain Webb who crossed In 1875 and I T. W. Hurgesa In 1911. oo |