To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cama Datby News."
Sin,—In your issue of the 19th instant—The American Sports Page—there is an article on English Channel swimmers, which' contains matter taken from a French journal the "Petit Paris-tien" throwing reflexion and doubt on the ability of Captain M. Webb, the first man that succeeded in. swimming the Englisa Channel (irom Dover to Calais).
As one who knows something of the late Captain Webb,. I would like io inform your readers that not only was he a great swimmer but also a brave, courageous gen-
In the early sixties he was a cadet on HIS. Conway (a few years before the writer) and during the two years he was on that vessel, he won all the swimming prizes; later on, when
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