Mrs. Clemington Corson's Second Attempt Successful in Not Quite 16 Hours Dover, Aug. 28.
Mrs. Carson, an American, swam the Channel.
She started from Cap Gris-Nez at] 11,30 yesterday evening and landed at 3.10 this afternoon.
Mrs, Clemington Carson, who is 27 years old and the mother of two children, scored the Channel victory at her second attempt. She made first attempt in 1923, when she had to give up owing to bad conditions when one and a quarter miles from the coast.
This time the sea was and she was assisted by the ti She chatted cheerfully with her} husband and with the pilot and trainer who were on board the tug, from which she was fed with loaf sugar, chocolate and cocoa. She was trained throughout largely on sweets.
Mrs, Carson covered the first four miles in two hours, and was within four miles of England at 11.30 in ithe morning, when the strong pros-(pect of her si attracted huge crowds to the shore who watched the thrilling battle for hours.
Mrs, Carson received an ovation from the crowd, She landed exhausted, and collapsed in the arms of her trainer. She speedily recovered.
Mr, Frank Perks, a Birmingham chemist, made a simultaneous attempt to eros the Channel, but gave up when'a mile from England, A Big Money Prize Aug. 28.
Mr, Liss Berger, who financed Mrs, Corson's Channel swim, said to-day that he had placed a $5,000 et at Lloyd's that she would succeed before September. He obtain~ adds of 20 to 1 and thus wins $100,000.—Reuter.
Tumultucus Reception of Miss Ederle in New York New York, Aug. 27.
A terrific din from the sirens of vessels of all sizes welcomed His Gertrude Ederle, who arrived on the Berengaria after her conquest of the English Channel, committee, headed by the ayer and her mother, boarded the Berengaria.
Miss Ederle landed at the Battery and proceeded through dense ds to Lower Broadway and the City Hall, where the Mayor presented her with an illuminated scroll and a medal.
At night she wa the guest of icnour at a huge civi dinner, and afterwards saw the Ziegfeld Follfos. She appeared on the stage—Reuter.
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