The Archive · 1938

At Swimming Winners Now Considered Best in Europe

Budapest, July 18

Germany proved to be predominant in European swimming by beating the Hungarian team, up to now generally considered the strongest European aggregation, by 27 to 17 points in the 19th international swimming contest between the two countries.

The sensation of the day was caused by the defeat of the Hungarian Olympic champion Fereno Czik by the German Helmut Fischer in the 100 metres free style in 1.00.6 minutes, Of the total of nine competitions Germany took six first places—Trans-Ocean.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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