Swatow, Oct. 1.
The Swatow Athletic Association, 'a body which has done much in recent years to encourage the pursuit of outdoor sports, had the enterprise to organize a swimming race from Masu Island to Swatow, a distance of about 5% miles, last Sunday. There was a fair list of entrants, and many who were interested went to Masu to follow the progress of the race. Unfortunately a brisk wind blew up at the wrong time, and made a choppy ea, and all but three of the competitors gave up the fight at an carly stage. One struggled on as far as the old fort, about two-thioes of the way, but had to give in at that point and as report says that by that tim most of the spectators and the Judges were suffering from sea-sickness, he must have shown himself a stout swimmer, and deserved better luck than he.met. It is to be hoped that the association will not be discouraged by this rebuff.
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