SWIMMING

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10308, 18 January 1927, Page 7

SWIMMING

CATALINA CHANNEL RACE WON BY SEVEN TEEN-YEAR-OLD - CANADIAN (United Press Assn.— Copyright.) NEW YORK, Jan. 16. • A Los Angeles message says that George Young, 17, of Toronto, Canada, won the Catalina Channel sivim, a distance of more than 25 miles. The official time is 15 hours 42 mmutes. Young received 25*000 dollais, the Wrigley prize. It is expected film contracts and other awards will provide an additional /0,009 dollais. ~ bml ' NEW YORK, Jan. 16. A field of; 96 started on the swim of 22 miles between Santa Catalina and the mainland, which Young, a Conadian, won. The contestants who included eight women, started at 11. Jo a.m. on Saturday. Owing to the cold water fewer than half a dozen finished. —A. and N.Z.C.A. NINETY-SIX STARTERS. •WINNER WAS ONLY ONE TO FINISH. (Received Jan. U p 9 m ,1. NEW YORK, Jan. 16. You no- was the only one of the liinetv-six starters to finish. Meyers, of Ciiicinatti, gave up a mile and i half from shore. Norman Ross, the Chicago favorite, swam even with Young for a time at the start, but crave up when a mile and a hall behind Young, twenty-five minutes before Young finished. Young’s average crawl stroh throughout was fifty-four to the minute.—A.N .Z.O.A.