My friend just announced that her grandfather swam in the Olympics, when the swimming competion was done in the Hudson River. She is 40.
What does she mean by this? I don't think any Olympics were in NY, but could they have trained there? Or is she fibbing? :joker:
Just curious...SmartSwimmeroftheDay award to the person who knows!
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Syd you will know when I am joking. Earnest Verkotter a great Channel swimmer was in my escort launch for the race accross Lake Ontario in 1964. They called him the Black Shark even though he was a white man. I should have asked why they called him that.
There are several paragraph about her in the book Wind Waves and Sunburn.
Pages 57 to page 61, trells about her exploits.
At 13 she joined the Womens Swimming Association. At 14 she won the New York Bay 3 mile swim.
She struggled with back problems in later life.
Syd you will know when I am joking. Earnest Verkotter a great Channel swimmer was in my escort launch for the race accross Lake Ontario in 1964. They called him the Black Shark even though he was a white man. I should have asked why they called him that.
There are several paragraph about her in the book Wind Waves and Sunburn.
Pages 57 to page 61, trells about her exploits.
At 13 she joined the Womens Swimming Association. At 14 she won the New York Bay 3 mile swim.
She struggled with back problems in later life.
