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PAGE FOURTEEN THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1928 lA AAR BRITISH SWIMMER 'CHART OF (By Canadian Press) London, Oct. 5.--There is consider- able mystery attached to the Eng- lish Channel swimming course from nd to France being plotted by T. W. Burgess, one of the three men who have swum the channel from 4 the English side. * "It has been proved beyond doubt ' that the English Channel can be } swam within fifteen hours, but only from France to and. During the past three years very fast swims have been put up in that direction, Michel, of France, claims to have accomplished the performance in 1n hours, 6 minutes--although that rec- ord has not been, as yet, accepted by the Channel Swimming Association-- while Miss Gertrude Ederle, of New York, the first woman to cross, took 14 hours, 30 minutes, her feat being authenticated by the Association, Record S But there is still a very fine record awaiting to be broken, and that is the one of 21 hours, 45 minutes, put up by the late Captain Webb, who crossed from Dover to Calais in Aug- ust, 1875. Although over half a cen- tury has elapsed, that record remains unchallenged, . In fact, the swim from England to France has only been accomplished by two other swimmers: Burgess, an Englishman, in 1911, who took 2 hours, 35 minutes, and H. Sullivan, an American, 12 years later, in 20 hours, 50 minutes. When will the swim from England to France be attempted again? The Dover Corporation has offered a gold challenge cup for the first swimmer to cross by that route, but the ques- tion has often been raised: Can it be done under 20 hours? Conditions are by no means the same as on the journey from Cape Gris Nez to Do- ver, Aspirants have started from prac- tically every yard of beach east and west of Dover. All the so-called ex- perts have expressed their opinions as to the course, but it remained to Burgess to work out the course from England as a result of his many at- MAKES A CHANNEL COURSE ess who found rom France. Attempts previously had been made from the rocks under Cape Gris Nez lighthouse. Three years ago. when Madame Sion started from that po- sition, she was to have been accom- panied by Burgess, but Burgess was missing, and it was several hours af- terwards "that the people on the tug Alsace, accompanying the Frenchwo- man, noticed someone swimming to- wards the tug from an easterly di- rection. A t was put out and that some- one was discovered to be Burgess, All thought that Burgess had over- slept. But no, "Bill" had a scheme of testing the tides he wished to work out, and he took advantage of the presence of the tug to put his scheme into practise. Judging his time, he entered the sea from the Beach at Cape Gris Nez, at a spot a mile from the usual start- ing place. He caught the current he had been working out, and as a re- sult of his deliberations he decided to start the next swimmer from the beach at the Cape. Soon success was assured, and this has been practically the same course followed by the swimmers who cross- ed' to Dover in good time. Mystery Course But Burgess has another course, if not two, up his sleeve for the swims from Dover. Now, what is Burgess's mystery course? To a newspaperman he re- cently said: "If I gave out the course 1 should steer from England to France they would say I was mad, 1 count on 17 hours, perhaps less, and landing at--" "I have not tested it, so it is noth ing but a theory, and I steer the op- posite way to what would be expect- ed the first three hours, I do not start from near Dover, but pass south-west of the Ridge and the Varne. I would not like to say more myself, but you can work out some- thing interesting if you use a tide book and work backwards." tempts and it was Bi the "Ederle" course Tested the MINUTE SEARCH "FOR PROSPECTOR Big Party Will Set Out to Hunt Missing Ontario Man Cobalt, Ont., Oct. 5.--In a final attempt to locate John Dick, pros- pector of Gowganda, Ont,, who has been missing since September 2 last, it has been proposed to organ- ize a search party of such propor- tions, that the searchers would not be more than ten feet apart. The plan calls for a thorough search of the area near the claim in Shining Tree where Dick was last seen. Senator Bureau at the trial won for the missing man since he was reported lost, but the underbrush is said to be so dense that it is impossible to see more than a few feet in any direction, and owing to the small number of men enlist- ed in the hunt, not much territory has been covered, TIME TABLES New Schedie. taking hens 1201 ule taking effect a Sunday, April 29, 1926, x A Lad L] 10.05 a.m, Daily, 2.04 pm, Daily except Sunday. 8.03 p.m. Daily except Sunday, 1,10 p.m. Daily, 2.09 a.m, Daily, times shown above are times trains t from Oshawa Station, CNR, TIME TABLE Effective Sept, 23, 1928, % All times given are Standard not Daylight Saving. Easthound 8.23 a.m. Daily except Sunday, 8.58 a.m, Sunday only. 9.59 a.m, Daily. 1,17 p.m, Daily except Sunday. 2 p.m, Daily except Sunday, 7 p.m, Daily except Sunday, p.m. Daily, p.m, Daily except Saturday, .m, Daily, ,m, i a.m, Daily, Daily, , Daily except Sunday. ,20 a. Daily, 07 a.m, Daily except Sunday, p.m. Daily except Sunday, p.m, Daily, p.m. Daily except Sunday. p.m. Sunday only, p.m, Daily 'except Sunday, 0 Tw =] oun gs po wa ou pS: 83 tn .m, R am Lm, » 83 at =8% a & Whitby, Oshawa, Bowmanville BUS LINE 9.30 a.m, 35 p.m, 2.3 p.m, 3.35 p.m, 3.45 p.m. Arr.4.00 p.m, 4.45 p.m, 5.05 p.m, SIMCOE ST, NORTH EYESIGHT SPECIALIST Author of The Eyes in Modern Life Optometry Feature Service Your Eyes and Health Eye Care and Eye Strain Disney Block ite Post Office 1516 ~:~ PHONE ~:-- 1516 Bankrupt Sale of Clothes Shop. Dominion Clothing Co 68 King St, W. Phone 2141 We Deliver English DARING AIR STUNTS THRILL SPECTATORS AT ST. HUBERT FIELD . Planes Hurtle Through Air in Race While Army Fliers' Exploits Excite Crowd Montreal, Oct. 5. -- One of the most remarkable aerial displays seen in the Dominion was staged Monday afternoon before nearly 20, 000 onlookers at the St. Hubert air- port. The stunt-flying program that thrilled the spectators with the dar- ing feats accomplished and the big 30-mile air derby followed the of- ficial inauguration ceremonies of the first international airmail ser- vice between the United States, Mexico and Canada. Breath-taking exploits on the part of Royal Canadian Air Force pilots who used Siskin Fighters for he exhibitions were applauded and vigorously cheered by the thou- sands of visitors, The four machin- es went through every conceivable ind of tactics, even to a sham- mbing attack on the western end of the big drome. The planes zoom- ed, looped the loop, rolled, side- slipped, dfpped, shot down within yards of the amazed crowd, rose quickly again to a height of 1,500 feet to perform further. Won Aerial Race The first heat of the race for the $500 prize and trophy provided many thrills when Captain F.-G. M, Sparks chief instructor of the Mon- treal Light Airplane Club, flying a Moth plane, shot in ahead of the rest an easy winner. At the com- mencement of this heat an accident was narrowly avoided when a spec tator, standing too mear the rum- way, was nearly clipped by the. wing of one of the contesting ma- chines. The aerial derby, which was ev- entually won by Capt. Sparks, was flown over a 30-mile triangular course extending from the air- drome to a tall chimmey and thence to a white cross mear Ste Julie de Vercheres. It was run off in two heats and a final. The time of Capt. Sparks, win stood at 18.35 minutes, which in- dicated that he averaged over 110 miles per hour. Second place was captured by E. Leigh Capreol, fly- ing also in a Moth owned by the de Haviland Company of Canada. His time was 18.50 minutes. Capt. H. Spooner, in one of the Granby Air Club's Moth machines, was third with a time of 18.58 minutes. R. S. Horsley, of the Canadian Air Express and Capt Earl M. Hand, president of the Toronto Flying Club, were fourth and fifth vre- spectively. 'Was Handicapped Capt. Sparks' machine was handi- capped 2.11 minutes after zero and other planes were handicapped as follows: Capreol, 1.21 minutes; Spooner, 2.11 minutes; Horsely, 1.21 minutes; Hand. 6.09 minutes; and Vachon, 6:09 minutes. Officials in charge of the race were: Squadron Leader A. T. L. Cowley, handicapper; R. A. Loader starter, and W. 8S. Lightfall, judge, Other planes entered were a Swal- low, flown by Capt M. E. Jones, In- ternational Airways; a Moth, flown by G. K. Edward, International Air- ways; a Monocoupe, flown by Geo. Trim, Continental Aero Corpora- tion; a Moth, flown by Dougall Cushing, private owner; a Swallow, flown by Edward O. Champagne, International Airways; and a Viek- Canadian Transcontinental Air- ways. . A large Junkers monoplane, sim- lar in every respect to the Bremen of transatlantie fame, flew up {rom New York manned by two pilots and two mechanics, The machine, while not as large as the two Ford- Stout trimotor machines, is never- theless beautiful to watch while in the air and Monday it was the most graceful plane im flight. Many pas- sengers were taken for a trip about the city in this and in other ma- chines. One of the last loads to view Montreal from the sky was a group of nine policemen. Mail Hea Customs ands postal officials were more than busy handling the large amount of mail that had bezn con- signed for the air routes. Bage of mail labelled '"'airmail service" were arriving all day by special truck from the city. 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