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4 | Toronto Girl's Epic Swim |, Was History-Making Feat » By ALEXANDER FARRELL WILLINGBORO, NJ. (CP)-- "One day, many years ago; a tiny 10 - year - old girl driving along the Toronto lakefront -- her father a silly ques- "Daddy, did anybody ever swim across Lake Ontario?" « "No, of course not," replied ther father. '"'That's much too far." ; ' The years wert by and the 10- 'year-old, whose name was "Marilyn Bell, didn't grow much bigger but she became a strong _ Swimmer. Finally, on A cool September night 10 years ago, she went for a swim in Lake Ontario, to 'see how far she could go. About 20 hours later, at 8:06 'p.m. Sept. 9, 1954, she became fhe first person to make it all the way across. "She was so tired she didn't _ know where she was, nor was ),She aware of the thousands of people crowding the Toronto lakefront to cheer her victorious _ arrival. Sitting in the living room of eher comfortable home in this quiet Philadelphia suburb re- -eently, Marilyn now Mrs. Jo- 'seph Di Lascio -- enjoyed re- "ea'ling her brief life "as an 'athletic celebrity but had no- "wish to experience it all over 'gain. NO MORE GOALS "T suppose {t sounds silly to "talk of being in retirement at 'my age," said the 26-year-old "Marilyn, "but I accomplished éverything I wanted to." ... If she had any regrets, they were only that she didn't recall , the very moment when victory was hers. ROOM FOR EVERYBODY-- "The Lake Ontario swim is Marilyn Bell, or Mrs. Joseph "the one that will always meany piLascio, as she is. known in 'the most to me but I honestly! wijjingboro, N.J., has be- and truly don't remember fin- r " ishing it. "T have no recollection of ; 9 actually touching the breakwa-| What stands out in Marilyn's ter, Before I was aware that 1)™emory: was on land again, the last| "Oh, just about everything ex- "thing I remember is seeing a cept the finish," she said. "vague skyline and hearing my| She remembers her nervous- coach, Gus Ryder, saying from ness about 'swimming in dark- the boat 'swim for the yellowjness for the first. time in her) building, swim for the yellow/life and the eels clinging to her building.' \thighs. She remembers how] " badly she wanted to give up in| mt contd ga ™ FOpeRUnE he bleak hours before dawn, "] was amazed when I lis-\0w her stomach ached, hew her legs grew numb and how et i par Ee yr often she wondered how much} 'noise-and. pandemonium ---the farther she had to go. «horns blowing and people yell-| "Toward the end, everybody ing and shouting." kept telling me it was just an- However, she had no troublejother three miles, but nobody remembering the exciting mo-|said to where." | ment, 11:07 p.m. the night of; She also remembers how) Sept, 8, 1954, when she plunged|«'nice and warm" the water| into 'the lake from a log re-|was when she got in. She re-| taining wall in Youngstown,/members the "glorious" sun- N.Y. rise she saw after she had been From Youngstown it is only|seyeral hours in the water. "I a few hundred yards to Canada, |think it must have been the across the Niagara River. The first sunrise I had ever seen." way Marilyn--and a few other! che remembers the renewal) swimmers--intended to go, it is! + contidence she felt when Ry- 32 miles. der, watching over her from a| | Ee ES oe come accustomed to om- company in the water since she swam Lake Ontario alone. ada's. Sports. Hall of Fame. She met her husband, a New) Jersey civil service examiner,| at Atlantic City, N.J., in 1954. He was a lifeguard and she had| just scored her first vig-time) success by becoming the first female competitor ever to fin- ish the Atlantic City mixed marathon. | They have four children, Lisa, | 5, Michael, 4, Janet, 2, and Jodi, 1. | Marilyn, who didn't learn to} \swim properly herself until she) was nine, fs in no hurry to make swimmers out of them. "The oldest one is really starting to swim this year," she said, "but I don't plan to teach her anything but the barest) fundamentals until next year." They go to a schoolyard pool several blocks away. In the meantime, with the an-| niversary of her Lake Ontario} swim approaching, Marilyn was| "very excited" about returning to the scene this month for a special appearance. ti par face acs ed Here, fier children (from left) Janet, 2, Michael, 4, and Lisa, 5, watch as Marilyn 'her weary way across the lake.{1958 si was selected for Can-|has hired her to cover the race.|"Believe me, that's the best) The number of commuters in "Tl be going across in alway. Besides, I'll see what it's\and out of London grows by boat," she said with a laugh. !like at the finish." sin ours cate Sis aad ie auiae emule Gla decane emer etowr Zs 7% SPORTS BRIEFS BELINSKY OPTIONED LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Pitcher Bo Belinsky, suspended by Los Angeles Angels baseball ub for punching a sports writer, was optioned Tuesday to Hawaii of the Pacific Coast League. Left - handed pitcher George Brunet was called up from Oklahoma City. Belinsky will refuse to be op- tioned, attorney, Paul Car- uso, said today, JIM DILLARD OUT CALGARY (CP) -- Halfback Jim Dillard of Calgary Stam- jpeders of the Western Football {Conference will not be able to play for two months, the club announced Tuesday. Dillard suf- fered an ankle fracture as Stampeders whipped Edmonton /Eskimos 39-6 in Calgary Mon- iday. SOUTH AFRICA OUT LANSANNE(Reuters)--South Africa .has iniotmed the Inter- national Olym pic Committee here it cannot comply with IOC conditions: for its participation in the Olympic Games in Tokyo, 'it was announced Wednesday. 'The IOC had called on South | Africa to remove racial discrim- 'ination in sport before it would \be allowed to compete in the 4October Olympics. FIGHT APPROVED | LAS VEGAS (AP) --The Ne-) vada State Ath!stic Commission) approved Wednesday the con-) \tract between Silver State! 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Swim Starts Tonight By STERLING TAYLOR TORONTO (CP)--Twenty-one distance swimmers were éx- pected to enter 65- to 69-degree water at St. Catharines tonight in the first organized attempt to make the 32-mile Lake On- tario crossing since 1957, But water temperatures which are expected to get progressiv- ely colder as the swimmers ap- proach Toronto led Herman Wil- lemse of Holland to predict Wednesday night that "it will be hard for any to finish." Willemse, winner of the last five Atlantic City swims, made the prediction on the eve of the much criticized Canadian Na- tional Exhibition marathon which gets under way at 6 p.m. with a total of $17,500 in prize money at stake, The race {s ex- pected to take about 20. hours. 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If she) oy, has a vague recollection ers, although only three persons| went five miles, I remember + 4 cniash toward nightfall, her|since Marilyn have been able thinking, I would be happy to|,,<om friend, Joan Cooke, div-|to beat the lake. go six and then get out. ing into the water to swim be-| Marilyn, who picked up the Florence Chadwick of side her, and somebody scream-|$10,000 prize originally in- United States, the darling of|i,, 'don't touch her, don't/tended for Miss Chadwick in eentny ee ee crceitouch her." 1954 and earned about $100,000| Marilyn eae ene. are cut It was Ryder doing the|during her swimming career,| swim across Lake Ontario but) ing. At his suggestion,|Wwill be a broadcast commenta-| perhaps Marilyn wouldn't have) the wife of|tor this time. ' |Miss Cooke, now oe Ha her, ad 1 not teen long - distance swimmer Cliff} Toronto radio station CKEY "{ 'didn't grow up with any | Lumsden, had jumped in to ' 14 ver lencourage her but he didn't pe och f paar cane want the other girl to disqual- wirnvnine that los Marilyn by touching her, ee weree * form alitenines sepecially so close to the goal. or two downtown blocks Wednes-| " think it really became a} Joan didn't touch her and on-| qay to the Toronto Maple Leafs| serious idea when I heard that ward Marilyn went, followed tq 'build an $8,000,000 coliseum.| the Canadian National Exhibi-jinto shore by one of the oddest/The offer, made to Stafford| tion was offering Miss Chad-|atmadas ever seen in Toronto--| Smythe. president of the Na-| wick a prize to swim across the;trim yachts, motorboats, offi-|tional Hockey League club, was} lake and not inviting anybody |cial launches, sailboats an ugly) a counter move to Smythe's of-| else to compete for it. harbor tugboat and even kayaks fer to build the sports arena if "phis just didn't seem right|and rowboats. |he received permament posses-| to me. 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