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"Yq THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thuredoy, Janvery 17, 1963 SPUNKY SWIMMER--Clau- dia McPherson, a 17-year-old Winnipeg marathon swimmer, gets a few pointers from her coach, YMCA _ instructor George Alliston. He is confi- dent she will become the youngest person ever to swim ENGLISH CHANNEL McCARTAN WAS STAR By PAUL RIMSTEAD It was 1960 at Squaw Valley, Calif, site of the Olympic hockey tournament, and a rela- tively unknown goaltender named Jack McCartan had !e4 the United States to its first world amateur championship. The Americans, with McCar- tan flashing his lightning-quick catching hand behind them, skated to wins over Canada, Russia, Czechoslovakia and others. Not many people noticed a slight youngster from Duluth Minn., who was playi His name was Tommy Williams and his boyish face and flowing blonde hair would have looked more at home on a tennis court. McCartan was the hero, New York Rangers of the National Hockey League immediately capitalized on his popularity by calling him up for a profes- sional tryout, He has turned into a fair goaltender. He's stiil knocking around the minors to have his rough edges hewn-- but there may be a day when & |he becomes an NHL regular, What happened to young ' Tommy Williams? the English Channel when she makes her second bid to fin- ish the 21-mile marathon this summer, --(CP Photo) Winnipeg Schoolgirl Will Try It Again By KEN CLARK WINNIPEG (CP) -- A fair- haired schoolgirl under a con- fident coach is training hard here for a. second bid to be- come the youngest person to swim the English Channel. Claudia McPherson, who will be 17 on March 28, says "I'm sure I'll make it this time." In her first try last Aug. 13 she was pulled from the water after covering 15 of the 21 miles. Wind and tide turned against her after she had been in the water 914 hours in the attempt to swim from France to Eng- and. Coach George Alliston, 25, a YMCA swimming instructor, gays he has examined films of Claudia's try and "I'm con. vinced she can do it." The new attempt will be made this summer when Claudia will still be younger than Margaret) White of Britain who swam the channel in 1961 when she was 17 years, eight months, young- est person ever to do it. Alliston took over as Claudia's coach last fall on her return to . Her former coach, George Brown, 20, quit prior to Claudia's Channel try, com- plaining of "interference." STUDIES FILMS Alliston has Claudia on a stiff training routine. The Grade 10 student swims a minimum of eight hours a week, including a thrice-weekly morning session starting at 6:30 a.m. Alliston takes films during practice sessions and runs them in slow motion to detect flaws in technique. By May, Claudia's pool time will be almost doubled to 15 hours as the training tempo steps up. Her coach says she has never really been out of condi- tion since her first try at the Channel. '"We started training in Oc- tober with the idea of keeping her in peak condition, or close to it, and we have achieved this." He says Claudia may lack speed but she makes up for it with endurance and power, prime requisites for a marathon swimmer. Claudia's mother, Mrs. F. C. McPherson, is looking mean- while for a sponsor to pick up the $5,000 tab for the swim. Last year's attempt was fi- nanced by $4,700 in donations raised by a businessmen's com. mittee in neighboring St. James where the McPhersons live. MOTHER WORKS "But we don't want to im- pose on the public again," says Mrs. McPherson who goes out to work to help contribute to her daughter's swimming ca- reer. Claudia gained prominence with a 1961 swim 17 miles across Lake Winnipeg. It was made at the urging of her first coach who spotted her marathon ability at a community pool. Claudia says she feels "'ter. rific" under the rigorous train- ing program but emphasizes "you really have to love swim- ming to do it." 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He planned to try for a college hockey scholarship if he failed and he wouldn't be eligible for college hockey i¢ he accepted money. easily and was a star in his first year. Mind you, he wasn't a beefy He made Kingston Frontenacs/ But Fate Turned Finger Towards Tommy Williams rong oy Me Bit Me learn to keep his head Gauthier, Canadiens, tawa Canadiens in those days, He was one of Williams' best instructors, GAINED WEIGHT Gauthier hit Williams so hard one afternoon at Hull that Bru: ins couldn't have blamed him if he had headed back to Duluth. But he bounced back and was even more effective last sea- son; so effective, in fact, that Bruins called him up to the It wasn't easy to adjust. He of the league. Even Bruins weren't particu- larly high on Williams in their Plans for this year, But he had one thing in his favor--he was popular in Boston; an bonest- to-goodness native of the U.S. right there in a Bruins 'uniform. Who knows whether Williams would have been kept this year if it hadn't been for the fact the hapless Bruins had to start thinking of ways to keep fan interest? Despite a great training camp, it was the same story. He was a fiash in practice, a bust in games, But suddenly Tommy Williams came of age. Nobody is eure what made the difference but there Is a dif- ference, indeed, And it hasn't hurt his popularity in Boston. His boosters now aren't ail patriotic fans seats. He has some solid fans in the Bruins front office, too REMEMBER WHEN ...? By THE CANADIAN PRESS The Canadian Hockey As- sociation and the National Hockey Association 'war' ended 53 years ago today when the two professional circuits merged under the latter title. Formed late in 1909 the two groups had drafted clashing schedules and the death of one was clearly forecast. 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