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THE CHINA MAIL,, SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1958.
SENSATIONS OF SPORT No. 4
CAPTAIN WEBB'S
LAST SWIM
T one o'clock in the afternoon of August 24, 1875, a. barrel-chested young man, greased with porpoise fat, -dived off the end of Dover Pier and struck out with powerful breast-strokes in the direction of France, some 21 miles away.
Captain Matthew Webb had begun the first successful assault by a swim- mer on the English Channel a feat which was to take him nearly 22 hours to accomplish and which was not to be repeated for 36
years.
Accompanied by a lugger, don; he appeared at Covent and fortified at intervals by Garters promenade concerts.
swimming.
"la 23 years they say that 80 persons have lost their liver in the rapids."
| beof-ten, cod-liver oil, For the next few years, Webb brandy, strong old ale and gave exhibitions of diving and Explaining bia intentions, That coffee. Webb batfled endurance
Bub Webb at cast showed that he and had
coolly .considered the against seemingly impossible dually, his popularity
strengti began to wane, until
dangers he was going to face odds. He was stung by eventually, fike so many heroes, and had calculated his chancea jelly-fish, carried miles off he was almost forgotten.
of overcoming them. His chief course by the tide, and
problems, he said, were to avoid being dushed against subaquenus abnost, overcome by cold and sleepiness. After
Locks and being drawn Into the twelve
middle of the whirpool.
hours in the water he was so exhausted that the lugger's Crew prepared to hul him aboard.
But Webb would not admil defeat-even though his progress was scarcely per- ceptible in the increasingly rough sea.
By nine o'clock in the morning the valiant awon mer had only one more mile to go. He took over an hour and a half to cover the dis tance, alaggered on to the bench al Calais. and collapsed.
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At that time it was estimated he that 00 million tons of water the swept over the precipice every
The do libur
plunges cataract sensa down
with unimaginable velo-
Webb su missed the fanic nd won by swimming Channel, that he decided to something even more
tional, something that would city and reappeara about rece capture the imagination of all quarters of a mile lower down in eddies. which dash the world and regain his por boiling
against the rocks on either bank or as a pabile hero..
and are hurled back in shoots
Ta 1883, the conqueror of the which, converging, produce a Channel announced that he whirlpool about a quarter of a would now attempt the most mile long. delt swim of all time. En would endeavour to swim
apids
whirlpool below " Niagara Falls.
the
All his life, Matthew Wobb had been creating sensations by
But between the base of the
Coptola Webb fifted his hands dramatically and was then drawn under the water, never to be seen alive again.
Webb faced the
Reaching it, he sank suddenly. and a cry of despair went up- from the speciators. He emerg- cil again, but was swept an into the neck of the whirlpool.
his set of supreine courage. calaract and the rapids lies a M'Cloy asked
that his passenger felt, one of stretch of water as calm as a how much money he had left greatest danger. Born in Shropshire, learned to swin at the age of can ply without danger.
he pool, over which a ferry boat from his profitable conquest of family of twelve children,
the Channel. Webb seven. He was only ten when he
replied dived into the River Severn do
It was
Webb's plan to dive that he had about 15,000 dollars this save one of his seven brothers to
"pool", to float from druwning.
into the rapids, and then, by dint of shour muscolar strengii, to swim clear of rocks and whirlpool until he had reached landing point severni 'miles downstreami,
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There were no characteristle cymptoms of drowning, and the jury were unable to determine the immediate cause of death.
Why did Webb, a married man, make this suicide attempt? It is a popular bellef that Jo did it lo vin £2,000 promised Rising on the crest of thi to him by railway companies, highest wave, Webb, with his running excursions to Niagar face towards the Canadian "Then," said M'Cloy, let me shere, lifted his houds drama- row you ashore to spend. the itally and was then precipita- rest of your money before you ted into a yawning gulf, try this swim."
Matthew Webb bad achieved what the world lud thought to be impossible. He had swum about 38 miles in 21 hours 45 minutes to be.
"The captain estimated that boy-sailor, he traped come the first nian to criss into the River Mery to save would take him free or four the Channel entirely under another life, mud, in 1073, while hours to get out the circle of
For one moment his hend n- Webb loughed, but his own power. And he had serving on the Channel steam- the whirlpool, even if he kept,
said peared above the angry waters, the but he was matlonjess and ap- done it without such modern ship. Russia, he swan for nearly as planned, on the edge of its nothing. He stood up in
the aids as goggles, weather. half an hour in a bid to rescue widest circumference. Walle in bont and stripped down to the parently at the mercy of
would red silk trunks a seaman blown into the sea by the rapids, he said, he
in which he furious eddies. Then he was forecnating, and trim motor- an Atlantle gale. His gallantry dive for as long as possible hed conquered the Channel agah: drawn under bonts.
won him the Arst Stanhope gold whenever he found the torrent eight years before. A man of He was never seen alive again, medal awarded by the Royal 100 powerful.
such stubborn courage could not Humane Society.
dream of tuming back at this late stage.
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But, on the day of his last swim. Webb said he was not coing to make any money out of the feat. It stems that the rail- way companies would not come to terms as they doubted until the very last moment that Webb was really serious.
So the brave Captain Webb died fur no purpose. Even if he hud succeeded; it would havo demonstrated nothing, except that he had been remarkably
Five days later, his body was found at Lewiston, seven miles below the Falls. There was lucky. cut on his head and a post- mortem revealed that the skull was fractured.
The 27-year-old English sea- captain became famous. He was Webb's great feats
"The current, they say, is 39 feted in England and France;
were m.p.h. and the river is 95ft deep. publle subscriptions were raised achieved by his phenomenal I am only afraid of two awful At two minutes past four, the an hir behalf; he was entertain- swimming powers. But the ledges of pointed rocks which fomous swimmer dived into tho was a different jut out from the shores Into the water and awam leisurely down- ed by the Lord Mayor of Lon- Niagorn assault
Everyone - matter.
fairly stresin, with lund whirlpool. The water
hisses as it boils speelal knowledge of the Falls bricks and
As he approached the rapids,
In the words of The Times: "It warned him that his plan could over them.
the rushing only be accomplished by the
waters began to
is even to be feared that if he carry him along at a fearful
had succeeded, others would greatest luck, not by merc
pace, At one moment he was
But medical evidence indica- have been tempted to emulate strength, endurance and skill,
lifted high on the crest of a however well combined.
ted that this had been sustained his exploit so that a fresh tale of wave; út the next disap- after death. A doctor testiled wasted lives would have been
He that he thought the peared into a deep trough.
enormous added to the martyrology of Webb thought otherwise. In an interview with the. New York
along like a cork at force of water to avoid the bobbed
bad paralysed athleticism."
and made nerve centres Herald, he said: "I think I am sides ond yet. I dare not go into such speed that he covered one the
the and a quarter miles in five breathing impossible. enough ord skilled the inkddle, for there Bes strong
ruinutes. enough to get through alone." "ortex, and that means death."
Once he was drawn under by the current and rose Hundreds of people lined the 150 yards from the spot where "People at Niagara Falls tell me that I will be simply com- banks of the river on the op- he sink. mitting suicide. You ought to pointed day. July 24, 1083. hear the blood-curdling stories Their chatter was drowned by that were related for my benefit. The roar of falling water which, A year or two ago, a boy who for miles around, could be Wha paddling around In the heard like a conjinuous rumble shore water was drawn into the thunder.
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rapids and had his head cut off.
A quarter of a mile from the there is a sudden
A girl fell into the river Inst At precisely four o'clock in whirlpool, summer from the suspension the afternoon. Capt. Webb was bend in the river and here thu bridge, and when her dead body rowed out to the centre of the waves strike the American shoro was picked up at the other end. "pool" below Niagam Falls, On with, terrific force, and a verit- of the rapids it was bereft of the way, ferryman John M'Cloy able hell of waters is created. all clothing. but
of made one inn effort to dissuade it was at this point, where the D pair
him from foolhardy enterprise. pull of the whirlpool is rst
stockings."
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once I am not
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Possibly the time is ripe for Ti in poll to discover why so many Ieople don't know why they don't know whatever it is they don't know,
Contratemps
of
the man whose leg' went · To sleep at a dinner. He gently pinched what ha look to be the offending limb, and told the lady next to him what had occurred. "Doubtless," sold she haughtily, "that explaina why you have been pinching my leg so consistently, URGEN
A minded men are more to be it all dependa AN article says that abrent- pitied then laughed at. I have
jalways pilled Coleridge's father,
the legrued, short-sighted, HE other day Bremen rescued
absent-minded vicar of Ottery
a horse which fell into a
St Mary: Оле night of a river. I would like to see the dinner-party he noticed what examination papers which young. appeared to be a portion of his emon have to answer nowa- shirt escaping over the top of day,
hiz breeches. He raised the bottom of his waistcoat and stowed away the fugitive bit of shirl. But more of it obíruded, and ere tong ho was stung away handful after haudful. When the hostess gavo the algnal for the ladies to with- draw it was evident that his neighbour could not move. What he had taken for his ahirt was her voluminous white gown. Red with exertion and embarrassment the worthy main restored the plunder to its owner, who was thus got frea' to Join the other ladies. The story De told in de Quincey's. "Remi-
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2. A cow gets is hond. stuck. manhola in a, busja street. What would you do?
3. Will a hove filled with glue,
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4. A lady's head is 'wedzka,
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