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journalists to accompany him. He later toured with his own aquatic circus, opened an amusement park in Chicago ...
unusual swims from Westminster as well. In August 1878 a lieutenant in the Hungarian army decided to swim t ...
because Sultan was ‘suffering from nervousness’. The lieutenant had recently patented a saddle with which to cr ...
novel swim when Jules Paul Victor Gautier set off for Greenwich, the first this daring exhibitionist would make ...
man named Harry Scarborough was about to enter a pub in Camden Town when he thought he felt Gautier’s hand i ...
pushed off by the conductor. So then Gautier, in single- minded fury, ran alongside the bus until Scarborough got ...
identity, but the jury found him guilty, although they recommended mercy ‘on account of the provocation which he h ...
‘The daring professor’. Jules Paul Victor Gautier, who swam the Thames with his hands and feet tied. A little over a yea ...
men, all noted champions, in ‘the mile professional championship’ at the Welsh Harp in Hendon where he cam ...
‘for the benefit of Jules Gautier, the champion of France’ and a few years later he was at the Lambeth Baths com ...
‘professor’ to the North London Swimming Club. Then, on 16 September 1888, at the age of thirty-one, Gautier tried ...
within a stone’s throw of Waterloo on the South Western. It was a bloodless victory. Professor Jules Gautier ...
The Victorians, and later the Edwardians, loved public feats of skill and endurance, the more bizarre, dramatic and ...
clothing, was still in its infancy. When Jules Gautier set off from Westminster, extreme endurance events were ...
the feat with him. But all comers were no comers.’ Amid cheers from the crowds on land and in boats, ...
here, and he expressed a wish to go on to Greenwich. As, however, he had beaten the record his friends did not ...
powerful physique, looks capable of any amount of endurance. He has shown us Londoners how to perform a feat no ...
his bound hands around in a semi-circle. It looks clumsy and awkward of course. But it is wonderful the pace ...
done rather a neat thing in natation,’ commented another paper. ‘We don’t admire big feet, as a rule, b ...
where he was said to be ‘the champion of the world for speed’, born at Caen in Normandy but coming to E ...
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