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Nez to St Margaret’s Bay, in
‘13 hours, 55 minutes’, and
the third British man to cross
the Channel after his heroes
Webb and Burgess. And, of
course, he had beaten the
American Gertrude Ederle,
knocking around forty
minutes off her time.
Naturally the British press
was ecstatic and he was
photographed leaving the
News of the World offices
both ‘chaired’ and cheered.