New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-09-10
10th SUCCEEDS IN
CROSSING Channel
BoStonian Gets Nothing But Salts
faction From Feat

Dover, Eng, Sept. 10.-Charle,
10th of Boston. Mass. yesterda,
swan the English channel. Starting
Saturday night from the French side
the American landed near St. Mar
garets Bay. He had been in the
water 16 hours and 40 minutes.
10th will not receive the 1000
pounds offered by the Daily Sketch
for the man making the swim, this
offer having expired Sept. Z. He said
he made the attempt lust to prove
to the folks back home that / could
do it,"
Charles Burgess. the English swim
mer who was the first man after
Capt. Matthew Webb to swim the
channel, accompanied 10th in his
successful effort.
When 10th turned up in Dover
yesterday in time for lunch it was the
first real meal he had had since din
ing in France Saturday night He
made the greater part of his swim
during the night, and was the third
American to conquer the channel this
summer. The other two men were
Henry Sullivan OF Lowell, Mass, and
Enrique Tirabocehi, an Argentine.
Is Hard Trip.
This method of travel between
France and England will never be a
popular one, according to 10th, who
declared when he landed on the
beach near here, that it wasn't an en-
joyable way to spend the weekend
He added that he was feeling pretty
well tired out.
When Sullivan swan the channel
only last month, and when Tirabocchi
repeated the performance the follow
ing week, there was a man on the
beach waiting to hand them check
for 1000 pounds. 10th, however,
will not get anything out of it but
glory, unless some unexpected bene-
factor comes forward.
1t was 656 o'clock Saturday eve
ming when 10th plunged into the
channel at Cape Gris-Nez France,
and 1t was about 1850 o'clock yes
terday morning when he reached the
shore of England. He took only
few minutes more than required by
Tirabocchi in his record making squirt
across the choppy sea. Like Tira-
bocchi 10th was lucky. He touched
the bottom at the extreme edge of the
little point of land separating Cape
Margaret's Bay from Kings Down.
Had he missed this point by even a
few yards he would have had to keep
going with his steady trudgeon stroke
several miles farther along the coast
to find spot to land. AS it was he
had only strip of land a yard wide
to stand on. Back of him was water
Burgess Pilot.
Burgess acted as Toth's pilot and
adviser throughout the swim, and
Joined the American in the water
during the last two miles. To the
advice OF the English veteran 10th
attributes no small part of his sue
cess
Sullivan was one of the first per-
sons to greet his compatriot after
10th had recovered his breath in the
engine room of the tug which had
him across the channel.
and Sullivan took 10th in
hand on board the tug and scraped
several pounds of lard off his body
which had been rubbed on him before
he started, to ward off cold.
On landing Burgess and Sullivan
ook 10th to place where he could
yet bath and something to eat. He
aid he was rather badly in need Of
10Th. When his appetite had been
the Bostonian strolled out on
he street and walked home. He was
unheralded and I'M
Jung at first, but shortly afterward
he was recognized by persons who
.hcered him. This attracted scores
If men, women and children from the
,yways, highways and their homes. .
ind in a few minutes 10th was being
made as much a hero as any of the |
,ther men who have conquered the /
hannel this year.