New Britain herald., 1926-08-24
SIX SWIMMERS IN
 CHANNEL FAILURES
Two of These Defeated in Day
 Are American Girls

Dover, Eng, Aug. 24 0p = The turbulent English channel which has turned back five would be conquerors within the past 24 hours, today turned back another swimmer.
 Jane Darwin, an English girl. starting from Dover on her first cross-channel attempt, was forced to quit because of rough water shortly after she had cleared the harhor this morning.
 Because of continuing unfavor- able conditions it is considered doubtful here if there will be much more channel activity this year.
 Cape Gris-Nez, Aug. 24 P - Gertrude Ederle apparently is to be the only swimmer, at least the only woman. who will have to her credit the feat of swimming the English channel this year. The sea- son is late and the sharps who know the vagaries of the treach- erous old stretch of water lying between the shores of France and England say that henceforward it is likely to go daily into such tan- trums that it will be impossible to negotiate it.
 Five Failed Yesterday
 Five aspirants - two of them
 rlu rough and elusive waterway dur ing yesterday and last night and all failed. The cold out in the rushing tides and among the bil- lowing waves stopped the two American girls and a monster dog fish collided with one of the three male swimmers and bruised him so badly that he was unable to go on.
 Clare Belle Barrett of New Rochelle, N. Y, and Lillian Can non of Baltimore essayed to emu late Miss Ederle's feat, but both had to give up. They were ambi- tious not alone to cross the chan nel but to cut down ''Trudie's'' record time of IA hours, 91 min- utes. Miss Barrett suffered from seasickness, while Miss Cannon had an attack of cramps in the stomach and was taken out of the water.
 The three men natators were the German, Otto Kemmerich, who came into collision with the dog fsh; another German named Vier- koeteen, and a Frenchman named Ledriant
 All Start From France
 All the swimmers started from Gris-Nsa for the English shore except Miss Barrett, who struck out from Dover to cross to the French side. Mrs. Bennington Car son, who as Amelia Gade. swan from Albany to New York city il 1921 and who failed to swmi thu channel in 1923, intended to hav' another try at it yesterday. But il crossing from Dover to Gris-Nei in a saetorboat to make her star 1llC AtGldNu Ghhb AAiC NatNi " e't too rough and postponed her swim
 When Miss Cannon took the wa. ter at $40 o'clock yesterday evening it was with a strong heart and higf hopes that she would master tht channel. Everything pointed to sue cess The weather was perfect anC theBaltimore girls was fit for thu task. She dashed off at a smar pace, intent on cracking Miss Eder les record.
 All went merily for the first two hours. Then the wind from a gentle zephyr turned into a stiff north eastern breeze and kicked up thu famous channel chops. This slowed down the American girl, but stil she continued to advance.
 Stricken With Cramps
 Three hours after she had mad, her start she was seen to be in diff faculties and complained of cramps in the stomach. Bravely she strug sled on, but at last the pain be came so intense that she was oblig ed to quit when about four and { half miles out from Gris-Nez and 1T what the coaches on the accom-. panying tug declared was an excel lent position. Miss Barrett was 1T the water three hours and fort. minutes and about five miles of Dover when she succumber to th' mal-de-mer.