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GBEAT SWIMMING BACE POK £50. ♦-The long.talkedof match between H. Coulter and D m Pamplin has been a warn over the two miles of tideway i between the Doves at Hammersmith to Patney Aqae-1 daot on an ebb tide. There was a little less current i than usual, o wing to the wind, and the attendance was • limited. Swimmers, as a rule, are the class that rise with the lark and go to bed with the Bun. Pamplin had the Surrey station, with the torn of the corner at first, and in a few strokes he had a lead, which he made into 1 a length at the bridge. Here some barges were right in the course, and Coulter, having to alter his direction, fell three lengths astern in a short time, bat Pamplin, getting into the eddy from the bridge, came back to him, and at the Soap Works both men were dead level. Pamplin in the first minute was doing 3d long strokes per minute, Coulter 39, both men alternately doing the breast and side stroke. The race was now a neck and neck affair for 300 yards, when Pamplin seemed to go ahead with ease, but at the Glass Wharf Coulter came up, passed him, and took his water. More than half the course had been swum, and the pace of stroke had fallen to Pamplin 32, Coulter 34 per minute, the latter principally on his breast. At the Point, Pamplin, by a beautiful exhibition of side swimming, came up level again and got his own side, and np to the boat-houses it was again a ding-dong race, Coulter doing 30 and Pampbn 28 strokes. The steering of both men, which had hitherto been good, was now wild, and Coulter, slowly forging ahead, took Pamplin’s water and kept it to the finish, winning by five lengths, after another fine spurt from Pamplin, who considerably reduced the gap in the last 100 yards. Both men were greatly exhausted ; I at the finish, as muoh from cold water and wind as from the exertion of the struggle. Pamplin has beaten Coulter over a 1,000 yards' ooorse, and his distance seems to be about that. Coulter, it may be remembered, was beaten by White in their swim to Greenwich some {ime -five miles. The time of this race on a two and a naif hours' ebb was 33 minutes. !
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London Magnet
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Aug 29, 1870
Page 6
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Sophie P.
GB 29 Jan 2017
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