Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1901 — Little Girl Swims Far. [ARTICLE]

Little Girl Swims Far.

Elame Golding, an 11-year-old girl, performed the remarkable' feat of swimming across the narrows, near New York city, in a race from Fort Wadsworth to Fort Hamilton. She is a sister of Ethel Golding, the champion wpman swimmer of the country. In all she swam three and one-eighth miles, having been carried by the tide a mile and three-quarters, out of her course and being compelled to face both wind and tide in her effort to make her landing. Elaine finished a« strongly as she started