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Card #51 - Founder: Gertrude Ederle
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Stolen Archive file 51: An archived newspaper article about Gertrude Ederle's swim across the English Channel

(newspaper article. dated Saturday, August 28, 1926. TWO CENTS)
(photo of Gertrude Ederle, onlookers, and a dog)
(One man is circled, with the text "Lucian! He's staring right at it!")
(area by Gertrude's foot is circled, with the text "What is this package?")

Ederle Crosses Channel!!
By Richard Dworkis

NEW YORK, Aug. 27 -- Throngs of New Yorkers greeted the famed Gertrude Ederle yesterday as she arrived back to her Manhattan home after not only conquering the English Channel - the first woman to do so - but also breaking the previous men's record by a goodly margin.

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Broadway was lined with more than two million cheering fans -- the largest greeting ever for any single athlete, head of state, or movie star. As Miss Ederle's motorcade drove up the Great White Way, she was showered with ticker tape from windows above and flowers from planes flying overhead.

Miss Ederle, an Olympic champion, swam across the English Channel on August 6, breaking the most important barrier facing women athletes by proving women are just as athletic as men. Her swim of about 14 hours was not only a first for women; she also broke the previous record by more than two hours, which was held by Enrique Tiraboschi.

The same day as her historic crossing, the London Daily News was the subject of mockery for an editorial predicting Miss Ederle's failure. At the height of an unexpected storm, as she easily glided past her plaintive trainer begging her to take a rest, the Daily News trumpeted: "Even the most uncompromising champion of the rights and capacities of women must admit that in contests of physical skill, speed and endurance, they must remain forever the weaker sex."

Needless to say, it was the editorial board who hung their heads in shame that day, not Miss Ederle, who only built upon her gold and bronze medals at the 1924 Olympics by proving all the....

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