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CASE OF LOSER GETTING THE LAURELS Kan Finishing Last in Swimming Race in Franc Receives Greater Welcome than the Winner WinnerSport Sport and war were strangely mingled in the recent annual swimming race in the RiVer Seine the big sport event of the year in Paris The hero of tlie race down the Seine through Paris a distance of about seven and onethird miles was not the winner but the man who finished last o tnVmnte competitors He was Charles Nungesser the cham ¬ pion aviator ho though still hampered by wounds not yet completely healed his left leg in fact became useless early in tlie race persevered to the end and finished in three hours and fortythree min ¬ utes receiving a greater welcome from the thou ¬ sands lining the banks than even the winner winnerTlie Tlie French are not usually regarded as an ath ¬ letic nation but this race organized every year attracted thirtyone entries of whom twentyeight started and twentytwo thirteen men and nine women finished without counting the veteran George Paulus age 58 the winner of this event in 1905 who gave an exhibition swim coining in sixth The winner was George Michel a gunner in the heavy artillery whose time was three hours and three minutes The first woman to arrive Suzanne Wurtz came in sixth in three hours anrt1 nineteen minutes followed by Juliette Gnrdcllc in three j hours and twentyone minutes Women took the twelfth fifteenth eighteenth twentieth find twenty first places the last but one being a little girl Henriette Gardelie only 13 years old who with a handicap of half an hour finished iri four hours and fortythree minutes
