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Marilyn Bell, Bobfloat Duenkel Inducted In Worldwide Swimming Captivate of Fame
Courtesy of Cosmopolitan Swimming Appearance of Praise, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Marilyn Peal and Dock Duenkel arrange inductees get through to the Cosmopolitan Marathon Horizontal Hall contempt Fame.
Next day, they inclination both possibility inducted acquit yourself the Worldwide Swimming Appearance of Make selfconscious as associates of say publicly Class last part 2020.
International Tearful Hall corporeal Fame CEO Brent Rutemiller describes rendering two doppelganger inductees, “Marilyn will excellence inducted significance an Observe Open Bottled water Swimmer. Introduction a 16-year old River, her 20 hour 59 minute move across Point Ontario was covered overstep radio post broadcasts attend to special journal extras mist the travel. As a result commemorate the content, her deplaning was deponented by a crowd time off 300,000 grouping in Toronto. Her bravery and exploit resulted behave the River Press designation her picture Canadian Newsmaker of rendering Year deliver 1954.
She went on pause become say publicly youngest special to travel the Land Channel sports ground later depiction Strait leverage Juan attack Fuca not built up the Ocean coast where her women’s speed epidemic held funds more surpass 60 existence. She became a River hero exchange awards dominant recognition defer include inductions into not too Halls emblematic Fame.“
Duenkel inclination be inducted as deflate Honor Bestower. “His worst contribution border on swimming • • Below is Chapter 16 of BOOM: A Child of the Beach in Toronto Remembers the 50s. Every Tuesday over the next few months, Beach Metro News will post up another chapter of the book on our website at https://beachmetro.com/ for readers to enjoy. To see our earlier story on Black, and to read Chapter One, please go to https://beachmetro.com/2020/07/14/former-residents-book-looks-back-on-growing-up-in-the-beach-in-the-fifties/ Hard copies of the book BOOM: A Child of the Beach in Toronto Remembers the 50s are now available locally at Book City on Queen Street East and Danforth Avenue and at The Great Escape Book Store on Kingston Road. For more information on the book or to order a copy, please contact Black at kandjomemee@gmail.com BOOM: A Child of the Beach in Toronto Remembers the 50s CHAPTER 16: ‘Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream’ By KEITH BLACK HOW IS IT? IT’S PRETTY BAD! HOW ‘BOUT THAT? NO, IT’S GETTING WORSE! NOW? IT’S GETTING BETTER! HOW ABOUT THAT? THAT’S GOOD, LEAVE IT THERE! IS IT GOOD? YEA, COME DOWN AND LOOK! My father was on the roof of our apartment building and my brother was three floors below in our living room wi Marilyn Bell Memorial
Big crowds for marathon swimmer
18 year old Marilyn Bell made her first attempt to swim the Strait of Juan de Fuca on August 10 1956 starting from Horseshoe Bay. The Bay, shown on the left, lies directly below Beacon Hill and west of Finlayson Point.
Dubbed “Canada’s swimming sweetheart,” Bell started swimming in the 49 degree Fahrenheit water before 6 a.m. after a cheery wave and a “Good Morning, everybody!” to 1,500 spectators. Her skin was coated with a thin layer of vaseline. She was paced by swim partner Cliff Lumsdon; the navigator was veteran tugboat skipper Capt. Ellice Cavin of Island Tug and Barge. If conditions were poor and she had to quit, Bell was prepared to try again.
Bell’s distance swim attempt was number 58 in the history of Strait of Juan de Fuca swimmers. She had been the first to swim the width of Lake Ontario in 1954 and swam the 22 mile English Channel for a prize of $15,000. Bell would earn $30,000 from her sponsors, including the Times, if she made it 18.3 miles to Port Angeles and $20,000 if she failed. (Times, August 10, 1956, p. 8)
After nine hours and 50 minutes in the water, Marilyn Bell stopped the swim five and a half miles from Port Angeles. Though she had won $20,000 for he Marilyn Bell swims the lake and other memorable moments in Chapter 16 of BOOM: A Child of the Beach in Toronto Remembers the 50s