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Gertrude Ederle, the First Woman to Swim Across the English Channel, Dies at 98
Gertrude Ederle
New York Times:
Gertrude Ederle, who was called "America's best girl" by President Calvin Coolidge in 1926 after she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel, died yesterday at a nursing home in Wyckoff, N.J. She was 98.
Ederle was a symbol of the Roaring 20's, a decade given as much to heroics as to materialism. For a time, her accomplishment put her in the public's affection at the level of Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bill Tilden and Red Grange.
Ederle did not sustain the lofty place in history of another hero of the 1920's, Charles A. Lindbergh, who crossed the Atlantic a year after her historic swim, or of the golden athletes who appeared regularly before the public and kept their fame alive. But her feat, which she did only once and under horrendous conditions, made a memorable contribution in an age when many found it difficult to take female athletes seriously.
They had to take Ederle seriously, because she beat the records of the five men who had previously made the swim from 1875 to 1923.
Thank you Gertrude for being a trailblazer for women in sports.
-Tim
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