Andrew MeCredie_

Editor
andrew@nsnews.com

TO the three crewmen
aboard the
Panamanian registered

_ freighter, it probably

‘looked like a sick
game of cat and
mouse. .

Last Saturday morning a
flotilla of motor boats putted
across Burrard Bay. Trailing
each craft was a lone swim-
mikr.

Just when a swimmer
looked like they were about
to reach the boat, the pilot
would throttle up and pull
away.

Puzzling stuff for sure,
untess, that is, you were one
of the 71 swimmers taking
part in the 10-kilometre Bay
Challenge, an open water
swisn from West Van’s Sandy
Cove beach to Kitsilano
Beach in Vancouver.

The historic competition
dates back to 1931.

That year swimming and
coaching legend Percy
Norman won the Arthur P.
Dawe trophy, the cup donat-
ed by the Vancouver Sun to
honor the Bay Challenge
winner.

Long distance swimming,
walking and running events
flourished in the Depression
years, a time when few could
afford tickets to arena and
stadium events.

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Endurance events have
enjoyed a renaissance as of
late, though owing more to
society’s “Just Do It,” go-
for-it attirude than to mone-
tary reasons.

According to race director
Hugh Wilson, this year’s race
attracted the highest number
of participants ever.

The Bay Challenge race
was sunk for a few decades,
until a new breed of open
water swimmers revived it in
the 1980s. Likewise, the tro-
phy itself disappeared for
many years.

When the Bay Challenge
started up again last decade
Percy Norman’s widow saw a
news report about the race
and remembered the Arthur
P. Dawe trophy packed away
in her attic.

(Dawe became a house-
hold name in Vancouver at
the beginning of the
Depression. He was a young
man pumping gas for a living
when he won $150,000 in

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SWIMMERS ready
for the start of the
Bay Challenge
open water swim

- race Saturday
morning at Sandy
Cove beach in
West Vancouver.
The 10-kilometre
race crossed
Burrard Bay ana
finished at
Kitsilano Beach. -

SWIMMERS contested the Arthur P. Dawe Cup Saturday morning during the Bay
Challenge. The cup was first won by swimming legend Percy Norman in 1931.

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Wilson.

“She'd been hanging onto
it for years, and just gave it to
us when she heard the race
was on again.”

Final standings of the
i0-km Bay Challenge swim
(overall result, name, time,
hometown):

I: Serge Score, 1:53:06,
Coquitlam. 2: David Sage,
2:06:47, Vancouver. 3: Jennifer
Andrews, 2:09:29, Surrey. 4:
Jocelyn Minter, 2:13:37,
Vancouver. 5. lan Thompson,
2:20:58, Bellingham,WA. 6:
Brent Hobbs, 2 30, North
Vancouver. 7: Debbie Collins,
2:29:09, Debbie Collins, West
Vancouver. 8: David Silverman,
2:30:05, Abbotsford. 9: Hugh
Wilson, 2:30:10 West
Vanceuver. 10: Rod Craig,
2:32:01, West Vancouver.

1k: Mark Andrew, 2:32:26,
West Vancouver, 22: Anthony
Abrahams, 2:32:45. Vancouver.
13: Mike Barrett, 2:33:18,
Courtncy. 14: Imelda Worg,
2:40:09, Vancouver. 15: Peter
Weddigen, 2:45:54, 9 West
Vancouver. 16: Mike Lencoe,
2:46:30, Vancouver. 17: Sa

18: Steve Swatton2:48:57,
Vancouver. 19; Christine
Rosenteld, 2:52:39, Whistler.
20: High Sicrras relay team,
2:38:33, Vancouver. 21: Ginette
St. Arnaud, 2:59:34, Vancouver.
22: Club Stud relay team,
3:00:37, Vancouver. 23: Len
Chaston, 3:06:17, Vancouver.
24: Bottom Feeder relay.team,
3:07:44, Vancouver. .” 25:
Prudence Moore, 3:08:39, West
Vancouver. 26:
Montgomery, 3: 2, West
Vancouver. 27 Lorraine
Dowville, 3:18:39; Coquitlam:
28: Alison Woods, 3:24:42,
Vancouver. 29: Elisa Novais,
3:29:43, Vancouver, Q
30: Zinc or Swim relay team,
3:31:02, Vancouver, 32: Gavin-
Kretamer,

Victoria. 36: Organized Kaus
relay team, 3:59:30, Vancouver.
37: Six Swans-A- -Swimming rclay
team, 4:06:20, Vancouver, 38:
S&M_ relay team, 4:22:03,
Vancouver.

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