4 SEPTEMBER 1926, Page 3

On Monday Herr Wierkotter swam the Channel in nearly two

hours less than Miss Ederle's " record " time. Three days before Herr Wierkotter's performance, Mrs. Corson, an American, had also swum across. One fancies that experience has shown better ways than before of using the tides. Better organization is no doubt also a great help, but one wonders what kind of commercialization of swimming lies cunningly behind all these attacks on the now hopelessly defeated Channel. Another event in sport worth mentioning is that after twenty-two years the county championship in cricket has returned to Lancashire. The Yorkshire eleven cannot equal the percentage of Lancashire even if they win their remaining match, but they have certainly had bad luck, as they are an unbeaten side.