Charlotte "Lottie" Schoemmell
Charlotte "Lottie" Schoemmell (Lottie Moore Schoemmell) was an American open water swimmer who was inducted as an Honor Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in the Class of 1968.
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Open Water Swimming Career
- In 1926, Schoemmell swam 251 km (156 miles) down the Hudson River in New York, USA in 57 hours 11 minutes over an 11-day period, eating lumps of sugar soaked in whiskey while in the water.
- She swam around Manhattan Island in New York in 14 hours 21 minutes in 1926.
- She nearly finished the Wrigley Ocean Marathon Swim from Isthmus Cove on Catalina Island to San Pedro on the Southern California mainland on 15 January 1927, but did not finish.
- She participated in the 40.9 km Lake George Swimming Marathon held on 12 July 1927 in Lake George, New York.
Time Magazine 1 November 1926
Clad in a bathing cap and a coat of black axle grease and nothing else, Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmell, a mother, climbed out of New York Harbor into a sheet held by her sister, while whistles screeched and 200 rain-soaked persons hailed her with cheers. She had swum from Albany to the Battery (160 miles) in 57 hr. 11 min., swimming time, beating by 6 hr. 24 min. the record made in 1921 by Mrs. Corson.* She lost 4 pounds, used 72 pounds of fat, ate lumps of sugar soaked in whiskey.
International Professional Swimmers Association
Lottie Schoemmell was a member of the International Professional Swimmers Association founded in 1927 in New York City.
International Professional Swimmers Association
The International Professional Swimmers Association was an international association organized on 21 September 1927 at the Hotel McAlpin in Manhattan, New York with its headquarters in New York City. The Association planned to issue a monthly publication to authenticate and keep records of a professional swimming events and to foster swimming throughout the world as an international sport.
Its officers included:
- William Wrigley, Jr., Honorary President
- Captain George H. Maines, Active President
- William Burgess of Dover, England, Vice President
- Elwood Hughes of Toronto, Canada, Vice President
- C. Compton of Long Beach. California, Vice President
- Lou Timson of Boston, Massachusetts, Secretary and Treasurer
Its Board of Governors consisted of:
- Edward Keating of New York
- William Erickson of New York
- Byron Summers of San Francisco
- Lottie Schoemmell of Lake George, New York
- Eva Morrison of Boston, Massachusetts
- Ernest Vierkoetter of Berlin, Germany
- Paul Chotteau of Paris, France
- William Sadlo Jr. of New York
- Ethel Hertle of New York
- Mobile Bill Jackson of Mobile, Alabama
- Leo Purcell of San Francisco, California
- May Elwell of Revere, Massachusetts
- Sam Swartz of Glens Falls, New York
- Captain T. W. Sheffield of Balboa, California
- Johnny Walker of Toronto, Canada
- Olaf Farstadt of Norway
- Ernst M. Smith of San Francisco, California
- Charles Toth of Boston, Massachusetts
- Henry Sullivan of Lowell, Massachusetts
- James Burns of New York
- Edith Hedin of Toronto, Canada
- Harold "Stubby" Kruger of Hawaii
- Georges Michel of Paris, France
- Norman Ross of Chicago, Illinois
- Clarence Ross of New York
- George Young of Toronto, Canada, Associate Member for Life
- Gertrude Ederle, Associate Member for Life
- Millie Gade Corson, Associate Member for Life
External links
- Lottie Profile
- The Legend of Charles Zibelman
- Swimming Across Lake George, The Most Beautiful Lake In The World
- Racing For Half A Million Dollars Across The Catalina Channel
- Swimmers on the shore before the start of the Wrigley Ocean Marathon at Isthmus Cove, Santa Catalina Island, 1927
- Wrigley Ocean Marathon 12 January 1927 The Catalina Island
- Hundreds Start Channel Swim, Los Angeles Times
- International Professional Swimming Association Drew Stars
- International Professional Swimmers' Association Organized
- Catalina Channel Swimming Federation
- NYC Swim website
- International Marathon Swimming Hall Of Fame Origins
- World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation History
- International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame
- Open Water Swimming
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- WPMSF Led To IMSHOF
- World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation
- Marathon Swimming
- Daily News of Open Water Swimming
- Lottie Schoemmell
