Mr James Mearns, of the Aberdeen Amateur Swimming Club, has arrived at Dover in readiness for another attempt swim across the English Channel. He accompanied by Mr Cruickshanks, the president of the Aberdeen Amateur Swimming Club, who has the arrangements for the swim in hand. Mr Peter Mearns, brother the swimmer, is also among the party this year, and has taken his bagpipes with him, so that there will some music while swim in progress. Mearns says the bagpipes will relieve the monotony of the swim, and be cheerful. It has been decided that Mearns shall start his attempt from the same spot as last year—namely, from the foreshore under the celebrated Shakespeare Cliff to the westward of Dover. Mearns is not the only swimmer at Dover awaiting favourable weather. The others include Woolff, Glasgow; Heaton, Liverpool; Burgess, a Yorkshire man; Holbein and Stearn, Manchester.
Dundee Evening Telegraph, Dundee, Scotland, September 7, 1909