Gertrude Ederle sponsored by a newspaper, the "Baltimore Post", which tried to create a rivalry between her and Ederle in the weeks spent training off the French coast. In addition to Cannon, several other swimmers, including two other American women – Clarabelle Barrett and Amelia Gade Corson – were training in England with the goal of becoming the first woman to swim the Channel. Barrett and Cannon were unsuccessful but three weeks after Ederle's feat, Corson crossed in a time that was 50 minutes slower than Ederle. For her second attempt at the Channel, Ederle had an entourage aboard the tug (the
Carlo Ederle of Turin), after serving at the Cadore front. But he requested, and was granted, permission to return to the front, where he commanded a heavy field battery at the Sei Busi mountain area. In 1916, Ederle was wounded in the shoulder but did not want to go to the hospital. While still convalescing, he returned to the front, despite military doctors' admonitions. In May 1916, he was wounded again. He wrote to his parents that the press reports were greatly exaggerated, and that he had not even gone to the hospital. In November of the same year, Ederle served as