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
Gertrude Ederle of Fame in 2003. She is mentioned in Episode 11 of the first season of "Barney Miller" by the Bird Man character Roland Gusik, as being one who lived her dreams, and did not allow them to be stopped. An annual swim from New York City's Battery Park to Sandy Hook, New Jersey is called the Ederle Swim in memory of Gertrude Ederle, and follows the course she swam. The Gertrude Ederle Recreation Center is located in Manhattan. A BBC Radio 4 play, "The Great Swim", by Anita Sullivan, based on the 2008 book of the same name by Gavin