SWIMMING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 206, 13 June 1936, Page 2

SWIMMING.

LOSS TO AUSTRALIA. KENDALL LEAVES FOR AMERICA. W. Kendall, in the opinion of many critics, the finest sprint swimmer Australia has possessed for a long while, if not the best of them all, has left for America, aecompanying his mother and father. hendall will be in Ger many during, the period of the Olympic Games, and it is a matter of much regret that he was not endorsed as a member of Australia’s team, for his representation at Berlin would not have cost the Olvmpic organisers in the Commonwealth any additional sumh, writes 'W. F. Corbett, The point of _view is taken amongst swimming enthusiasts, and the friends of Kendall, that as the police crew was approved, with their cost of travellling being defrayed bv an amount outside the Olympio fund, so surely should Kendall have been endorsed and allowed to travel at the expense of his father.

The secretary of the New South Wales Amateur Swimming Association (Mr [Dudley Hellmrich) is convinced that when he regains his full health and strength and encounters the best sprinters of Europe, Kendall will! break the minute for 100 metres, possibly breaking even 59sec. I have heard such good judges as Albert Barry and Harry Hay express similar views. Kendall will not return to Australia, but will attend an American University to: graduate in mining geology.