SWIMMING

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 61, 11 March 1916, Page 16

SWIMMING

[ I The best swim of the series is, as usual, 1 1 1 to the credit of Fanny Durack (says the s , Sydney "Referee," in referring to the i [ Australian Ladies' Championships). Her I . !220yds world's record is one of those i j feats that we are beginning to expect . I from her annually, and while her pre- < , j vious best over the distance was seconds i j, better than any other girl's best swim, | j > ! the new time now sets a big task. Mina'; . j Wylie's breast-stroke win was another | i ' performance of very marked proficiency. ; 5 At the last council meeting of the , t Victorian Amateur Swimming Associa-'' ! tion an interesting point was raised by y , the Melbourne Club regarding the status 1j of professional billiardists and jockeys - i as members of amateur swimming clubs 1 ; (fays the Sydney "Referee"). The hon. i•■ secretary (Mr. G. Maynard) intimated' - j that he had written to the Australasian j I : Union for a ruling, which body pointed • i out that neither billiards (which can be c ! classed as a pastime) nor horse-racing I : were included in the jurisdiction clause r ; of the constitution of the Australasian II ; Union, and therefore both professional , r i billiardists and jockeys were eligible to s J compete in amateur sport. j ' c j Among those competing in the Canter-' J ; bury Club's Old Timers' Race last Satur-:• n j day week were four champions, viz.: A. ,f ■L. Smith, F. W. Dunnage, F. I. Cowlin i shaw, and H. Avers. Smith and Dunnage i-1 were stroke and two in the first New a j Zealand Champion Fours in 1887-8, Cowliif j shaw stroke of the Pairs in 1895-6, and ;- j Avers bow in the Double Sculls 1899----n 1000, and bow in the Fours in 1900-1. st Other champions present were:—"H. F. t. Xicoll. 1887-8; X. L. Macbeth, IS9I-2; d and J. S. Gutchrie, 1904-5.