SWIMMING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 96, 24 April 1931, Page 17

SWIMMING.

P. H. McGRATH'S PERFORMANCES. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, this day. The great promise revealed by P. H. McGrath, the brilliant young Soutlfiunder, in winning the New Zealand 100 v ards and 220 yards intermediate boys' swimming championships at Ashburton, is being fully maintained in the concluding stages of the season, and it is confidently < ypeeted in Invercargill that he will break 00s for 100 next season. Southland water is not reputed to be fast, but at the Southland Boys' High School carnival recently, McGrath, who won the championship, curried off the 100 yards in 02 1-os, without being exerted, and this was one second betier than his winning time at Ashburton. He annexed the .">0 yards in «iotxl style in 28s, | and finished up by winning the vhanipionship dive, the open dive, and the ribbon dive. The Southland championships last week were a huge success, nearly 700 people being present. McGrath was again the star and, had he been extended, would have improved liis times both over 100 yards and 220 yards. He won the hundred convincingly in 62 4-ss, and the 220 yards by twenty yards in 2.47 2-5. He ended i.p on this occasion by swimming second from scratch in the 50 yards backstroke handicap, and on this style of swimming lie also shows much promise. Southland promises to have a very strong team in quest of the War Memorial Shield, at present held by Otago, next season. A FAMILY AFFAIR. OTAGO P.S. CHAMPIONSHIPS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, this day. The outstanding feature of the Otago primary schools' swimming championships last week was the fact that many well known swimming families were represented, and the success of the winning school was due in no small measure to the efforts of a couple of families. Sid. Jarvis, a brother of the New Zealand junior boys' 100 yards champion, is only eleven years of ajre and already has swum at four New Zealand championship meetings. He won the 33 1-3 yards championship under 13 in 21s without being pushed, and the 25 yards, under 12, in which he put up the record time of 15 l-ss. His sister, R. Jarvis, won the 25 yards girls' under 12, while the Buckland family secured two seconds and a first between two of them. These four swimmers were the strength of the winning school's relay teams. The winner of the boys' diving championship, In which a surprisingly high standard was revealed, was E. Eckhold, a brother of the well known Otago intermediate diver, and a son of A. E. Eckhold, leading Rugby referee and ex-New Zealand representative footballer. E. Lewis, a brother of the ex-New Zealand 220 yards breaststroke champion, was second in the breaststroke championship.