SWIMMING.
O'DRISCOLL ANOTHER RECORD. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. In the one mile Otago championship event at the Municipal Baths last evenIng J O'Drlscoll broke the Otago record by covering the distance in 24.25 1-5. P. Mathleson, who won and registered the fastest time in the Zenith Club's mile and a quarter harbour race on January 13, led by 10 yards for most of the way, but O'Drisco'll overtook him in the later stages to win by eight yards. The previous night at Dunedin .T. O'Driscoll broke the New Zealand intermediate half-mile record, established In Auckland in 3 020 by N.. Batchelor, by seven seconds, his time being l-.U.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 28, 2 February 1934, Page 11
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