AUCKLAND AGAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 45, 22 February 1934, Page 20

AUCKLAND AGAIN.

WINS YALDHURST SHIELD. I.INDSAY OUTSTAYS CRUMP. 11. LEYDON AND M. FARQUHAR ALSO WIN AGAIN. (By Telegraph.—Special to " Star.") CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. The New Zealand national swimming championships were concluded this evening in heavy rain. The weather was very cold. Titles were won this evening by three j Aucklanders. Mona Leydon won the 440 yds ladies' championship, Judith Webster the 220 yds ladies' breaststroke championship, and Wilfrid Hassan the men's diving championship. Hassan's success caused great enthusiasm among the Auckland team, because, although every swimming title has been held in Auckland, lie is the first Aucklander to win the diving for 14 years. Xoel Crump, the Auckland and New Zealand 100 and 220 yards intermediate and senior champion, could not last it out with Dave Lindsay in the final of the quarter-mile, although he had won hie heat in three seconds faster time than the Dominion's greatest distance swimmer. Crump led until the end of the eleventh lap, when he was overtaken by Lindsay. l (, rom then on the North Shore boy could not maintain the pace against Lindsay's long-reaching strokes. Crump could hardly have been expected to wrest the laurels from Lindsay anyway, and, taking all things into consideration, he has put up a remarkable all-round performance at this national meeting. The Yaldhurst Shield, for most points scored by a province at the meeting, was •won by Auckland (for the fifth year in succession), with 65 points. Canterbury was next with 21 points, and Manawatu was third. Detailed results:—• WOMEN'S 440 YARDS. M. Leydon, Auckland 1 N. Ludlow, Auckland .. 2 N. Basstian, Southland 3 Also started: J. Mosse and V, Berry, Canterbury. Won by 11 yards, a similar distance between second and third. Time, 6.2 1-5. MEN'S 440 YARDS. First Heat.—D. P. Lindsay, Manawatu, 1: G. McConville, Canterbury, 2; R. Frankham, Auckland. 3. Time, 5.45 1-5. Second Heat.—N. Crump, Auckland, 1; R. Thomas, Auckland, 2: R. Watkins, Hawke's Bay, 3. Time, 5.42 3-5. Final. Lindsay, Manawatu 1 Crump. Auckland 2 Thomas, Auckland 3 Won easily by four yards, Thomas 10 yards away. Time, 5.25 3-5. WOMEN'S 220 YARDS BREASTSTROKE. J. Webster, Auckland 1 M. Mathieson. Otago 2 R. Collins, Canterbury, started, but did not finish. Won by 16 yards. Time, 3.32 1-5. MEN'S DIVING. W. Hassan, Auckland 1 A. W. Wesney, Southland 2 R. O. Johnson, Otago 3 WOMEN'S 50 YARDS INVITATION RACE. M. Farquhar, Auckland 1 S. Grange, Auckland 2 N. Basstian, Southland 3 INTER-CENTRE, 500 YARDS, FLYING SQUADRON. (Teams of five.) Canterbury A 1 Otago ...: 2 Time, 5.6. WATER POLO CHAMPIONSHIP. ! Canterbury A 4, beat Wellington 0. Canterbury B 3, drew with Otago 3. Canterbury A won the championship. MEN'S 50 YARDS INVITATION SCRATCH RACE. W. Jar vis, Otago 1 W. Whareaitu, South Auckland 2 D. H. Symes, Canterbury 3 ' — ( OTAHUHU POINTS RACES. The Otahuliu Swimming Club is holding ] a number of points races on Saturday 1 afternoon next at Stringer's Point, when ] some interesting racing should be witnessed. . Formed late last year, this club is making steady progress, and has some promising £ young swimmers who have recently joined up. Saturday's races include 25 yard events 1 for nine-year-old boys and girls, 33 yards £ for 12-year-old girls and boys, 50 yards for boys and girls up to 15 years, a-50-yard ] swim for ladies, also the same distance for ( men. Principal interest - will be centred in n half-mile swim from the Tamaki Bridge to Stringer's Point, and a big field is J expected to compete in this. Diving com- 2 petitions for boys and girls, also for men and women, will complete the afternoon's sport.

Entries, which are free, close, for most of the events, with the secretary on Friday evening, and post entries -will be received for the remainder on the ground. , Handicaps will be declared on the ground. This season special attention is being paid to the juvenile swimmers. On Saturday and at other suitable' tides a number of children will be competing for their swimming certificates, which are issued free of cost. A pleasing feature of this movement is the greater interest being taken by parents than was the case last season. FORTHCOMING EVENTS. Swimming carnivals and annual sports listed for the near future — February 24—Sacred Heart College, Tepid Baths, finals (Saturday, niglit, 7.30). February 27—Seddon Memorial Technical College, girls. Shelly Beach, all day. February 27—Mount Eden Club's second carnival at Bellevue Koad. February 28—Seddon Memorial Technical College.' boys. Shelly Beach, all day. February .28—Takapuna Grammar School, boys and girls. Tepid Baths, 1 p.m. Miirclr- v 2—Mount Vy Albert Grammar School. Tepid Baths, 1.30 p.m.' March .3—Helensville Club's anuual carnival, afternoon. March 13—North Shore Club, second carnival, Tepid Baths (tentative). March 17—North Shore, annual harbour swim. . ■■ ; ============= ./