AUCKLAND CENTRE

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 38, 15 February 1937, Page 14

AUCKLAND CENTRE

j SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS. I Benefited by extended training, competitors in the Auckland senior swimming championships, which will be decided in the Tepid Baths on March 2. should put up notable performances. Sprint and middle distance championships will be swum, and the contestants will include R. B. Frankham (national champion for 100 yards). P. Hanan. W. Johnson. A. Pascoe. C. R. Buchanan. X. ('rump, and Mrs. W. O. Stockley. Misses M. Leyclon, V. Coulthurst, X. Ludlow and X. Barton. The performances of the most successful swimmers will influence the selection of the Xew Zealand team for the Empire . Games'next year. 1 Championships to be contested in the ' men's and ladies' divisions are: —100 yds I and 220 yds freestyle. 100 yds backstroke, 230 yds breastetroke, diving. I EASTERN SUBURBS. MORE POINTS CONTESTS. The points competitions for members of : tbe Eastern Suburbs Amateur Swlmmitu ' and Life-savin* Club wer? continued ai > Kohlmarama Beach yesterday morning, most '•" of the finishes being close. Results*— 8 Girls, under 10 years. 25 yards.—Pats] » Maber, Bs, 1 ; Shirley Soper, scr. 2. J Girls, 12 years and under. 33 1-3 yards.— » Jeanette Miller. ss. 1: Shirley Atchison '. sers-&;'lrftis Soper, r»s, 3. -- ■ Boys. 12 years and under, 33 1-3 yards.— t T. Maber. scr. I';" • ' - - - a Boys. 14 years and under, 33 1-3 vards.— I. T. Maber. Bs, 1: R. Wylle. scr, 2. t " Cflrls, 14 years and under. 50 vards.— 9 JoaH*White. scr. 1 ; Shirley Atchison, Is, 'J Jeanette Miller, ss, 3. /Intermediate Boys, under 17 years. 5< yards.—O. Munro, 6s, 1: R. Wylle, scr, 2. -Intermediate * Girl*, under 17 vears.Molly Watkln. scr, 1 : Joan White, 2s. 2. Men, 50 yards.—D. Miller, scr. 1 ; H Atchison, Is, 2; J. Appleyard, 4s, 3. KOBTH SHORE CLUB. , CARNIVAL AT MIIFORD POOL. i » Members of the Australian surf life r ' saving team, who have been performln • j creditably In the south, will take part in . j swimming carnival arranged by the Xort j Shore Amateur Swimming and Life-savin • Clnb and tbe Surf Life-savin? Assoclatio: II (Auckland) next Saturday night in th i Milford nool. Auckland's fastest mnl I swimmers will be matched with the Australians 'tralians In handicap events over 190 yards 220 yards and 440 yards. 'WORD FROM PERTH. AUSTRALIAN TRIP CANCELLED. i Mr. J. P. Sheedy. secretary of the Aus , trallan Swimming Union, has returned t< j' Perth from the Australian championship at Sydney. He has cabled to Mr. J. B ' i Miller, secretary of the Auckland centre o \ I tbe New Zealand Amateur Swimming Asso ' | elation, that as Misses Evelyn de Lace: ' and Dorothy Green <*annot make the trip • the proposed tour of New Zealand by th< ' I Australian swimmers (including the junto ': champion R. Newblggen) has been can celled. I ~ ; DOROTHT GREEK'S RECORD ■ ] PERTH. February 14. ITbe girl swimmer Miss Dorothv Greer yesterday won the West Australian 44< rards "dimming championship in 5.44J • l* ,w lowering the Australian women'! i record by a second.