CLUB SWINGING.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19769, 6 November 1929, Page 15

CLUB SWINGING.

I to -*« catro* or r»» [ Sir, —In view of »h«* fact that Capj 'ar* T. B. Bax'* clatm to a world ! endurance record, officially ma ie, ha*, aft*r listen years, bwn diaputed. your reader* wilt be interested to leara under what f.ireamstance.o, an-! when. previous , | endurance inging records have j been made. Earlier records were Tom j Rurrowa, 8} hour*, made at Aldershot, land 1J hour* made by Pergeant Batterslb'.*. alto at Aldershot. In each of those i performances clubs of the weight of j Jib eacb, aad measuring -lin in length, 'were n*ed, and naturally anyone attacki ;ng the record sough" to do so under j •ia«e!v the Mine rditi".-..*. and with ! the *a»e weight m l dimensions Of i -labs. Captain Bax*« first attempt on the rc-..rd wat at Blenheim io 1 » 9 "'. fcv-n hj» *et a new record of 1-1 hour*, •at thif dil not last lrnig. for is thc ».imr year at Wellington he raixed the -.•cord" up to '-»> hours. At Sydney in 1 -iJW he- put up a new raeord of 2S hour*. and at Newcastle (New South Wale-* i in I*9" he carried on for 4'"» \ocn». At Napier in 1?04 Captain Bax .: r-*3!»ed his record to 41 hour# Tmin, imt at Soathend-onfea, England, in this was raited to «* hmir*. -Inst ; at this time there wai a vogu* for enJaranee elub-awinging. an'! records did ' s-ot remain long, but at Wairoa. llawke « Bay. in l;>t3, Captain Bit again put a i new record on the list, with ICO hour* !. «j miootes. This »too>l for a short 1 w hi'e ontv. *o that to maintain hi* i -itte. Captain Ba* at Napi'-r. as already »*a 'ed, to the closing dan of l£!3. earned hi* figures stili farther and placed ; 'in- record at !!'*• hoar* 33 minutes, ! whteJi ha* r.>>t yet been beaten. \ It is stated that Captain Rax'* r- ; ee.r.J t* not an offleiat one. It i* OS -ffirial as any that hare be«-n made by ia a r other rtaimant before or since. In . r»ch of hi* ttaayt a eoainiitte* of pro msnent ritirens has been appointed , supervise earryinc ol *t of the tea.. 'nr.d '!>• *e with timekeepers ha\ • kept ' i-o«tinne*is wateh on the per former, and haw . er-.txe I th- a«-ei:rv->- e* the f.g-jre* j tail tn the prop** .-arrvin? •••-.: "f the f test. Voors. etc., C. PRICE. Nitv *r, V. *- "Ah, I'-'-TT 1 .