Sportsman’s Notebook Miss D. Fraser To Swim In City Next Month

Press, Volume C, Issue 29673, 17 November 1961, Page 23

Sportsman’s Notebook Miss D. Fraser To Swim In City Next Month

The world’s fastest woman rammer. Miss D. Fraser, of South Australoa. will compete in a carnival at the Centennial Pool on December 13. « Wednesday. The special fixture has been arranged at short notice by the management corrrrcttee of tihe Canter'oury Swimming Centre af.er receiving confirmation of the champion’s visit from rhe Onehunga Club, which is sponTOtzig tihe trip. Miss Fraser, now 24 years of age. has built up an illustrious record in swimming in ittie teet sax years. She achieved international prominence at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne by winning tihe women’s 100 metres freestyle in the then world record time of 62sec. At the same Games she was second in the 400 metres frees yle and was a member of the Aue’-alian team which broke the world 4 x 100 metres relay record. Last year, at Rome. Miss F -aser again won the 100 metres freestyle—the first woman to win the event twice. Two years previously she had triumphed in the 110yds freestyle at the Empire Games in Cardiff, in world record time, filled second place in the 440yds freestyle and helped Australia to win the women's 4 x 110yds freestyle relay, again in world record time. Perhaps her greatest series of performance* were those

of the 1960 Australian championchiips. at Sydney. She won four titles and created three world records—lloyds end 220yds freestyle and 110yds butterfly. In the 440yds freestyle event she beat Miss I. Konrads, the then world record holder. A remarkable feature of these performances was that she set two world records 1110yds bu terfly and 110yds frees'ylei wiitbin a space of 30 minutes. The butterfly mark has «nee been bettered but Miss Fraser’s times of 60.2 sec for 100 metres and 110yds and 2min 11.flsec for 200 metres and 220>ds still stand as world records. • Ait the last Aus’ralian championships, in Feb-uary of this year, she arain won the three freestyle t-.tles. her 100 metres time being 61sec. Miss Fraser will have as her companion on the twoweek tour of New Zealand. Miss N. Shepherd, a 15-year-old breaststroke swimmer. She is one of tihe crop of promising competitors being groomed for Perth and, ultimately. for Tokyo. ¥ * * Balloted Out 1’ was necessary to ballot nut several would-be con-•"'-ants in the twer.ty-flfih • "~ver*ary golf tournament of ’he Returned Services’ Association to be held at the Tem-Meton club’s links next Fundav One hundred and forty-four players will compete for a wide range of ’-onhiee which have been presented for the occasion. ¥ ¥ ¥ Coaching Courses The first of the- courses to be held in New Zealand during the -ummer months for F.ugby League coaches will be conduc’ed at Sylvan •'rest tomorrow and on F'mday under the guidance of the national advisory coach. Mr C R Mountford The course will start each morning at 9 30 a m and will continue through most of the day During the last tew weeks Mr Mountford has “ooken to coaches in Canterbury. Otago, Wellington ’rd Manawatu to arrange dates for his courses. At

Dunedin. a centre where ' Rugby League is in its infancy, Mr Mountford met with great response and more than 20 persons attended his meeting. ¥ ¥ ¥ Change Of Dates? To avoid a conflict of dates I with the Canada Cup’, the New Zealand Golf Association decided to arproach the Titirangi Golf Club with a request that the New Zealand open golf championship meeting dates be altered. This was decided at a meeting of the association earlier in the month. The date set for the championship is November 7 to 14, 1962; proposed dates are either October 24 to 31. or October 25 to November 1, if considered desirable. In view of the necessity to select a golf team to represent New Zealand at the 1962 world amateur gclf championship at Tokyo, it was decided to appoint a selection committee. The only nominations were those of Messrs K. S. Glendinning. V. C. Hollis, and J. A. Scouler, who were re-elected. ¥ ¥ ¥ Top Sports’ Votes When Miss A. Mortimer was recently voted the British Sports Writers’ Association’s sportswoman of the year, she became the first lawn tennis player of either sex to win the association’s top plate vote. The sportsman of the year, the world middle-weight boxing champion. T. Downes, was the first boxer to win the award since R. Turpin in 1951. Other placings in order were: J. Haynes, captain of the English soccer team: the winner of two grand prix races. S. Moss: the fastest quarter-mile runner in the world this year. A. Metcalf: M. Hailworth, the first man to -win three motor-cycling T-T.’s: the Wimbledon semifinalist M. J. Sanester: the world bantam-weight boxing champion. J. Caldwell: the greatest threat to American shot putters. A. Rowe; the British Ryder Cup golf captain, D. Rees: and the leading British jockey, L. Piggott. Miss Mortimer won her title bv a narrow margin from the World Student Games diving champion. Miss A. Ferris. Other placings were: horsewoman, Miss P. Smythe: French tennis champion. Miss A. Haydon: Wimbledon semi-finalist. Miss C. Trueman: world ice skating dance champion. Miss D Denny; breaststroke swimmer. Mi’< A. Lonsbrough: Miss M. Spearman. the British women’s golf champion; the table tennis player. Miss D. Rowe: and the athlete, Miss T. Hopkins. ¥ ¥ ¥ Sponsored Players A large number of sponsored junior tennis players will compete in the Canterbury championships and the national championships in Christchurch this season. Those who will play in both the Canterbury charmion-=-hips from December 26 to 29 and the national cham-oior-hins from January 6 to 13 include members of the iunicr Davis Cup squad—J. B. Souter. R N. Hawkes, R G. Clarke (Wellington), G. Moss. C. G. Judge (Canterbury). R. Thomson (Waikato) and B Young (Auckland) will not compete because they will be at the Orange Bowl tournament in Miami Girls who will play in both tournaments are Misse* E. Green. M. A. Smith. P. Belton. P. O’Carroll (Auckland). E Terry (Waikato). and E. Cavaye (Hutt Valley). Those who will play in the national championships only after attending various other tournaments will be P. Kelly (Manawatu), R. Purser (Auckland’, J. Taylor (Hutt Valley). J Walker (Waikato), K. O’Carroll (Northland’. J. Anderson (Wellington). and R. Callander ■ Wellington). Girls will be Misses B Tietjens. G Landed s. C. Drummond, A. Glenie (Auckland). A. Walker (Wellington), G. Hirst (Hutt Valley), S. Sutton (Otago), and L. Cullen (Southland). Traffic Laning.— The laning of approaches to busy intersections has been investigated by the City Council’s traffic committee as a means of improving the flow of traffic. As a trial, the council agreed to the laning of the intersection of Gloucester and Manchester streets.