SHIMMING Seagar Beats Two Games Medallists

Press, Volume CI, Issue 30005, 14 December 1962, Page 15

SHIMMING Seagar Beats Two Games Medallists

(New Zealand Press Association)

AUCKLAND, Decemlier 13. A. H. Seagar, the Auckland 440 yards medley swimmer, who disappointed by finishing fifth in the Empire Games, defeated two of the men who won medals at Perth at a swimming carnival in Auckland tonight, but did not win the race.

The swimmers Seagar beat were A. Alexander (Australia). who won the gold, and J. G. Kelso (Canada), who won the bronze, but he was defeated by J. A. Gilchrist, a 17-year-old Canadian, who did not swim the medley at Perth. Seagar was beaten by less than a yard. If D. F. Gerrard had managed a longer dive off the starting blocks he might have defeated the Canadian Empire Games medallist, A. Meinhart. in a thrilling 110 yards butterfly race. Meinhart beat Gerrard by two feet—an advantage his dive had given him—and both swimmers recorded their personal best times of 62.2. R. W. D. Pound, the 20-year-old Canadian gold medallist, swam the fastest 110 yards freestyle ever recorded in New Zealand. His time was 56.8 sec. New Zealand’s silver medallist Miss V. Haddon, comfortably won the 220 yards breaststroke, but her time of 2min 58.1 sec was more than 2sec outside her best.

Results were:— MEN 110 Yards Freestyle.—R W D. Pound (Canada*. 56 8 1; J A. Gilchrist (Canada). 57 4 1; C. Phelps (Australia). 58 6 3. 220 Yards Backstroke —A P. Rot>ertson (New Zealand). 2:27.3, 1; J. G. Kebton (Canada). 2 30. 2; A Alexander (Australia), 2:37.6. 3. 110 Yards Butterfly.—A Mr inhart (Canada). 62 2.1; D F Gerrard (New Zealand), 62 22. G. R. Taylor (New Zealand*. 68 7 , 3. WOMEN 220 Yards Breaststroke.—V. J. Haddon (New Zealand) 2:58 1. 1: A. Glendenning (Canada). 3 0 7, 2; C. Cook (Canada). 3 29, 3. 110 Yards Backstroke —P Sargeant (Australia). 73 6. 1: M. Macrae (New Zealand). 75 9. 2. J. Dare (Auckland). MO. 3 220 Yards Freestyle.—Meinhart, 2:8.6. 1: Pound. i:95. 2: T. C. Dalton (New Zealand). 2:12.3. 3. 440 Yards Medley.—Gilchrist, 3:18.3. 1; A. H. Searar (New Zealand), 5:19 4. 2; Alexander. 5:25.1. 3 110 Yards Breaststroke-—S. Rabinovitch (Canada). 74.1, 1; H W. Graham (New Zealand), 77.3, 2: G Ruzio-Saban (New Zealand). 78.0. 3. 110 Yards Butterfly.--M. Stewat (Canada). 68 ", 1: V. McVicar (New Zealand). 81.8. 2. 220 Yards Freestyle.—P. Thompson (Canada). 225 4. 1; A McMillan (New Zealand). 2:26.1. 2; S. Nicholson iNew Zealand). 2:26.5. 3.