Only Two Weeks Left For Games Swimmers

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31029, 7 April 1966, Page 19

Only Two Weeks Left For Games Swimmers

our Swimming Reporter) It was hoped to bring the national swimming selectors together on April 23 to complete nominations for the Empire (James team, the chairman of the New’ Zealand Amateur Swimming Association’s council (Mr A. J. Donaldson) said yesterday.

Plans are afoot to hold special diving trials for the national springboard champions, R. Hood (Waikato) and Miss G. Morley (Hawke’s Bay). It is hoped that the LatterDay Saints' indoor pool at Hamilton will be available for this purpose. The suggested dates are either April 16 or 23, but the latter day is favoured. If present plans come to fruition, the selectors (Messrs Donaldson. E. Shakespeare

;and K. Bentley) will hold; I their final deliberations on the swimming and diving nominations after the trials. SIX NOMINATED Already six swimmers have been nominated and since the national championships in Napier a further three competitors have come into the . reckoning strongly. t - Much of the interest in i 1 swimming in the next two - weeks will be focussed on 5 Dunedin, as leading competis tors not already nominated seek to reach the target a times in the balmy waters of Sjthe Moana pool. e Miss K. Taylor (Taranaki)

achieved the goal in women’s | 110 yd butterfly on Monday and R. D. Walker and Miss J. Vanston (Wellington) and A. B. Kindred and Miss A. McMillan (Canterbury) are among prominent competitors who will be trying for faster times in the pool in the next fortnight. NOT GOOD ENOUGH Walker broke both the men's 120 yd and 440 yd freestyle records in Dunedin last month, but was still short ofj 'the target times. 1 The selectors have received .advice from the University of 'Oregon that S. Bond (TaraInaki), the former New Zealand three-mile ehampion, set .a freshman’s record of 18min 146.25ec for 1650 yd freestyle i recently—but this is slower than the efforts of Walker and Kindred in the national championship final in February. The letter from America said Bond had set his sights ;on breaking 18min for the distance in mid-May. But this i would be too late for coni sideration by the selectors I and Bond is to be advised that [time is running out.