Swimming Well Treated

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31061, 17 May 1966, Page 18

Swimming Well Treated

(From Our Swimming Reporter)

Swimming has been well treated die selectors; the contingent of 10 for Jamaica is the largest New Zealand has sent overseas for an Empire or an Olympic Games.

The good standard of the country’s swimming has been recognised by the choice of six swimmers in category A.

The only puzzling aspect is that the selectors have separated P. J. O’Carroll and H. W. Brown, the two backstroke competitors who, to all intents and purposes, have been equal all last summer. The omission of R. D. Walker (Wellington), the freestyle champion, and Miss K. Taylor (Taranaki), the secondstring women’s butterfly com-

petitor, was not surprising. But the women’s springboard diving champion, Miss G. Morley (Hawke’s Bay), is a little unlucky as she has achieved considerable polish in her three years as national champion.

Walker's omission dashes hopes of New Zealand entering a good class team in the men's medley relay. Miss Shipston's inclusion will be applauded, not only locally, for she has displayed exceptional racing temperament for one so young. The swimmers chosen form a mature group, eight of them being betwen 19 and 21 years of age. Hood, the men's diving champion, is the oldest at 26. Gerrard, Seagar, Misses Haddon annd Macrae all swam for New Zealand at the last Empire Games at Perth.