SWIMMING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 27, 26 October 1907, Page 9

SWIMMING.

1 (By Splash.) ' It was stated.at-the'-annual meeting of tlio New' South .Wales Association that tho heavy expense incurred in encouraging and assisting country swimming and sending a team to New. Zealand for tho Australasian Championship meetjiiig had made a big inroad upon the Association's funds. : Another ,very -line performance ,by, a lady is thusjoferred to by .the "Athletic News":— In view; of,.the' probability,of. Miss Etta Mac-, kay. meoti.ng , JXiss. Maggie ■ Scott, r of, Bacir-v in a,;22oyds.;,race, at Burnley, on-September 21, as a result, of tho Lancashire lady's challenge .to tliOjWprld from 100 yds. to a quartermile, a performance by, the.Scottish lady champion will bo of. interest.- Miss iMackay swam.-'iOOyds. in 2min. olsec., which time beats,.-any,..figures. I know, of, and cuts .considerable- off| Miss M'Laughlin's Scottish amateur record, created in 1905, .of 3min/ 13 4-oscc. ......

Miss J. Fletcher, of Leicester, winner of the Ladies' 100 yds.' Championship of England in 19067 won a 100 yds. scratch raco at Liverpool, on-August 29, in lmin. 19sec., which is a .world's record by a lady, being ' l-ssec. better, than-the time made.by Miss D. Hill, on February IG, 1907, when.'sho" won tlio championship of New. South Wales.

; The one-time champibn'sprintcr'of England, J. H. Derbyshire,- lihs not. entirely 4 retired, from tlio: sport., On 29 , he'won tho 150yd5... Northern' •' Courit-ies Championship,with case, in, lmin. 3S 1 ,4-sscc., tinie \which proves, that lie has not iost his form. . De HalmayJ tho Austrian, followed up his success in the.22oyds. championship-of England, by. covering 150 yds. at Weston-super-Mare, , in, lmin.. 35 /3-osec.,. or' 2-osec. hotter than, tlio Ejiglish record put up by Daniels, tho American, on July 17,,1906. :

; Swimming is not without ;an element of danger. But if'wo eliminate'the danger , resulting from carelessness, .swimming is ;probably little more dangerousitban other active, exorcises,- such 'as cycling, 'boxing; wrestling, and riding.—" Scienco Sittings'.-"- ■■ ,

At tho arin.udl '.mjeetirig-'of "tho.Wales ' Association ari'\ahhduncbment, was lhade to the. effect that, .owing to. the world's Olympic Games taking 1 place m London next year, tho.'Association, of, that country could not. then. send representatives to 'Australia, but they would favourably, consider tho matter iii tile-following year.' ! Tho following now records,.were,,passed at -tlio samo meeting':— R: lSm'iri. 0. 2-ssec.; C. Healy,:looyd3!^s7s6c.\ l^.', -'-'- :