SWIMMING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 112, 4 February 1908, Page 5

SWIMMING.

A .100.. Yards. Club Handicap was got" off by the Swifts', Amateur Svimming- Club at t.lio To Aro..Baths last evening. The tide was good and the. water -perfectly, smooth.- A 'Rood'race' reMilted in a win 'for; C. Moore (lfispe,), with C Fordhiim (7sec.) ■ second, and K. Jenkinsoii I'.£?•)■.-third;.- Tlieother 'competitors were •—J3 5> lonic (17scc.) W: Wilton (ISseo.), I'. Moore (pec.)> B. G. Irevberg (ser.) .The time was slsec., .1-orne and Moore swam neck and neck for, the first, 50yds,, but soon after turning jmp -.tnc-. final stretch . Moore took the lend, idrdharh-and Jenkinson'being in close attendance; and Iroyberg coming ••■along at'a great jjace.'.iri the rear. TII6 last-mentioned swimmer finished strong, and dead-heated with Moore, bii \ disqualified for. leaving the startiiignoanl a second before his time. ' WATER POLO. MATCHES. V 'At a meeting of the Wellington Centre of the ••Sew--- Zealand Amateur Swimming Association last- evening, Mr. L. W. Ludwig presiding,, the ,&econci round .of matches for the water polo championship was- drawn up, as follows — February 17—Swift, v. Wellington (To! Avo Baths); 18th— I Thorndou v. (Tliormlbn Baths ; m.h-Y.M.C.A.. v. Wellington (Te Aro Baths ; March :l-r\.M.C.A. v. Thorndon (To Aro It was .agreed that five minute' spoils bc'hclu lnsteail of-spells of'scvcn luiuutcs.