CLUB SWINGING.
The club swinging record hardly lasts a month. Qnly a. week or so bacK, Tom Burrows defeated Harry Lawson at the /Town Hall, Boulder City (Western Australia) on points for the World's Championship. .... Both were swinging at the call of time, which was at five minutes over, the record of-75 hours 15 minutes. The hall was packed to the-doors. Burrows was accorded an ovation for his splendid, exhibition of club-swinging. Lawson challenged Burrows again, but the champion wants to meet Griffiths at Kalgobrlie first.' Burrows is to receive a championship medal from the Boulder ; public. Arrangements by which. Jack Griffiths. was to make tho third ' man swinging fell through, owing to Burrows and Lawson refusing to allow the New South Wales champion espouses.' ' At the sarno time that Burrows and Lawson finished their match and bent tile previous best by five minutes,. Jack Griffiths went live minutes further'still at Lith:gow, and thereby established the world's record of 75 hours 25 minutes.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 914, 6 September 1910, Page 7
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163CLUB SWINGING. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 914, 6 September 1910, Page 7
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