SWIMMING
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(By Telegraph —Press Association.) AUCKLAND, 23rd.March. At the swimming carnival to-night the Queensland champion, Grier, appeared in the. 100yds scratch race/iheetirig Dowsett, of Wanganui,: the New Zealand champion.. The race resulted: Grier I,' Dowsett '■ 2, Adamsdn 3.; Won by a foot.J Time, ,57 sec. , Dowsett's ■ time was 57 2'ssec, well under the New Zealand record.' " Grier also won the 440yds race by 13yds, in smin 37 ,'l-smc, Pelham being second, and Ehrtßht third. In an ' official attempt to break the New , Zealand . lOOyds.antermediate girls' record, Marie Farquhar,was successful in clipping one-fifth of a second off the record time. She covered the distance'iv 69 1-5. sec... , ■■' v -' '.'' :,, ■-. ■ • ''.■.■ ■■ ■' At.water polo the H.M.S. Diomede team beat one froihEvM.S. Delhi.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 71, 24 March 1926, Page 7
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119SWIMMING Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 71, 24 March 1926, Page 7
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