SWIMMING RECORD ATTACEKED.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NAPIER, 3rd March. Miss K. Miller (Otago) to-night attempted to lower Miss G. Shand's record of 6min Bsec for tho 440 yards, but failed by 1 l-ssec. Miss Ena Stockley, Auckland, established tho time of 33 2-sscc for 50 metres, for which hitherto there has been no record in New Zealand.
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUr LAND, This Day. A new record of 48 4-ssec for tho 75 yards intermediate championship was registered by Canavan at tho Auckland Grammar School swimming sports at the tepid baths yesterday. Canavan clipped.7-10sec off tho flve-year-old record of .4<Hsee, which stood to tho credit of the late C. A. H. Sparling, a former school chamiion and one of Auckland's most promising young sprint swimmers, whose death occurred a few weeks ago.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19270305.2.101
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1927, Page 11
Word Count
136SWIMMING RECORD ATTACEKED. Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1927, Page 11
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.