PAIR-OAR EVENT

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 38, 13 August 1932, Page 10

PAIR-OAR EVENT

£ HEW -ZEALAND SECOND t SWIMMING CONTESTS I -:. t . JAPANESE PROMINENT ." Cnlted Prois Association—By Electrto Tele- - ■■•■-■■ graph— Copyright; .'. (Eecetved 13th August, 2 p.m.) f .■'"■ LOS ANGELES, 12th August. -: The. continuation of the swimming -events at the Olympic Games produced \ iurther evidence of the strength of r Japan's bidding for world honours in this section. On performances to date ... the Japanese and the Americans are likely to continue, the very keen battle '" for 'swimming supremacy at the Games. '"'. Japan has three representatives in the ":; , final «f the 200 metres breast-stroke, ajnd i its representation was the same in the, final of the 100 metres back-stroke. ■; Others to qualify for the former event | --'. ■ include two Filipinos. Miss Helene ; Madison, who holds practically every :j women 'a record for free-style swimBJitig from 100 yds to a mile, is'one of ■-■■ the three representatives of the United States" who have qualified for the final of the 300 metres women's free-style '-.. •event. ' ■ ;The rowing at Long. Beach at. last ri . brought to New Zealand some measure of .success so far as competition in finals ': is concerned. Contesting the final of -^ ■ the pair_s without cox the New Zealanders; gained second place' to Great .;. ; Britain. Jin- the four-oared event with :. cox the New Zealanders, however, were beaten by the other competitors,- Ger- • many taking the principal honours. The ■ Germans, it is interesting to note, are . : trained by an ex-New Zealanclcr named Sullivan. ■'....