SWIMMING
RECORDS LOWERED
(By i'eiesrauh. —I'i-ust Association) AUCKLAXD, March 2S. In a special attempt on his own New Zealand .record for 100 metres in the tepid biiths tonight. Xoul Crump, the | Dominion champion swimmer, covered the I rl'iHluiice in 80 4-O3CC-, bi-cukinj; the record lie established hist week by two-iifths of a aerond. 11l the course of tlio same swim Crump | did 100 yards in o-l 4-osee, this also bcinj: two-titllis taster than lii.s own New Zea!la ml reco\-d. , . Crump's metres time is Ijctter than the best by the Australian llyau by tlnee-tifthc-of a second. "Marjorie ISlack, the twelve-year-old swimmer, swam "fifty yards in 20 4-oaoc. lowering the New Zealand junior girls' record held by D. Syme, luvercargill, by two-fifths of a second.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 75, 29 March 1934, Page 14
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123SWIMMING Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 75, 29 March 1934, Page 14
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