SWIMMING
The official opening of the V.M.C.A. Amateur Swimming and Life-Saving Club's season will take place tomorrow afternoon, at Evans Bay, commencing at 2.30. The club is cooperating with the reinaugur'at'ed Evans' I Bay Swimming Club with events during the afternoon. Dr., F. M. Spen!cer, the club's president, will perform the opening ceremony. Club events'to be decided are ,50yds freestyle handicap, 50yds b'reaststroke • handicap, and 200 yds relay, of four men aside, each to cover 50yds, between V.M.C.A. and Evans Bay. The afternoon's proceedings will conclude with a water polo match between V.M.C.A. and Evans Bay. On Wednesday, December 11, at 5.30 p.m., the club will commence the Crouch Cup competition series at Te Aro Baths. The first race will be a 50yds freestyle handicap. The club has entered a team for the water polo championship, and members are reminded that practices will be held at Te Aro Baths, commencing next Wednesday, -Decemberll. Junior, members of the club will attend at Te Aro Baths tomorrow, and Saturday week, December 14, at 10.15 a.m., and Wednesday, December 11, and Wednesday, December 18, at 4 p.m., for coaching and short races. Boys who cannot swim at all vyill receive instruction. After the holidays, boys will attend on Wednesday and Saturdays, commencing January 15. It is desired to make an early start with life-saving practice. Those who have not yet qualified for any awards are asked to submit their names for the elementary, intermediate, and bronze, as a commencement. Holders of the bronze are requested to train for the award of merit (silver medallion). It is the desire of the club to see every V.M.C.A. member a swimmer: every swimmer a life-saver. Full particulars are available from the secretary, Mr. J. White.
The club looks forward to co-opera-tion of members in making the approaching season a highly successful one.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 137, 6 December 1935, Page 18
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