SWIMMING

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 22, 27 January 1936, Page 13

SWIMMING

TWO RECORDS BROKEN

MAORI GIRL'S GREAT FORM

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

HAMILTON, January 26.

Two Dominion records were broken at the opening session of the New Zealand intermediate and junior swimming championships at Hamilton last evening. Miss I. Purdie (Otago) easily accounted for the favourite of the field, Dorothy Symon (Southland), to lower the 220 yds intermediate girls' freestyle record from 2min- 52 2-ssec to 2min 50 3-ssec, and Nawi Kera, the thirteen-year-old Maori girl, clipped 1 2-ssec off the junior girls' 100 yds, which she covered in 67 l-ssec. In the heats decided in the morning she had previously lowered the record to 68 l-ssec.

S. W. Jarvis (Otago) fought a great duel with A. Pascoe (Auckland) in the intermediate boys' 440 yds. The pair were together, well ahead of the field, for 400 yards when Jarvis sprinted to win by seven yards. Nawi Kera was in a class of her own, leading in Miss Black (Auckland) by six yards. Had the opposition been stronger she would have cut down the time even further. Detailed results are as follows:—

Intermediate Boys' 440 yds Freestyle. —S. W. Jarvis (Otago), 1; A. Pascoe (Auckland), 2; H. Goldsmith (Auckland), 3. Won by seven yards. Time, smin 33 l-ssec.

Intermediate Girls' 220yds.—Miss J. Purdie (Otago), 1; Miss A. Gotlieb (Wellington), 2; Miss D. Symon (Southland), 3. Won by eight yards. Time, 2min 503 sec—a New Zealand record.

Junior 75yds Breaststroke.—L. Robertson (Wellinaton), 1; J. Mitchell (Christchurcb), 2; M. Shanahan (South Canterbury), 3. Won by two feet. Time, 58 4-ssec. Junior Girls' 100 yds Freestyle.—Miss N. Kera (South Auckland). 1; Miss M. Black (Auckland), 2; Miss J. McDonald (Southland), 3. Won by six lengths. Time, 67 l-ssec—a New Zealand record. Junior Girls' Diving.—Miss P. Watts (Wanganui), 1. The only competitor.