LABOUR NIGHT SWIMMING CARNIVAL

Evening Star, Issue 21240, 22 October 1932, Page 17

LABOUR NIGHT SWIMMING CARNIVAL

SAILORS APPEARING IN NOVELTY A special feature of the Labour night swimming carnival at the Municipal Baths on Monday night will be a most amusing novelty hy sailors from the H.M.S. Diomede, and which has been arranged through the kindness of the physical training instructor (Fetty-officer Canty). It is entitled * Crossing the Line/ and will occupy about half an hour of the programme. It was put on in Invercargill during the week. The sailors will also compote in a special ship’s open 53 l-3yds race, in which it is anticipated there will be twenty-two starters. Swimmers from Canterbury and Southland are competing against the local champions in the 50yds invitation scratch race, in which the swimmers include D. H. Symes (Canterbury record-holder, and now a member of the University Club). A. T. F. Stokes (well-known Canterbury and ex-New Zealand champion), Walter Jarvis (who recently broke the 50yds New Zealand record by swimming the distance in 25£scc), Reg. Geddes (breaker of many records), and 0. Wood (now of Southland, but formerly a well-known Canterbury swimmer). This is expected to provide the fastest 50yds race yet seen in Dunedin. Among the other events to be decided are the 100yds intorchib handicap, a water polo match between Otago and the Rest, in which A. T. F. Stokes, a member of the Canterbury champion team, will play for the Rest. Several novelties are being arranged. The usual official opening ceremony at this carnival will be dispensed with, but patrons will be afforded the opportunity of seeing Father Neptune in all his glory before the ordinary swimming events are held. Later on, His Salt-water Majesty will conduct a most impressive ceremony with the assistance of twenty-sis assistants. Patrons are promised the best night’s entertainment at i the baths tor a long time. i