SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

Evening Star, Issue 21320, 26 January 1933, Page 9

SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

INTERMEDIATE AND JUNIORS FINAL TRAINING WORK-OUTS [From Our Special Reporter.] INVERCARGILL, January 25. The Municipal Baths presented a busy scene this morning, when most of the visiting competitors for the New Zealand intermediate and junior championships were putting the final touches to their training preparations.. All the, members of the Otago team had good work-outs, and W. J. Jarvis and S. Jarvis both impressed the onlookers by the ease of their swimming. The former is in great form, and the same applies to Noel Crump (Auckland), who indulged in some good solid swimming, showing plenty of dash. The xixeeting of Crump and W. J. Jarvis over 100yds is being eagerly awaited and is already the topic of conversation locally. W. Johnson (Auckland) is another intermediate who has impressed in training. The junior free-stylo title-holder, Sid Jaiwis, should be at the top of his form for his fix’st race to-morrow, and both Reg. Geddes and Clive Elliott, Otago intermediate breast-stroke representatives, xvent over five laps on the breaststroke- at a good clip this morning. Geddes likes the Invercargill water, and it is quite on the cards that he will go close to his own record of 75 3-ssec in the intermediate boys’ 100yds breast-stroke. Arthur Williams, the Otago intermediate boys’ diving champion, has three days to accustom himself fully to the local diving boards, and this morning had a good try-out of all his dives for over an hour. He quickly made himself at home with the low board, and though the 10ft board presented more difficulty, he was getting the “ feel ” of it by the end of bis workout. Williams knows his compulsories well, and should also score with his voluntaries. Misses Winnie Newall and Gwen Rix (Otago intermediate girls) had easy swims on the free style, but Miss Mavis Pockson (the Otago breast-stroke intermediate girls’ champion) does not arrive here until to-morrow.. Miss Edna Rainey (Auckland),, who won the New Zealand junior girls’ 50yds championship last year and registered startling times recently, has not yet approached her Auckland times, and if she fails to do so this will make the issue in this'class still more interesting, with Misses R. Low (Canterbury), winner of the New Zealand junior girls last year, and Miss W. Newall possibly 1 disputing the issue with Miss Rainey, though Miss Spore (who won the New Zealand intermediate girls’ 100yds last year), will be hard to deprive of her title. Miss A. Gillies, the Otago junior girl, showed her best form to date when training this morning, and Miss V. Auckland, the Otago junior girls’ breast-stroke swimmer, also swam impressively to-day. M. Hopping, the Wellington junior, will not be competing owing to being over age, and Wellington will be represented by only one competitor. The Otago team has received a number of telegrams wishing it the best of luck in its quest for the War Memorial Shield, and a letter from the Oamaru Amateur Swimming Club was especially appreciated by members of the Otago party. The local baths have been the subject of much laudatory comment on the part of the visitors, some of the northerners classing it as the best-ap-pointed and most spick-and-span tepid bath in the dominion. ' The water should be conducive to good times, and the baths superintendent (Mr H. S. Baker) has been working hard to have it right up to the mark for the opening of the championships. Many people have been inclined to regard the Invercargill water as slow, but with the amount of aeration that has been done lately the water should be quite up to that pf northern pools, and the championships will determine what difference there may be. Large crowds have attended the training work-outs of the various swimmers, and big attendances are anticipated for each session of the meeting, the heats of which will be held on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday afternoons, the finals being decided each night.