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AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS JOYCE COOPER'S FAST TIME Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. BRISBANE, January 26. Kalili demonstrated his versatility when he brilliantly won the 300yds medley Australian championship, introduced for the first time in this country, and comprising 100yds breast-stroke, 100yds back-stroke; and 100yds free style. Ilis time was 3min 58 4-Ssec. The Olympic breast-stroke champion. Miss Claire Dennis, winning the 220yds breast-stroke, broke Miss D. Thompson’s Queensland record by 12 l-ssec. The English visitor. Miss Joyce Cooper, gave all the competitors a lesson in the women’s 100yds back-stroke with her effortless, powerful stroke, winning her event in Imin 13 3-ssec, which was 6seo better than L. Venning’s Queensland record. Kalili and Miss Cooper were ineligible for the title. Results: 300yds Medley—A. King (Victoria) 1, A. Crawford (Victoria) 2, T. Boast (Queensland) 3. Time, 4min 1 l-ssec. Women’s 220yds Breast-stroke.—Miss Claire Dennis (N.S.W.) 1, Miss Phyllis Thompson (Queensland) 2. Only starters. Time, 2min 12 4-ssec, ' Women’s 100yds Back-stroke.—Miss Kilty Mackay (N.S.W.) 1, Miss Frances Bull (Victoria) 2, Miss Evelyn Middleton (Queensland) 3. Time, Imin 19 3-ssec.
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Evening Star, Issue 21630, 27 January 1934, Page 17
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