UNIVERSITY CHAMPIONSHIPS

Evening Star, Issue 21992, 30 March 1935, Page 6

UNIVERSITY CHAMPIONSHIPS

The University Swimming Club will conduct the annual interfacility swimming championships at the Municipal Baths on Tuesday night, and indications point to this being one of the best carnivals of the season. The competitors will include the New Zealand University champion, D. H. Symes, who is the holder also of the national 440 yards title, and his opponents in the 220 yards and 440 yards events will indude J. Neville, the brilliant Taranaki swimmer who gave such a good account of himself at Auckland in the national championships in February. There will be good competition in most of the events, and the women’s races should also he well contested, while the interfacility relay promises to he one of the events of the evening. Among the special attractions will bo fbe water polo match between a team from H.M.S. Sussex and the R.N.V.R.. The sailors will also compete against the R.N.V.R. in a special four-a-side relay. /There will be several interclub events, iiicludin<f a medley tlirce-a-side relay. IV. J. .farvis, the New Zealand 100 yards and 220 yards champion, has consented to give a display, and this will be liis first Dunedin appearance since the national championships. P. E. Matbieson, the New Zealand 150 yards backstroke champion and record holder, will also give a display. On April 22 the New Zealand University swimming championships will be held in Dunedin, so that the form shown on Tuesday night by the swimmers will afford an indication of Otago’s likely strength. Particulars are advertised.