SWIMMING.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10725, 24 October 1928, Page 9

SWIMMING.

MISS MILLER AND OLYAfPJO GAMES, . 8 • AMERICAN LADIES TOO SPEEDY ■•‘.Miss Kathleen'Miller, who was af member of the team that represented NCw Zealand at the “ Olympic Games, ; the swimming at-/ the Games was -wonderful.. 'She was. inipressed particularly with the swimming of Miss'-Marthni Norelius;, whose stroke, she said, much resembled her own, save that Miss-Norelius; planed higher in' the water. Miss Miller returned a- 'tim©' I, bf omin lOsec when she wag' placed in her heat of the 400 metres event, arid considers, that if she could have shown her New Zealand form in the final she would probably have Been third, and certainly hot further" hack than fourth. The American' swimming standard, she said, was very high, and the swimihers trained hard. She found them- good opponents and very good sports. Save for Miss Cooper, the sprinter, Miss Miller cbhsiders that theFEnglish 'girls are not up to the best .New, Zealand standard. ” The South "Africans showed _ very good form, ’their-standard Being surprisingly high. .'-v ' ' t v s M&ss ; Miller and Miss wtockley showed.:.much better ; form at 'the Tailteanri' -Games 'in fTreTand than they did at the Olytnpie Games., Mss-Miller had--rio..; trouble in winning the TOO ’metres,/event - and/ in smashing the Tailteann record made by/Miss SBand /four years I ago. Miss Miller thinks Miss St'ockley- 'Was; ,untneky. riot /to - win the ’-sprint’ /eventTho swiiriming conditions at the Tmltcatin Games were very/; good, the temperature of ■ the •' •water being 52 . degrees/-T : : <,i, / ;•? The Now Zealand girls h/id great; difficulty 'in securing proper training facilities at ‘Amsterdam;* before the -Games',’ until Afr ‘John’ Hodgson, ,president of -.the ’ Northern ; Counties - Association- iff England iritereStetl himself on; their behalf anfl seetired Hieir admission to . the Stadium'hath. 1 '; { ■ f-> .r’* , •/Miss’. Miller was Warm in ner praise of the assistance given t,o her and Miss StodKley byf-AJi|s Lambert, one 'of - the -Olympic officials, whom they met at Panama. ‘ ‘Miss 'Lambert' • gave , useful hihts;’’ : said MissMilleri “and/.treato^iis:)very'’'hpspitaßlyJ,iifeY,,;'. * '