SWIMMING
The New - Zealand, championship meeting is fast approaching, opening as it. does in Napier on the 23rd of this month. The programme for the meeting is admirably arranged to spread the interest of the championship events throughout the week of its duration. The lirst day opens with the one mile, 100 yards, and 100 yards ladies’ championships, and the first round of the water polo championship, one round of which will be played each day. Each night non-championship events .'will make up the daily programme. The second day includes the 220 yards, 150 yards, back-stroke, and 220 yards ladies’ championship, besides the first stage of the diving championship. On the third day the 880 i yards, 220 yards breast-stroke and 220 yards ladies’ breast-stroke events will be brought off, and on the fourth and final day the 440 yards, 440 yards ladies, and ladies’ diving championships will be the star items on the programme.
Tiie recent defection from the amateur ranks of Miss Gertrude Ederle has deprived the New York Women’s Swimming Association of another famous swimmer and world’s record holder. Miss Ederle held 16 American records and eight w r orld’s records. She first attracted attention when she won a three and a half mile race in New' York from a. field of 52 international swimmers. Miss Ethelda Bleibtrey and Miss Helen Waimvright, former American amateur champions, and Miss Hilda. James, the English girl who was in Auckland recently, are three more great amateurs w r ho have altered their status in recent years. Erank Doyle,, the young New South Wales champion, lowered the Sydney Club’s record for 100 yards recently. It was put up by W. Harris, the big American. Doyle’s time w r as 56 4-5 seconds —three-fifths of a second better than Harris’s. He won easily, and his performance in the hard sAvimming water of Coogee makes the Sydney people confident of their champion’s chances in the Australian championship. Doyle is improving every week, and experts expet him to approach the American champions’ standard before the season ends
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 16 January 1926, Page 12
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343SWIMMING Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 16 January 1926, Page 12
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