MORE SWIMMING RECORDS.
MONA LEYDON'S FINE FEAT
(By Telegraph —Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Last Night. The Australian and New Zealand ladies' swimming records for 440 yards freestyle were broken by Miss Mona Leydon at the Auckland Swimming iCentrc's championship carnival. Her time was smin 46 2-ssecs.. lowering her own record by one second and Miss Edna Davey's Australian figures by 3 4-5 sees.
DISTANCE RUNNER LOWERS TWO-MILE RECORD.
CHEISTCHURCII, Last Night. The well-known distance athlete, CII. Matthews, broke the New Zealand two-mile record at Lancaster Park this evening. His time was 9min 17 3-ssecs., two-fifths of a second better than the record he himself established at Napier in December. On .Saturdayhe will make an attempt on the threemile record held by J. W. Savidan, of Auckland.
G. E. Giles, sprint cycling champion, riding at English Park, won the quarter-mile in 30 l-'ssec. The time is believed to be the best yet recorded on a banked track in New Zealand. Application will be made for recognition of this time as a national record-
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HC19360205.2.28
Bibliographic details
Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 February 1936, Page 5
Word Count
171MORE SWIMMING RECORDS. Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 February 1936, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Horowhenua Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence . This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.