SWIMMING

Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1938, Page 6

SWIMMING

COAST CHAMPIONSHIPS AT ' REEFTON.' .

(Per Press Association—Copyright)*

REEFTON, February 10,

The West Coast- amateur : swimming championships, controlled by the Reelton Swimming Club, was held at the Reefton public .baths last evening in fine co> '■ weather, and before probably the largest attendance that a swimming gathering has ever drawn here, including many visitors frorii Westport and •Greymouth and the surrounding district. The arrangements and conduct of the championships-were all' that ’could be desired ayd reflected' great credit on the officials of the R6efton Club, headed by the Mr J: IDeliaca, find assisted by members of the : Wes& Const Swimming Centre. " Quite ia“ number 1 ' of records were broken and in particular P: 'Foote,' the Westport b'ov, showed "himself a fine swimmer, who should'do evert greater things in future:" C. Davison iii'winning- the 50 yards junior championship established a new Coast the distance in hiS class.' In Whining the 100 yards eliapipiorishiof’P. Fdote lowered the record bythree seconds:" The 220 yards championship was also won by him, and iirthis he lowered the’ record by no less ‘ than eleven' and fOur-fVth seconds. Had this'sh immer beeft'in'the SO "yards Championship, ! lte almost Certainly 'would 'havewori three titles, its he kwam tbe fifst' half of the' loo‘*yards championship even'in faster tim'e than the winnhr of the'so'yards'title tooXHor the distance.' CblmFOote,’ his lyrothfer, also of Westport, who won the 100'Vards backstroke championship : cut 'down' tlio previbusHecord time, set by'Tiim’self to the extent of "five -and l'three-fifth"sec-onds:' H-.* Sclioix,- the'Reefton'sWimmer, won tw6 champibiisliipsV the 50 yards and lOO'yardy breasUstfoke:"'The Greymouth glirl Mis:} ft. 'Hughes,' farnierly of Canterbury, easily Word both of -the ladies" championships, befititig the ‘exchamp. Miss J:’ Walls o c Westport,; in the 50 yards (in which 'she layered the record by a fifth of a secbti'd) aild'ip the 100 yards (in Which shis clipped' one* ana - two-fifth seconds’off the fCcb’rd).-£* SwimtnerS ’ ffbril' : Hdkitika Svho were successful in gaining it' place iVCre R. 'Ferguson first in theMOO yardk boyCs fn- _ teimedifitc find'see6nd s iii the bby’s’intefiriCdiate, aikl' Miss Tftrifbrpe; first'in - the lOOWft'rdfi girl’s'intermediate and second in the' 50 yardsi’girl’s’tntermedirtte. " 1v "

The large attendance is indicated by the fact that the “gate” was Worth’£4l.