SWIMMING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 14285, 1 February 1907, Page 4

SWIMMING.

THE AUSTRALASIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS. Among the distinctions that have come to Christchurch with the Exhibition is thal of holding the Aust alasi.m Swimming Champions.-ips for the 19061907 season, an undertaking of some magnitude, incsmucn as representatives from four Australian States are to bo anong the c.mpetito s. The cha.i pionship meeting will comprise three aajs’ rac.ng, the first to-morrow and me second "and third on Thursday and Saturday of next week. Tlio Lancaster P„rk hath, the laigest in Christchurch, has been engaged for the three days, and the Canterbury Centro cf the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association, the body which has control, of . the championships, has taken every C’.re to put the bath in first-class order for the competitors, and to make the surroundings oainfc "table for spectators. To-morrow's programme will i’’chide the 100yds championship, in ' which New Smith Wales, Victoria, Ouecndand. West Australia and New Zealand will be strongly represented, the mile championship, the lOOvds ech-olb ye’ championship, for which New South W' les has sent a formidable representative, matches in the in-terpro-inc'al water polo champ:on>-Mp and two inter-club competitions. The Vfost * ufitr lian n"d Victorian renreGcn a’iv s 1 avs H e dv rpent some time in Ch-istchurch, and hrve given local swimmers a fo’foe of the : r quality. The New .South Wo’cs and Qneens’and representatives left Wellington for lest eveirng H. Ifoker and R. He~ly. two cf Australia’s finest ewiaimers •’-•e’in the Ne- Smith Wales tea n, and F. W. Springfield, the mile cliamrncn of Aiw'rala.sia, will bo the Qicrnslard repr eenforve. . The” arc accompanied by a number of- swimmers who intend to compete in +he baifofoao e-enfo. All the New Zealand centres will be e-trmigly represented ,-.’t the gatherin' l ", and it ie hoped that the New Zenfondens will ha able to; figure mo'-e pr-mnincntly in ths season s confer,'s than they have done in those of veers. . All the visiting swimmers wid welcomed by the Dmidv -Haver G. Paying) at the City Council Chambers at noon to-day,