SWIMMING.
NEW WORLD’S RECORDS
THREE MORE ESTABLISHED
Received January 25, 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, , Jan. 24. Three world swimming records held by Johnny Weismuller were broken at Buffalo last evening. Walter Laufer, of Cincinnati, clipped two-fifths of a second off tho 100 yards back stroke, which he swam in 1.5, and then without stopping ho went 100 metres further in 1.11 1-5, compared with Weis- • Walter Spence, of Brooklyn, swam 100 yards breast stroke in 1.9 2-5, establishing a new record by a full second.—A. and N.Z. and Reuter.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 47, 25 January 1926, Page 7
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89SWIMMING. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 47, 25 January 1926, Page 7
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