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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 26 January 1939, Page 11

I A r BACK TO SCHOOL WEAR AT SALE PRICES GIRLS’ BLACK ALL WOOL GYMNASIUM lIOSE. Usually 4/6. Sale 3/11. Usually 5/6. Sale 4/11. NAVY INTERLOCK BLOOMERS. Usually 2. 6. Sale 2/3. IS THE BIGGEST EVENT OF THE SEASON. BE SURE TO GET YOUR SHARE OF THESE REMARKABLE BARGAINS. SHOWROOM BARGAINS MILLINERY ALL REDUCED. Ready-to-Wear Hats selling in 3 groups. 6 11. for 2/11; 10/11, for 4/11; 16/11, for 6/11. LADIES’ FLORAL SILK FROCKS. Usually 18/11. Sale 9/11. CHILDREN’S SCHOOL FROCKS, all sizes. 1/6 to 2/11. WOMEN’S COTTON FROCKS. 2/11, 3/11, 5/6. CHILDREN’S SILK LOCKNIT PYJAMAS AND NIGHTDRESSES. Clearing: 4/11. GIRLS’ ALL WOOL SWIM SUITS, 16. 18. 20. Special 2/6. WOMEN’S PLAY SUITS, Sun Top and Shorts. Sale 4/3. LADIES’ SHORTS, fast colours Reduced to 2/11, 3/6, 4/6. LADIES’ SLACKS, fast colours. Usually 6 11. For 5/6. LADIES’ COTTON VESTS. 1/0, for l/-; 1/11. for 1/6. CHILDREN’S RUBBER CAPES. Clearing 1/6. ALL RUBBER COT SHEETS, reinforced corners. 1/9. DRASTIC CLEARANCE OF DRESS GOODS, many less than half-price. 9d, 1/-, 1/3, 1/6 yard. TRanckeiWts HEMMED TWILL SHEETS are a speciality, and are all reduced for Sale. SHEETS, slightly soiled, single, three-quarter and double. Reduced 20 per cent. PILLOW CASES. 4 for 2/6. Better qualities. lOd. 1/-, 1/3 each. DOUBLE BED JASPE BEDSPREADS. 6/11. Sale 4/11. TEA TOWELS. Bd. 9d, I/-, 1/3. 1/6 each. ART. SILK TABLECLOTHS, fast colours. 1/9, 1/11, 2/11. SCHOOL HANDKERCHIEFS. 18 for 1/-, 6 for 1/-, 4 for 1/-. SCHOOL PANAMAS. 1/11, 2/11, 3/11. NAVY ALL WOOL SERGE SCHOOL TUNICS. 12/6, 14/11, 16/11, 19/6, 23/11, 26/11. WHITE SCHOOL BLOUSES, all sizes. 2/6, 4/6' 4/11, 5/6. COLLEGE TIES. 2/6, 3/3. SCHOOL UMBRELLAS. Usually 6 6. Sale 4/11. SILK LOCKNIT BLOOMERS, aJI colours and Black. Sale 1/6. SAM GOUGH LIMITED

PARTING ADVICE: Conclusion Of By Baxter O’Neill. HO N. SEC., N.Z. SWIMMING ASSOCIATION. NO. 12. ONE of the major problem* that besets young swimmers id how to train. Let us dispose of the problem at once. Don’t train! I know there are lots of swimmers who will receive that advice with blank astonishment and wonder if lam serious. lam quite serious. Have nothing whatever to do with training. Lots and lots of rubbish is talked about training and lots of damage is done to promising swimmers in consequence. Forget that there is such a word as training and, in place of it, write up in big letters: “Practice.” It is practice that makes perfect. That applies to swimming as much as it applies to playing the piano. The impression is far too prevalent among swimmers 'that if they can only get tit enough they will be able to reduce their time by seconds. It is just a fallacy. Certainly, if you are fit- you will do better than if you arc not. But the fittest man in the world could not do well if his stroke was not right. So practise your strokes and forget all about the training. That will look after itself. If your stroke is faulty then all training will do for you will Ik? to enable you to make Hie maximum of use of it. But the maximum use of a bad stroke won’t make you a good swimmer. Tiler© are lots of swimmer* who imagine they arc doing good for themsehes bv sprinting up and down the baths a couple of times, taking a apell and repeating the process. on can't learn to ewim well that wav. Consider what a sprint entails a. minute of so of strenuous effort. Would you try to learn anything else by devoting a minute nr so °at a time to it? Of course you wouldn't. 1 hen why try to do it with swimSpiintiiig as a general policy of practice should l»e carefully avoided. H tends to confirm faults, not to eradicate them. A sprint in needed bow and again during practice a* a precaution again sluggish no**. But apart from that it is not only of no use—it is dangerous. Swimming is an art. the liner points of which are difficult to acquire. Only by long and careful practice can you hope In acquire them. "V ou will certainly nevet acquire them by dashing a .length of the hath a* fast as you ran. ° In your practice ewinis you should cover a distance of not leas than 500yds. T know lots of young swim--mors will say: ’•Rut T cannot *\vii4 500yds.” Well, cover whatever dis* tance you can do comfortably at Swimming Series - three-quarter pace. As soon aa you begin to get tired stop, for no good purpose will be served by struggling These practice swims should bo easy swims, but you should not loaf along. Vour mind should be fully occupied with what your arms and legs are doing. Keep an eye (figuratively, of course) on them all the time and make sure that no errors are creeping in. If you have a coach who can overlook your swimming and criticise it for you, so much the better. If not, get a club mate or an official of your club to watch your swimming. It does not matter whether you are a sprinter or a distance swimmer, you must practice over good distances if you want to get results. This is where so many New Zealand swimmers fail. T was astonished to learn from a prominent New Zealand lady sprint swimmer that for training (there* that terrible word again!) *he just sprinted JOOyds or so. I have l>eon wondering since how good the would be if she were to practise carefully over 500yd* or The cardinal rule for all swimming practice should he: Swim distances ami swim them slowly. Never ewim beyond the poiut at which you become tired, and never prolong the swim to the point where you become sluggish. A nprint may be usefully indulged in after the practice swim. Swim your 500yds (or whatever distance you find from experience suits you), re*t a while, and then have your sprint before you leave the bath. That will provide quite enough in the way of fast swimming even for the sprinter. You will find that, very largely, you will have to be your own guide in your progress to swimming efficiency. To only a few are coaches available. For‘the rest of us it is a matter of asking *omebody on the side of the bath to criticise our stroke. You will find that opinion* differ, that a host of critics will offer a host of conflicting criticisms. So you must decide for yourself which is the good advice and which is the bad. If you keep in mind the cardinal principles you should not go far wrong. These are: A perfectly straight body, with the trunk as ' fiat and as *till a* possible and th# arms and leg* doing their allotted tasks without offering more resistance to the water than bus to 1»# offered. Keep your head a* still a* possible. In swimming, as in many other walk# of life, the term “u*e your head" means uae what is in your heatL Don’t try to make a (Middle of your head. You will sea plenty of swimmers whose heads are thrown about so violently that it is a wonder their neck* st ami the at rain. This sort of tiling always rrwults in the body being moved about. al*o, and that is the end of all hope of speed. A parting word of advice to tha young swimmer: .loin a swimming club. And when you join the club don’t be shv of asking somebody to help you with your swimming. Tha officials of club* are alway* anxious to help the young people toward* proficiency, ami advice may be bad for the asking. In addition, you will find in the swimming club others who, like yourself, are striving to be good swimmers. It <s pleasanter and. easier to learn in company than lo strive alone. Hi m m HVO NEW ZEALAND SWIMMING STARS— Mi* Men. 'y- riSr -fit,l Crum*