SWIMMING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14223, 20 November 1909, Page 9

SWIMMING.

The lOOvds provincial amateur swimming championship .of Auckland will bo ':, decidedat the second gala of tho Waitemata: Swimming Club on December 17. The race will bo held in < tho Albert-street / baths. The standard time has been altered from 655. to 65=i. The Waitemata Club officials are taking precautions to have the conditions or the race such that any competitor covering the distance inside the standard timo will get full credit. The Waitemata Club having experienced: considerable difficulty in securing a handicapper and starter, Mr. Mulvihill has been reluctantly compelled to tako up the duties again. ■' ~ The committee of the Waitemata Club has decided to restrict members to one club. There are only two active clubs in Auckland this season- . - . . Some particulars of the new _ swimming baths at Nattier should prove interesting. The swimming pool is 100 ft by 50ft, and the depth recedes from 10ft to 3ft. The water is continually passing through, the capacity of the pool being a-quarter million gallons, which has an approximate weight of 1000 tons. The overflow is turned into the sewers of the city. The East Christchureb Club has secured! a swimmer whose presence would be a gain to any club in W. J. Dennismore, late of Victoria. He competed recently in the East Christchurch Club's handicap of 52yds, and covered the distance in a tick under 30s. He was the champion diver of the State, and a member of the crack water nolo team.. • '■ '■'~ '< >■'*• " Mr. J. W. Symcs, a prominent swimmer from Christchurch, was in town last .weekend. He is also prominent in Christchurch hockev circles, being treasurer of the New Zealand Hockey Referees' Association. Mr. Symes left on Monday afternoon for the

Thames. ' ■ - \ • . ■ ■ ' Swimmers will bo provided with plenty of snort this year. The Ponsonby Swimming Club start their season's heavy programme on December 10 with a gala in tho Albert-street baths. ; The Ponsonby Club has decided to cxtend their efforts towards forming a ladies' club, to be run. in conjunction with the Ponsonby Swimming Club. Several ladies' clubs have been formed and prospered for one season, but they all seem to fall : through after the first year's .; operations. _• A deputation from the Ponsonby Regatta Committee waited on the committee of -the Ponsonby Swimming Club on Wednesday evening, and made a request that^iho] Ponsonby Club's committee should assist them; in the side show events- The club decided to assist the Ponsonby Regatta Committee. Mr. J. J. Mulvihill, secretary f of the Auckland centre of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association, received a teleeram last evening, stating that the council meeting, which was to be held in ' Christchurch last evening, was postponed until next Thursday. It was anticipated that tho' place at which the next New Zealand cham-; monships would be held would be decided last evening. Another matter of local interest was the fact ■ that the question of the reinstatement of Gibbons, of Auckland, was also to be discussed. • . Frank Beaurepaire, the Australasian champion, in a training swim a few days ago, covered the quarter-mile in smin. 30 2-ssec. In view of the fact that Victoria holds the Kieran Memorial Shield, and much depends on the success of Beaurepaire in the forthcoming Australian championships whether.; Victoria retains it, the form already shown by Beaurepaire is extremely gratifying to Victorians. • -..-■- ■.■--■ .