SWIMMING.
THE EDEN CLUB. The Eden Amateur Swimming Club has Iwen granted the use of tho municipal baths on Tuesday evenings for the purpose of holding club nights. The club will be •pleased to aoe members of other clubs present on v these occasions. ' Commenting upon swimming in Enrloi.d tfunng the season of 1911, the Field (Undo «ay 3- A i? important, feature of the season has been the increased number of swimmers that have come within roach of one minute for lOOvds Shty-two and sixty-throo jpeconds has become a more or loss common experience in most races that now take X™, oyer the distance This advance is duo to • the adoption of the crawl stroke, and the •-first swimmer who really perfects that stroke . Twill assuredly approach the wonderful record ■•«* up by C. M. Daniels, of New V™i, • W -65 2-Ss. But. in order to d?°4h'a •serums study of rfc » imperative. It h" m * .(phcity itself: but apart from the neclssitv of getting everv. ounce out of +»,!.< y . ~ «tr4es, it is stall more important timing of the l egß *S • • ths of 8 ««"W* haVA to bo masvmEL« - r P r opcr attunement to the ,' • &£ 0i ' MC individual make fir success. They cannot be disregarded.'' ''' • '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14933, 5 March 1912, Page 10
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