SWIMMING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17040, 23 December 1918, Page 9

SWIMMING.

SPORTS IN CHRISTCHURCH.

A garrison sports meeting will be held in Christchilrch in Febiuary, and it is hoped that the event will become un,annual one. The value of athletic gatherings in camps and depots has been proved by tho Now Zealand Expeditionary Forces' meetings, and it is hoped that every use will in future bo made of athletics to revive a keener interest in tho Territorials and Senior Cadets, and to awaken, outside the military life, a valuable spirit of keen and fei>altby competition between units. It is intended that the sports meeting shall include athletic sports and other attractions, and that the programme shall include not only garrison championship events for both Territorials and Cadets, but also events for Boy Scouts. All races will bo run under the rules of the New Zealand Amateur A'l'Mie Association. , , ' With the many hundreds of territorials and cadets in Auckland and tho excellent sports crounds possessed hy the city--Vic-toria Park and the Domain—there ii no doubt that a rimilar snorts carnival could easily bo held here. Last season several riulot and territorial comnani»« bad football teams entered in enmnotitions, and at present the Senior Cnde»«' Cricket. Association holds a prominent place in cricket circles.

NOTES AND COMMENTS. Tho Akarana Swimming Club intends hold ing a swimming carnival in the tepid bathi early next month. Two well-known Auckland swimmers. Cor Welaon and J. Enwright, suffered severe at tacks of influenza and it is improbable tha they will enter for any races next year. Leo Kronfeld. who was hurt during th< football season, will not swim this season. During a discussion at the annual meet ing of the council of tho New Zealand Ama tour Swimming Association at Christchurcl' recently as to whether the council should in a case whore a club could apparently no' pay affiliation fees, grant a remission of par or, the whole of tho fees. Mr. C. Atkinson Baid that too many of the clubs had been resting during tho war period, waiting foi their members to return from the Front. He was a member of two swimming clubii, and his exnorienco was that only about c per cent, of the swimmers who had gone tc the war showed any desire to take an activi interest in tho eport on return. Mr. Atkin son said that in tho list of distances foi which tho council granted records there were distances, such as 100 metres, which were never swum in New Zealand. Yet the firs' person who .swam such a distance in Now Zealand, no matter what the time, would be entitled to hold tho record for New Zoa land for that distance. In this way a men learner might hold a rocord. The New Zealand Swimming Associatior has decided not to hold any Now Zealanc championships until noxt year. The New Zealand Ladies' 100 yds Cham pionship will be included in events at the next Dominion junior championships. The New Zoaland championships for 191920 have been allocated to tho Otago centre, i and the Dominion junior championships to the Canterbury centre. Tho junior championship meeting will probably last over three days. " Tho Canterbury Centre, and every other centre in New Zealand, has every reason to be proud at tho manner in which swimmers havo responded to the call to the Colours." said Mr. Walter Johnson at a meeting of the Canterbury Centre oi the Canterbury Centre of the New Zealand Swimming Association ,in Christclmrch recently. Many chnmnion swimmers and many others who might have been champions. Mr. Johnson said, had corio to the front, and many had made the supreme sacrifice. No dmiM a roll of honour would he compiled of all the swimmers who had cone to the war, and he was sure that all centres would see to it that a fitting memorial would be erected to perpetuate the memory of swimmers TO ho hud given their lives in thft cauM of Empire.