SWIMMING.
DUKE KAHANAMOKU. [BY TELECIUPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WANGANUI. Wednesday. An Amerioan who is touring the Dominion declares that Duke. P. Kahanamoku. the wf>rld-famous Hawaiian swimmer, haa forfeited his amateur status in view of the fact that he has signed up a contract with the moving pictures. The International federation, ho said, refused to allow swimmers to take up moving picture work and retain their amateur status, and so Duke Kahanamoku, having dtcided to be filmed for pecuniary gain, haa gone out of tho amateur swimming world. America is not pwturbed, as it claims to have & greater swimmer than Kahanamoku in a lad named Weismuuex.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18081, 4 May 1922, Page 9
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103SWIMMING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18081, 4 May 1922, Page 9
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