OVERSEAS SPORT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18887, 9 December 1924, Page 9

OVERSEAS SPORT.

LADIES' SWIMMING RACE. N.S. WALES CHAMPIONSHIP. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Recti. 6.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, Doc. 8. The ladies' lGOvds. breast stroke swimming championship of New South Wales was won by Miss Josie Sheldon. Her time was lm. 28 l-ss. ARNE BORG'S FAST SWIM. I I FIVE HUNDRED METRES RECORD. (■Received 8.5 p.m.) Router. STOCKHOLM. Dec. 8. | Arne Borg claims a world's record for | swimming 500 metres, free style, in 6m. i 29 3-ss. i CRICKET IN SOUTH AFRICA. i ENGLISHMEN V. RHODESIANS. Australian acd N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) CAPETOWN', Dec. 7. j In 6 match against Rhodesia, at Bulu- j wayo, tho visiting English cricket eleven, in their first innings made 294 runs {Bow- I ley 131 and Jameson 90). Rhodesia lost eight, wickets for 318. NICE TENNIS TOURNAMENT, MDLLE. LENGLEN SCRATCHED. Australian and N.Z. Cable IXssociation. (Reed. 7.5 p.m.) PARIS, Dec. 6. j Mdlle! Suzanne Lenglen, the French tennis player, has been unexpectedly scratched for the Nice lawu tennis tournament which opens morrow. CYCLING IN AMERICA. I RESULT OF SIX DAYS' RACE. A.' and N.Z. NEW YORK. Dec. 7. Reggie McNamara (Australia) and Pott, van Kempen (Holland) won the annual six-day bicycle race. They gained an immense number of sprint points in the final hour..