AUSTRALIAN SWIMMERS.
LACK OF PROGRESS DEPLORED While the rest of the swimming world has been advancing by leaps a.nd bounds, Australia, once tie andispntsd champion, ha 3, with but, one exception, stood still in recent years, writes an Australian critic. That exception is, of course. Charlton, but taking an average right through the champion swimmers of to-day are not as good as they were IS years ago. Even the Australian star sprinters are not ahead of their predecessors', if one except Frank Doyle, who jook.i like being the best Australia has produced. But while her sprinters have not gono far ahead what can one say about her middle-distance nnd long-distance men ? In New South Wales ,sho had one fair exponent, Moss Christie, hut take him away and the rest are third-raters. Moss Christie and Grier alone in swimming today compare with such men as Reg. Healy, Cecil Healy, Harold Hard wick, Dick Cavill, Ross Garland, whila Billv Ixmgworth, Barney Xeiran and Frank Beau repairs were much superior to any jpf the present, swimmeni. >•
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19469, 27 October 1926, Page 18
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173AUSTRALIAN SWIMMERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19469, 27 October 1926, Page 18
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