OVERSEAS SPORT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20969, 4 September 1931, Page 9

OVERSEAS SPORT.

LONG-DISTANCE SWIM. YOUNC WINS AT TORONTO. (Received September 8, 5.5 p.m.) TORONTO. Sept. 8. George Young (Toronto) to-day won the 15-miles swimming race at the Canadian National Exhibition. There were 180 competitors. His time was 8h Bm. There were 100,000 spectators. The first prize is £2OOO. Young won after » long succession of failures, following his winning the 26miles race at Catalina in 1927. The water registered 58 degrees, and only six swimmers were left in when Young finished. Bill Coll (New York) was second, about a mile behind Young, and Warren Anderson (Nova Scotia), third. Young Coll and Anderson were the only ones to complete the distance. With less than a mile to go Ernst Vierkoetter (Toronto) was taken from the water.

The Canadian National long-distance swimming race in 1927, of 21 miles, across Lake Ontario, was won by Ernst Vierkoetter, then of Germany, who swam the English Channel in 1926. His time was llh 42m 12s. George Young gave up, exhausted. Only three finished. In the 15-miles swim for the Wrigley prizes, the first race in 1928 resulted in no one's completing the course, owing to the cold. Vierkoetter and Young gave up. Young won the prize of £SOOO offered by Mr. W. Wrigley, of Chicago, to the first person who swam the Catalina Channel, California, about 21 miles. Young was the only one of the lt>3 starters to finish. He was then, January, 1927, only 17 years old.

LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA. INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT. NEW YORK, Sept. 2. At the national lawn tennis tournament at Brookline, in the final of the men's doubles, Allison and Van Ryn defeated Mangin and Bell, 6—4, B—6, 6—3. In the international lawn tennis tournament at Philadelphia Perry (England) defeated Andre Merrin (France), 6—l, 7 —5; Marcel Bernard (France) defeated Doeg, 6—2, 6—4. In the doubles Boussus and Brugnon (France) defeated Doeg and Lott, 9—7, 6—3. FOOTBALL IN BRITAIN. ASSOCIATION LEAGUE RESULTS. LONDON. Sept. 2. At Association football to-day in the English League, First Division, Birmingham beat Newcastle United, 4—l; Derby beat Manchester City, 2—l; Liverpool drew with Bolton Wanderers, 2—2; Portsmouth lost to Everton, o—3; Sunderland beat West Bromwich Albiop, 2 —l. In the Second Division Bristol City beat Notts County, 3—2; Manchester United lost to Southampton, 2—3. In the Third Division Southern Section Exeter lost to Fulham, o—3; Gillingham drew with Reading, 1—1; Swindon beat Watford, 4—l; Torquay United drew with Bournemouth, I—l. In the Northern Section Accrington Stanley beat Carlisle United, 5—3; Darlington lost to Barrow, o—2;0 —2; Wigan Borough beat Hull City, 3—l; Wrexham drew with Chesterfield, 1 —1; York City lost to Southport, I—2. In the Scottish League, Aberdeen beat Leith Athletic, 1-^-0; Dundee drew with Ayr United, 2—2; Falkirk lost to Rangers, I—2; Kilmarnock beat Morton, 1—0; Partick Thistle beat Cowdenbeath, s—l; Third Lanark drew with Celtic, 3—3. In the Second Division Albion Rovers lost to King's Park, o—3; Hibernians beat Dunfermline, 6 —2; Montrose lost to St. Johnstone, 2—3. Under Northern Union rules St. Helens lost to Broughton, 4—ll.