SWIMMER TO RETIRE
MISS E. DE LACY'S DECISION Miss Evelyn de Lacy, 20-years-old Western Australian Olympic swimmer, who has swum in championship events for the last four years, has announced that she will relinquish competitive swimming after the liritish Empire Games and will not take part in the Olympic Games in Tokio in .194 CL The reason for this decision % that Miss de Lacy feels she not could stand the strain of two years' continuous training, as would, bo necessary. She said she has swum 80 miles of training already this season and feels that she is entitled to enjoy a few years of her remaining girlhood without being bound down by the demands of her training, which nave prevailed with her since she was 15 years of age.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22946, 26 January 1938, Page 20
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