SWIMMING.

New Zealand Times, Volume LV, Issue 2043, 28 October 1893, Page 5 (Supplement)

SWIMMING.

, t (FEOM OUE OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ' London, September 18. | Of I H. Tyers and Kis swimming sue- 1 cesses there 'is no end. On Saturday he placed the 1000 yards Salt Water Championship to his credit, to making the j ninth championship m his keepm 0 . As usual the Manchester wonder won with ridiculous ease, hut be it said from a wery . noor field. Tver’s prowess has the effect of keeping many first-class men out of the water on these championship occasions . and as a consequenee the opposition ou - Saturday was confined to Mr J. L. Mor ton, of Sunderland, and Mr McDonald,nf the same town, in the sea- off which place the race took place. The course was 000 yards alongside Boke s Pier and though the weather was showery, the sea, was as calm as a millpond From the plunge the three rose inline but after 6 01 f> . strokes McDonald was left well m the rear, and so for as the race was concerned he was ‘ never in it.’ Norton kep corapany with - the crack, for about a hundred yards and then dropped back m spile of ’ his-big efforts. ■ At quarter distance Tyers was a dozen yards to the good and thou h hot exerting himself' increased this to thirty yards by the time the turning buoy was reached. Prom this point ho ManChester swimmer simply paddled and finally reached the post fifty yards in front of J. Morton in 16mm iSisec. McDonald

swam home some two hundred and -fifty yards behind. Of new cycling and swimming records there appear to be no end. Almost every week new times are registered in one or other of these two branches of athletics, Saturday generally being the ‘ red letter ’ day. A performance worthy of note was accomplished by‘Joey’ Nuttal, the Stoic.' ■ bridge swimmer, on Saturday afternoon last at Boyton’s Water Show at Aarls Court, when the English champion put up a hew record for the open water half-mile and showed how greatly superior he is to the best of our professional talent. The trophy at stake was a gold medal value L2O and also, the promoters advertised, the Championship o r the World. For the raoe a first-class e.Bry was secured. Besides Nuttall, thre> ex-amateur champions, Greasly, Evans, and Standring, put in an appearance and also two leaser lights in Durell and piplock. A course of 110 yards was narked- out in the lake, the swimmers parting from a position and touching aid turning at a pole at the other end. Theraee needs but brief description for kuttol took the lead after going twenty yards apt at the first turn was quite five yards inead of Greasly, who in turn had a bod'’s length the best of Evans and Standing, From this point the Stoleybrid/e man gradually drew away and Greyly MB Standring and Evans well in the rear. At the half distance (time g*9J) Nuttall was fully twenty yards to |, B good and continuing to swim in grand ; onn finally romped home in 12min 7iseo.

Greasley’a time was l2min 83sec, Evans 13min 351 sec, and Standring’s 13min 45 jsoai Nuttall thus beat his own record of ISmin 29.|sec for the half-mile, which he made in his mile match with Me Cusker. ' ,