BACKSTROKE DISTANCES
NEW RECORDS CLAIMED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association BUIFALO, January 24. Three of the world record* held by Johnny Weismuller were broken on Saturday night. Walter Laufer (Cincinnati) clipped two-fifths of a second off the lOD.vds backstroke, which he mvaui in lmin 4 2-,‘>sec. Without stopping, ho went over the KMJ-metros course in lmin 11 l-ssee, compared with Weismuller's lmin 12 3-ssec Walter Spence (Brooklyn) swam KMlvdu breaststroke in lmin 15 2-iscc, osfab* Ushinc a now record by a full serorul.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12354, 26 January 1926, Page 10
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83BACKSTROKE DISTANCES New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12354, 26 January 1926, Page 10
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