SWIMMING TOURNAMENT.
The eighth annual swimming tournament, in connection! with the Albany street School was held at the Logan's Point Baths yesterday afternoon. Thero was a fair attendance, and the weather beiDg delightful the affair passed off with gre-ifc success. Messrs Barnett, Eggers, and Summerell, " members -of .the school' committee, and Mr Ferguson, the head master, were present; and the arrangements in connection with the tournament were admirably carried out by Messrs Thomson, M'Nickle, and Spence. A number of novel eve'uls wefeintroduced, the principal ones being a Royal Mail Race, which proved very exciting, and the Corfa Dive. In the latter the competitors dived ioto the water and came up through a buoy. The. following are the results :— 50 Yards under 11).— R. Thomson, / scr, 1; G. Foote,i3sec, 2. J. Larnach ssec also competed. £0 Yards (boys under 13).-Firsfc Heat: H.J. Broad, ssec,l; J. Donald, scr, 2. Two others started. Second Heat: P. M'Neil), Ssec, I; R. Doekery, .cratch, 2. Four others started. Final: Doekery 1, Broad 2. - 100 Yards (boys under 13).—8. T. Moller, scratch,. 1; R. J. Watts, lOsec, 2. , J Three others started. UJ.DER-WATER SwijLMi,\G(under 13).—J.Donald 1, J.'Coulter.-.. Tbree others competed. Under-water Swimming (over 13).— F. Maitland and A.Meyer dead heat, C. Jones 2. Two others competed. ' • / . " Neat Header.—J. Coulter 1, F. Maitland 2. Five others competed. Plate Diving (under 13),— J. Coulter, three plates, I. Five others competed. Plate Diving (over 13).— F. Maitland, seven plates, 1; A. , Meyer, five plates, 2. .H. T. Broad, five plates, also competed. Fifty Yards (ou b..ck..-C. Jones, .sec, 1; A. t Cameron, ser, 2. No others started,' i Corfu Dive.—J.' M'Donald 1. Two others competed. Royal Mail Race.—Three teams competed, the winning tea-^u being R. Henderson, Watts, W. Henderson, nud L. Donald. Tug-oi'-War.—Four teams competed, . the winning team being L. Donald, Broad, R,. Henderson, and Watts. , J Bi.indi.old Rack (50yds).—R. J. Watts -1, H. \Villiam-.nn 2. 1. '!'. Moller.also started. : Duck Hunt.—T. Boltouj succeeded in capturing the.duck, five others taking part in the chase. .Girls' Rack (sOyds).—Lillie Stevenson, scr, 1; Nellie Moller 2, J£die Shaw 3.' 00yds (under 14).—M'Intosh -T," Doekery 2, Coulter Ji. - 'dtlOi-os (for ex-pupils).—Rice, scr, 1; Moller,' scr, 2, J. Also started: Moir SOsec and Kellan .30oec. ' A good race; won by about three yards.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 10307, 14 March 1895, Page 4
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