SWIMMING
CARNIVAL TO-MORROW. NIGHT
W. Fleming (Queensland) and A. O'Connor (New South Wales), with Australia's foremost swimming authority and coach (Mr Dudley Hellmrich); will appear at the Dunedin Municipal Baths to-morrow night at the.' Otago Centre's gala carnival. Fleming is the Australian 110 yards and '220 yards freestyle champion and 220 yards record holder, and he will ' appear in special invitation freestyle and backstroke races In the 100 yards, invitation scratch race Fleming will have the opposition of some of New Zealand's finest freestyle exponents; including W. J. Jarvis (ex-New;Zealand 100 yards and 220 yards champion and present Victorian title-holder for 100 yards at 54sec), D. H. Symes (New Zealand 220 yards champion), E. Toase, and J. W. Clulee. The 100 Yards In* vitation Short-limit Backstroke Handicap will be just as attractive a race, since two of Australia and New Zealand's best backstroke exponents in P. E. Mathieson (holder of New Zealand and Australian records) and W. Fleming will be pitted against, each other, and the field will also include Jarvis, Thomas, Kerr, and Leckie.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23045, 23 November 1936, Page 12
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