SWIMMING.
A swimming carnival, held under the auspices of the Ladies' Amateur Swimming Club on Saturday night, attracted a satisfactory number of spectators to the Municipal Baths. The carnival, which was a. curtain-raiser to the opening of the season in six or seven weeks' time, was organised to promote interest in swimming in the city, the prizes taking the form of season tickets for admission to the ffatlis. The ladies deserve credit for their efforts to popularise this useful art. After the last race, Mr O'lds, whose figure outlined by a number of small electric bulbs, 'gave an exhibition- of fancy swimming and diving in the darkness, the spectators appiauding his effective and novel conclusion to the night's amusement. A WORLD'S EECOBD. LONDON, September 8. Kahanomoku (the Hawaiian champion) won the 100 yards swim at Exeter in 55 2-sseo. Norman Boss won the 300 yards in 20-1 -l-osec a world's record. September 10. Steclmnn won the amateur swimming championship of England in 58 seconds at Weston-Supcr-Mare, defeating Vanschells (Belgium) and leadin" British swimmers. ABOBTIVE ATTmr-pT to swim ENGLISH CHANNEL. LONDON, September 9. Sullivan failed in his second attempt to swim tho Channel, covering 34 miles and reaching within two miles and a-half of France after having been 18 hourß in tho water. Ho suffered from abdominal pains for 12 hours.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3470, 14 September 1920, Page 38
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