SWIMMING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16042, 1 February 1923, Page 8

SWIMMING.

(Per Press Association.) TIMARU, last, night. The third session of the swimming championships was held to-night before a. large attendance. The' championship results are' as follows:

220 yards breaststroke: F. Boulton (Wanganui) 1, C. Atkinson (Canterbury) 2, A. Claridge (Wellington) 3. Won by a yard. Time, 3.19. 100 yards intermediate, girls: P. Page (Auckland) holder, 1, E. Wnlrond 2, E. Stocklev 3. Time, 1.1 l 3-5.

440 yards, ladies: (!. Sliand (Canlerbury) 1, V. Waldrond (Auckland) 2, P. Hoeffc (Auckland) 3. . Won bv 211. Time, 6.29 2-5. 100 yards breast-stroke intermediate, boys: C,\ Herd (Canterbury) 1. C. C. Claridge (Wellington) holder, 2, G. Evatt (Wellington) 3. Time, 78 1-5, Herd established a record in his heat, doing the distance in 77 4-5.

100 yards junior gil ls: T). Magee (Auckland) 1, L. C'opnerstonc (Canterbury) 2, M. Jopson (Olago) 3. Time, 1.23 4-5. 440 yards junior boys: 11. Bridson (Wellington) 1, E. Ryland (Wanganui) 2. W. Cameron (Canterbury) 3. Time, 7.13 1-5.

880 yards senior: L. Hill (Canterbury) 1, D. Murrell (Wellington) 2. N. X. Batchelor (Canterbury) holder, 3. Time, 12.31 2-5. In the final of the polo championship Canterbury heat Wellington by six goals to nil. [The 100yds, boys breast-stroke record was put up by A. Claridge at Wellington, last, year, the distance beingooovered in 80 3-ssec.l