SWIMMING
MORE RECORDS BROKEN TARIS AT HASTINGS , (Per Press Association.) HASTINGS this day. The third public appearance in New Zealand of the French champions, Jean Taris and Emile Poussard, occasioned a record attendance at a swimming carnival at Hastings last evening. Again Taris beat Bridson’s New Zealand quarter-mile record, his lime in. fresh, cold water being 5.4 2-5. tiie existing record being beaten by lOsre. Taris beat bis Hamilton time by 11 3-5 seconds, only 5 l-ssoe. slower than his sensational effort in the tepid salt water at Auckland. In the 220yds, Taris beat Crump’s New Zealand record by 1 3-ssec.. dome the distance in 2.21. In both events, Watkins (Hastings., the New Zealand mile champion, and Lindsay (Dannevirke), the New Zealand mile and half-mile records holder, were easily beaten by the Frenchman. The Hastings man shaded Lindsay in each event, doing the. 440yds in 5.27, to lower Ibe Hawke’s Bay provincial record by 12see. Poussard provided a magnificent 15 minutes’ exhibition of diving.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18650, 9 March 1935, Page 7
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