WOMEN SWIMMERS

Southland Times, Issue 23682, 3 December 1938, Page 11

WOMEN SWIMMERS

TEAM TO TOUR IN NEW ZEALAND

MISS JOYCE MACDONALD INCLUDED (United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, December 2. What is described as the finest team of women swimmers ever assembled in New Zealand has been selected by the Council of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association to make an educational tour of the Dominion in the forthcoming season. The team is as follows: Mrs E. C. Isaac (Dunedin), a former New Zealand diving champion, as manager; Miss Mona Leydon (Auckland), freestyle champion and recordholder and Empire Games swimmer; Miss Kathleen Grey (Auckland), intermediate champion and recordholder; Miss Winnie Dunn (Dunedin), breaststroke champion and recordholder, and Empire Games swimmer; Miss Joyce Macdonald (Invercargill), backstroke champion and record-holder and an Empire Games swimmer.

The team will start its tour as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made and it is proposed that the tour will continue throughout the entire swimming season, terminating probably about the end of March. All parts of New Zealand will be visited. The principal purpose of the tour is to teach swimming to school children and it will form an important part of the campaign, which is being undertaken this summer for the teaching of 70,000 persons to swim.

LIFE-SAVING TEAMS OTAGO CHAMPIONSHIPS Southland will be strongly represented at the Otego life-saving championships at St. Clair beach on December 18. A practice will be held at Oreti beach at 10.30 a.m. tomorrow.

The following teams have been selected for the Otago championships:— SENIOR SIX-MAN TEAM.—E. Gumbley (captain), K. Shaw, F. Springford, D. Davis, A. Marshall, A. Brown, R. Blue, R. Glennie. JUNIOR SIX-MAN TEAM.—W. Williams, J. Cameron, R. Duthie, M. Jenkin, I. Mitchell, J. Cockerill, H. Bath, A. Mair, P. Rowley, O. Davis (captain). HOPE CUP, FOUR-MAN TEAMS.— J. Cameron, D. Davis, I. Mitchell and O. Davis; K. Shaw, F. Springford, A. Marshall and E. Gumbley; A. Brown, R. Duthie, W. Williams and R. Blue. SENIOR SURF RACE.—K. Shaw, F. Springford, D. Davis, A. Marshall, A. Brown, R. Glennie. JUNIOR SURF RACE.—W. Williams, J. Cameron, R. Duthie, I. Mitchell, M. Jenkin, J. Cockerill.