SWIMMING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 22, 9 January 1912, Page 6

SWIMMING.

H. Taylor, the brilliant English disnnce swimmer, seems to have had cry bad luck indeed in his record idle swim, which has been the cause d' so much discussion. The present world’s figures are to the credit of T. 1. Battersby at 21 min 1 2-ssec, whilst Taylor did 23min 85\sec in the mile hampionship. After the race the listance was found to be short, and t now transpires that, owing to the •roction of a starting board and tuning boards the first-lap-was only 327 t. o-jin., and the other , laps, 323 ft. ”iri.,T Hfisteafl »of fall; tioing-d3Soft‘. Therefore Taylor.l-swam.. lift. Sin. ••liort, lint the performance was, such i meritorious oniY'tlnit ■ the English I.S.A. has determined to make a mte of it in the record book, although t cannot be ,passed as a record. Unloubtedly the..record would have been noken by a fair margin, and Taylor, liretigh ■ no fault-of his : own,” is vob:cd of the honour. The course pursued by the A.S.A. was also adopt'd in the case of 11. Cavill, who swam 00yds in 58 in ~19,02, heating he then, existing,{figures held by F. I Y;’- Lane of •59, 1 8-ssec. f ., Qavill ,put i)i the ;.perforni;)hc.<? pin .. a handicap, .vhieji, precluded ijhe feat , being .re-, ■ognised,, so it was/noted only at the lottom of the,,official list, until beaten ),y C. M. Daniels, who now holds the ■ceord.. Of the other English reords passed /luring the year five are iy ladies, and all those are world’s lost. Miss Daisy Curwen did 100yds n Imin 12 3-ssec, 100 metres in Irnin II 3-sscc, and 300yds in 4min 31 1-5 icc, whilst Miss Vera Neave did 300 n-etres in -Imin 56 l-ssoc. T. S. Battersby also put up new 400 metres igures of smin 35 4-ssec.