SWIMMING NOTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 63, 9 March 1912, Page 5

SWIMMING NOTES.

(By Amphi Bios.) Tlic water i'n the baths got heated up considerably yesterday. Several of the Cup candidates engaged in trials over 75yds. They were all warm stuff. Hence the heating of the water. A really exciting race for* the Cup distance can bo looked for on Thursday next. its ■ Which naturally brings one do the matter of the afternoon carnival next Thursday. , Up to the' present date ith|G). club has hot had-’ a*'good opportunity of putting on a gootl prograimftoV Tlio evening carnival on March Ist was,favoured with extraordinary weather, and. was successful from every point of view, except that citizens were rather chary of t)\e forward purchase of tickets. This chariness may show signs of being in evidence on the present occasion, bnt there ;he no shadow cl justification for it. :■/v f . The carnival is being held to inaugurate a Bath Improvement Fund. For the benefit of non-swimmers—-it i's presumed that a man has proved himself to ho a man of, high intelligence if he has adopted swimming —it may he stated that the Bath Improvement Fund is designed for the improvement of the bath. The improvement in mind at present is the laying down of a belt- of concrete round the hath, to obviate the puddles which now result from the strenuous doings of the hot stuff in the hath.

This improvement will he <a boon to swimmers, and will ho hardly less appreciated hy spectators. Therefore, as the arithmetic hook says, it is to the interest of all citizens to huy tickets, and, of possible, be present also; for personal service will do more than all the money or goodwill the most avaricious could covert.

Wherefore, as, probably, the arithmetic book also states, there can bo no reasoned defence advanced why every citizen should not buy a ticket, as if the severaltimesaforementioncd citizen does not attend the carnival and receive the big measure of enjoyment which the Swimming Club Committee guarantee, he will have the consoling knowledge that he has put in a hot and heavy bit for the benefit of himself particularly and of the community generally. Atopowhich, as no gentlemanly or self-respecting, muchmoresotheless a S.D.H.S., artithmetic book would say it is to be well borne on mind that every shilling contributed has the weight of two,' as the money raised will be subsidised pound for pound by the Government. Ergo, as Mentally Afflicted would say, it is a duty of citizens to buy tickets. Q.E.D.