CANTERBURY piles up points IN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 260, 24 January 1928, Page 11

CANTERBURY piles up points IN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

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Bu Telegraph. — Special to THE SUN.

DUNEDIN, Monday. Auckland and Canterbury are fight- * f ar possession of the Yaldhurst ’"Lid the championship trophy of the Sminion at the carnivals being held refk- The Southern province esJSished a good lead this evening at .-*r jeco nd carnival, scoring points suf-;”T-nt to bring its total to 25, compared Ijrt Auckland’s 12 and Otago's 11. Jj the distance races, Canterbury has strong team and most bathsiders a teked Ijindsay and Stokes to be first lad second In each race. Just whether tjskes was fast enough to stand up Jssinst Pelham, the ex-Aucklander, «ho is a member of the Wellington rusin. w as the only doubtful point with ,hs less optimistic. Enwright (AuckInd) and A. T. Bolam (Canterbury), who dead-heated for third place in a hsaf tossed for third place, and the Aucklander won. * Claridge and Lindsay slipped over the first length in 175., and when they fsached the starting end, the Wellington sprinter was three yards ahead of XJndsay, but Canterbury’s crack completed the hundred in 82 2-ss, with Olnridge on terms. The rest of the lield were close together, but Stokes asserted himself and moved up. Stokes nf a a definite lead, and when the ''oßyds mark was reached by Lindsay tb* watches showed 2.20 1-5. Claridge tired badly, and Pelham, swimming strongly, got up and scored a point for Wellington. Stokes finished In 2.38 f.J. Neither Lindsay nor Stokes did lime as fast as both swimmers registered in Canterbury. JUNIOR AND INTERMEDIATE EVENTS In the junior breaststroke, Otago won and J. Hunter and J. McDonald filled the place*. The winner clipped five seconds oft his heat time in the final. Provincial interest was well spread in the contest for the boys’ Intermediate 440yds. All the centres competing with the exception of Hawke’s Bay, had a representative in the final. Palmer I Wellington) and Brownlee (Auckland) set out to make the pace, and they slipped over the first hundred in 71s, I and and In the second they clocked At this stage. Palmer and Brownies were swimming well In the lead but (lowan (Wanganui) came up, anil at 308 yards he was leading. The pace wss a cracker, as nine lengths were .overed In 4.2 4-5. Gowan finished in (i.l 4-5, and Palmer in 6.11 3-5 yj,* Auckland boy did 6.17 2-5. They were good performances, and the first two beat the record. MISS CHAMPION BEATEN Miss Edna Champion came to Dunedin with her team expecting much of her, but in a race with Misa A. Stratton (Wanganui) she met a better swimmer. Miss Stratton jumped over

enough water to give her a lead of three ya tmf;hf nd , thla she increased to *Mh S 5° r the flrst len eth in tbe next ‘urn, there was little ensued” The' a din S-don S fight touched in h 7 e 2s. 8 f resh water record, which “™ediate days and back in her in ‘ ti.? ar nost h m 6 swimmers gone to xne post in better fettle than L J a "d L. Fairfrained <«?£>*. £S?&Te»t 3 turned “tS tor ?r t y he W h a u 8 nt th a e t chamnT backst roke swimmer mP t° nship even t. During the l n front eri #ut I 'th lOOr n° USe sot his head flrst it w» b « M h ?. changed about, and nrst it was Moorhouse and then SS? n a T n f ° u therner"touc(hed of the meeting 0116 ° f the beß ‘ SPEEDY OTAGO GIRL Another good race was the 220 vds fin a^h P *°was Pf T women - N «>t that the nnish was close, for Miss Miller hackf 0) She lik> i, a Dese '’t Gold among i„ aCk • 6,he slipped over the first length in 19s, and soon opened up a big lead from Miss Slmmonds (Hawke’s When 100 v M rt 8 s H a°£ kley (Auckland). Grant had been covered. Miss the other Aucklander, put in a fer aU mS s? d u b , eat ail but M P ss MIL ier. Miss Stockley was done lontr be*?re yards were covered and son wse h fl d . backstr °king. Mlss'jep?e°a n ch W lbe but cod > d not plucky swimming at Auckland a yelr ago, won the 50yds girls’ breaststroke in-fencing style. She swam correct record ' bUt was outside the Detailed Results:

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lotermediate Girls. Miss A Stratton (Wanganui), 1; Miss B Cham' Plot! (Auckland), 2. Time, 72s cnam J. 'fZ a rlZ^' 3 ( Can t erbu ry ), C *IL "^aii^* Srbu^)" C 3.' an Tlme 2 , ; Fra ?6 s “ ay -Mte d K L M!"’r N ;W, C ll am (oCo/,T k 2m 5?‘ fSS M ‘ JePS ™

DELEGATES CONFER 1929 CHAMPIONSHIP VENUE WELLINGTON’S TURN Press Association. DUNEDIN, To-day. A conference of centres of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Associaioon was held yesterday, Mr. W. Bishop, president of the Dominion Council, in the chair. The New Zealand National Championships for 1929 were allotted to Wellington, a remit from Canterbury also being carried that the New Zealand championships be held in February instead of January as at present. A remit from Canterbury that a registration fee of Is for each senior declared member be paid proportionately, 50 per cent, to the council and 50 per cent, to the contributing centre, was lost. A further remit from Hawke’s Bay, that registration fees be abolished, was also lost. A motion was carried that the council suggest to the centres the desirability of arranging deputations to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Education asking them to make swimming cumpulsory in the schools where facilities exist. A suggestion to the council was also carried that a women’s back-stroke event be included in the national championship programme.