OPEN WATER SWIM

Taranaki Daily News, 8 January 1927, Page 15

OPEN WATER SWIM

FLANNAGAN CUP CONTEST. HANDICAPS FOR TO-MORROW. Three girls and eight men have entered for the annual open water swim for the Flannagan Cup to be held in the New Plymouth harbour to-morrow morning. The course this year is triangular in shape and the competitors, will start and finish from a punt moored off the Newton King wharf. Buoys will mark the limits and the course will have to be swum twice to complete the distance. The advantages of the new location are that the swimmers will always be well inside the breakwater and there will therefore be less risk in the venture and, secondly, that spectators will be able to follow the whole race from the wharf. If the water remains as calm and as placid as has been the case during the past few days, the conditions will be ideal. The race is scheduled to start at 10.30, but competitors are requested to be at the starting point at 10.15 in order to be present when the rules for the race are being read.

Handicaps have been declared as follow: W. Penman (scr.), C. Plumtree (3min.), W. Twoomey (smin), W. Remmington (smin), E. Coleman (smin.), J. Law (7Jmin), G. Gayton (9min), D. G. Sutherland (9min), Miss M. Hunter (171 min Miss B. Coleman (19min), Miss C. Hunter (18min).