SWIMMING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14658, 27 January 1912, Page 4 (Supplement)

SWIMMING.

j (By Crawl).

. Sinco- the last issstio of Uic-o notes .onu of tho priueip-al ormis during tho seuaou h;u boon ijrouiht Uwt uu.y to a Bii.-cessiul but also to a tuittnojal finish. This event, tiio T.H.V bwininnug Carnival, was Held ou Tuosoay 23rd, and all tho races ivero Jjeeuly wmpeted. Tho 00 yards Int»r-Clu3 resulted in close finishes in the beats arid in the final. A. Rhodes, a hi" powerful swimmer who has a vvi v s-ow Jtroke, and ono by which it is h'i-d to teJl ..whether he is doing his biAt or taking- it easily, proved tho winner in a&sees. T. Davy, who swam second in'this rate, deserves every ereEt for the way in which he swam. llus Mnmmer haa a slow, poworril Eiioke and 10 about tho only Timaru swim%r. with the proper Australian trtidWpn stroke. Ho was ask-d by a Otmpb-of swimmers why he did rot MSB.:. buck in the 25 yards on the S? j to '"' hic E puestion Davy rojpJad, "I do not believe in •mmnung below tho boards. I swim «>r the sport, and if I win, I ivia 0.1 icy. merits and not in an md-Tband }',?!:•" Sucli c<mduct should lie a i*6Bon to some Timaru swimmers, .-.nd silUwould do well in <-opviii"- the metto of T. Davy. L. Eaton, H. Leech, and J. Hullon also swam well in the same race. Lecjh, with some traiii : ng and will bo up with tho eeU of them. ..The natatorial high jump tus vfn wV who cleared 7ft 3iu. -Ijns win was not vei-y popular, »aost of,the spectators and swimmers Icing M;the opinion tlmt it should have ■been won by J. Dalgleish, wjiomtrarlc was decidedly the neater o: the two. _>, Th« Bpringbpard diving resulted in Seen competition, and was won W M. ODpnoghue. H. Goodwin and' E. BrosnahSm dived remarkably w.vil, n, A Mi.-the dive off for second p'.a:e H. Gopdwin abfcained a verdict by a uor-n»tr-..margin of points. .-;The Belay race was one of Ihe lost •Tenta of the evening. All the heats, «*P««dly the final, were won .-.iter hard struggles. Tn the last iifty t:it-js of iho. final, A Rhodes got away idxinc. two.seobndß before J. Nicholls an.l M. O/Itonoghuo, and it was act intil about ten yards from homo that O Donoghue came away from ihe ether .two, ond won by about a yard, w.th J; Nicholls second. J. Dnfgleish,' 11. Leeah, W. Holdgate and 51. O'EoJHtgbue, members of the T.A.S.C. were the. winning team, and along with Ihe •econd team, were scratch in -lie ra-o -.The. display by the Ohristchurch tw&mlers was appreciated bv all. -,On Wednesday, the T.A.S.C. held tiie first of their evening faces, nbect 12 »wimmerß competing in :ho Wd.or r)nce: and fire in the junior. ;h<? final resulted in a win for AA T . Hoklg.ite, ijith L. Eaton, a few inches behind, second. The junior was wan by E. Sudd, with N. fiadcliffe secoud. "E.'.-l-oiiffe and Lawry, both very jUniora, swam remarkably w"elf, and promise to be a good help for 'ihe T;A.S.O. in the future. On Tuesday 31st, the same Ciub hold a 100 yards senior, and a 50 >ards junior, and it is honed' that the Intrie£ for this race will bo bettor than they were for the last ono. -'-L. Eaton is training very hard for the ■ mile, along with D. Cowan, T;- Knowlesi, and A. Bremfo.-d, tho oljher three long distance, swimmers. An exciting race ought to bo ihe rgsu'lt. Eaton is swimming ibe railo djstance regularly and \i now veil in form for that race. V. Hawkes ri.d D.' p Hodgson are also training hard for the. same race. •'About a dozen swimmers infoir"ed "Orawl" that they would compete in ihe mile if it was'nni off for a collide, of; woeks, s!o that they might i e able ■tp. get in form for the event. Lost erenimg. the writer learned that ihe face hod been i>ostnoiied until late in February, and'itia certain that the CBiC's will be a popular one, ■jri that the competitors -will bo far inore numerous. Next week, some more notes will be «dded.