SWIMMING RECORD.
Otago Schoolboy’s Feat At Carnival. • • Per Press .Assoc I.l%’fin. DUNEDIN, April 14. Otago swimming supporters are enthusiastic over W. J. Jarvis’s 50yds record swim in 23 l-ssec at the primary schools’ swjmming capniyal.’ The'" record having "been fhalde under official conditions, all the requirements were fulfilled, and the record is being forwarded to the New Zealand Council for its recognition, .. The Otago Centre is also urging Jarvis’s claims on the New Zealand Council for nomination in the New Zealand Empire Gaines team. A special attempt is being arranged for him next Thursday to attack Noel Crump’s New Zealand 100yds record of 55 l-ssec. Having regard to the slowness of Dunedin water, Jarvis’s titne is claimed to be the fastest ever recorded in Australia or New Zealand. His first length was done in 14 2-ssec. This performance bears out his form in the 50yds invitation scratch race at Christchurch, when he beat the record-holder, Whareaitu, in a time near to the record. Jarvis-, who is seventeen years of age,, is still at the Otago Boys’ High School.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20280, 14 April 1934, Page 11
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178SWIMMING RECORD. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20280, 14 April 1934, Page 11
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