WOMEN SWIMMERS

Wanganui Chronicle, 24 February 1947, Page 7

WOMEN SWIMMERS

AUSTRALIAN VISITORS ARRIVE TOLK OF DOMINION (P.A.) Auckland, Feb. 21. Delayed for two days by transport difficulties, the team of Australian . women swimmers, comprising Mrs. M Chambers (chaperone) and Misses U. Crittenden and N. Maclean, arrived in Auckland by trans-Tasman plane. They will make their first appearance of a six weeks’ tour of both islands at the Olympic Pool, Newmaryet, to-morrow night, when a carnival in their honour will be staged. Miss Crittenden is 18 and holder of the 110 and 220 yards New South Wales women’s freestyle championships. She competed at the Australian championships and won third placing in the 110 yards race. At the moment she is suffering the discomfort of a boil on her face. Miss Maclean is 16, and last year won the Australian junior diving title. She was unable to compete this year because of a combination of infected ear and influenza with suspected appendix ss a further complication. She is also a medley swimmer, freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke. She has no favourite dives. She said she prefers diving from a three-metre springboard, but for exhibition purposes has often dived from a 10-metre tower. Mrs. Chambers has had an amazing administrative record in sports. She has been general secretary of the Australian Womens' Amateur Swimming Association for 34 years, and is president of the New South Wales bodv. She is also president of the Australian Women’s Athletic Union. This is her fourth trip to New Zealand with swimming teams, the last being with Misses Claire Dennis, an Olympic champion, and F. Bult in the 1933-34 season.