SWIMMING.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 6, 5 August 1908, Page 13

SWIMMING.

E. E. Beaurepaire, the Victorian champion, won the 220 yards Amateur Swimming Association Championship at Nottingham in 2 min. 37 sees. Radmilovic was second and de Halmay third. C. M. Daniels, the American, and H. Taylor, the English champion, did not compete. Harold Smyrk, the Sydney swimmer, who represented Australia in the diving competitions at the Olympic games, won the fancy diving championship of England at the Amateur Swimming Association’s meeting. H. Taylor, the English champion, won the 500 yards swimming championship of England at Manchester in 6 min. 14 sees., beating Battersby by 8 yards. The latter beat F. E. Beaurepaire, the Victorian, by a touch. A message from Hamburg states that E. W. Springfield, of Queensland, who Is to compete in the Olympic games next month, won three races there on Sunday. He won the 100 metres (109.3 yards) in Imin. 16 l-ssec., 200 metres (217.6 yards) in 2min. 45 3-ssec., and the 600 metres (655.8 yards), in 9min. 20see. When in 1906 Cecil Healy, the Australian champion, visited Hamburg, he won the 100 metres race in lmin.fi Bsec., bat was defeated in the other events. In Germany the swimmers do not start in the same method as other countries. Instead of diving the men line up in the water against a rope, and at the word commence the race. This method, of course, has the effect of causing the men to occupy longer time over the journey. F. Unwin, the Sheffielder, carried all before him in the back stroke race at the Stadium last month. He won easily, and) put up much better time than the winner of the second race. For Unwin the watch showed Imin. 28 2-ssec., and for Willis, of Manchester Mayfield, Imin. 34 3-ssee, the latter’s time being beaten by several men in the first heat. Another Yorkshire success followed, for Blatherwick, of Sheffield, won the 400 metres, in which, of course, some of the best men were not competing. He won by fully 40 yards, in 6min. 12 3-ssec., but would have improved upon that had the Scottish champion Haynes been in better form.—• (Engli&h Exchange.)