WELLINGTON SWIMMING CLUB.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 633, 9 October 1909, Page 13

WELLINGTON SWIMMING CLUB.

■?.'.Tn«' ,'fif I»i'preseiiti4vat-''tte' annual ijmMting.i'.bfithb.JAyellingtoli; Swimming • .Gliibtott;*Mbnday,';;,6ay3;-ihat 'the ; .club :.statted tne--seaHin>-with '140: members rand ended, with: .Ip3,;fl.iiancial:m6ml)i!rsYlnieiplanatibn'of Hio decrease;.tho:'bqriimitt«e say. that" the members': 'list ;has. Wjftt I jarefullj:'.MTiscd;/and/manT''bf ;thfl.^;oldet'^merabers > swim.their named .Y^yvthVreeafdY'.fb;.^ )hevcomp.etttioh',fbr'.ths : Duthio;.Cup was held •ntvthovcarhiyal^'aiid'Tcsnltea.'again.in- a'-win-for, Clyde-QubyiSchobl.'Vi'The-rcup ; has-,been. in cotapetitipn; for- four'.yetirJß, ;an,d: each year the "™y e . ,¥?^ ol .r) lns 'it; .The. swimming:, of-6qmo:.of their'lads; was'o£ a ycry.; prohiisihg;order.'*'..a;he-oommitteethank for:; M] amount of time : and energy, hb? placed'at'the-disposal of the-smaller Wr'iU^*^ ll ?; th « n to'«w'"n-';.Jhe-'presi-'i l fW ?&*•■ Chaptile):cup was'competed for over threes-distances',(so, 100, x and; 150 ■■ Tafds),\and was-final v-won-for-the. sea'sonvby H! Ashford.. ■ I^' v ffi-^; ; :W eseil teup. competed for over 220 and ,440 v yiwds>;, was; won : ; by /'B.J'.O'Neill;''- whose ■ n ' l ?i:: w *?.' :asT.welbdese'rved' -as'/it .'was:pbpu]ar.; Vlnf; March,;^Pred: : - Club,';made a bril- ■(?& nZ%. a / ~lS NWi P "formirice.■::■.This; race was ;,tho : .Oul.standing.^ e ature of: the Carnival;. .^»^»-m^sßort:during,:thes e asorivi 9 TnfiiiWfc' •■'.?6-'. wn s-.very successful in several S^^ 111 ' 11 '™^ 111 the amount f, hard, traluing-: Bo:: submitted himself' to he : &Fs : - te rV H- of :th °' Besses™!"fiaS W : ained^-:,Tho;;clUb*s.: 6 h o wing,'at/polo."was abetter rthan; S! n^evious: ybars^gutvi^r; tnis ofSi for £n."r-'+VW.vJI*?Jp,v,tne/.;expend1*?Jp,v, tne /. ; expend ture- reached--450, leaving.'.a: credit ,balancevof r£lo- oVfhe : .season's 1 , operatione."i -Clu^racingf.was 1 curled ■ m additionitpiho'carnlval-.-, T:ie"otal number carnival-reached 324 /:A> I .e:^^t9lfP^l».mdn<y/distributed^dffinK;tha■ season 2s v there subl cessful/compat thanks;bf°thfclub .. w? dneito,,Us pto dent (ft ■. Ohapbloj !!« ts ,<£v'fonayne,!Jv;;Duthie; -j;- ? TT mo,;H;-A,.-Andersonf for;donatibiis during the : season .to■,ilr;,-.C..D i ;Mornethi.fo? tw'SVi-T? ;aßce/during'the:6easbnV';'-::f , :/"^ ,y ;;?? sls ,