SWIMMING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 733, 4 February 1910, Page 7

SWIMMING.

THE CHAMPIONSHIPS MEETING,

WIiIiLINGTON TO BE REPRESENTED. A well-attended meeting of tho Wellington Centre of the. New Zealand Amar tour Swimming Association was held, at the ; Y.M.C.A.. rooms last, evening, Mr. L : W. Ludwig presiding.

A letter was rend from the Thorndon Club regarding the Wellington, rqpre-. sontatiou at the championship meeting, and asking: the centre to rescind . its resolution that tho centre bo not: reprosonted. Tho club considered that, if thi& : latter course was followed, ..it would do a great deal of harm to swimming in Wellington genor'ally; Tho chairman- said thnt^it. was generally understood that tho resolution passed was only a matter of "bluit." Mr. U, S., Hill objected to the word "bluff,"-and as there had been so much correspondence in the papers about it, lip thought that, the meeting should go into committee.

Miv.Ludwig replied that Mr. Hill was responsible ior the word "bluff" used. Mr„ E. J., Fleming'.then moved; .That Reg" Healy, of the Thorndon Club, represent the Wellington Centre; 'and 1 that his expenses'bo paid.. v 'i'ho motion was seconded by Mr. B. C. i'royborg, and carried' unanimously. ■, The chairman then referred to tlie question', of, financing, the expenses of Wellington representatives to Auckland. Thei'. Gavernmeut, he . tho'igbt,granted the New. Zealand Council money for. the' encouragement 0f.., swimming generally, and, he did not think, that, the, monoy which tho .Welliugtra, Centra possessed (between ;E4O .and should he devoted solely for _■ humane work. The; humane branch might lend to the , competitive .branch, and, in that direction, ho' pro':: posed that tho centre.borrow i!2O out of tho money which they had iiv: hand, -. Mr. Hill desired ',to. know whether tho centra 1 would be ; committing itself by doing that.. Would 'the New- Zealand Council object? : ; , • iThci chairman replied that when he-was last in.' Christchurch he had- found that

thero were not separate, accounts in!tlio council's balance-sheet 7 for humane and compotitivo swimming.,' The . New, ' Zealand Couiicil should not be perqiitted to thmk that the Wellington Centre comprised schoolboys.- He concluded •by stating ;'that-he'. was, willing to .tako' the responsibility of borrowing the vE2O required, . and ho therefore proposed: that that sum bo' taken from. the - humanebranclvof the centre's funds for tlie-use of'. the competitive'. branch. .;; ■ C. A. Macdonald seconded 1 ; the resolution, which -was carried-. It was also decided that a . polo team ,be sent to Auckland, ajjd the represontiitives ba chosen by Mr. G. E. Sadd.. : Mr. F. Wilton.gavo notice tb'move at' next meeting i '.'Tnat Rule 2 shall be. altered to-read:. 'Each club shall elect two f attend til© annual meeting or the centre, at .whicli a committed of seven mombers, exclusive of; the cbairman, > gecr&tary, and treasurer,: shall be ojec ted, those present to conduct the business .of the centra for the-ensuing yey.; ■. Each club shall, ua 'annual contre'^'' 1011 °B«. guinea to the

On _the motion of-Mr, Shields, seconded by, Mr;, Joslin, it was'decided' to abandon tho centre's carnival • this season, ' . It. was resolved that tho 100 yds. centre ohampionship be allotted .to,tho Swifts Qfp * andthe 220 yds. centre' champion-' ship be. given to the Wellington Club'. . : ..at - .was. .dewded , .thht - ''permission:'': be. granted-the i.'M.C.A., Club at Mastertbn to hold, their . «arn)val :this. month, but' that .the ..question of ; granting-; tho' sum of ono, guinea for a lifo-saving event be allowed until the club had paid . the affiliation fee.' : : It, was .'decided ■ that ''the centre '• be re-' printed atthe conference of delegates to be, hold at Auckland during tho ohampionship meeting.-" - , Mr. tihieldS; moved that when the', cen.tre.;grants'apprize to any: olub for a. life-' Savings event it should -specify the work to be.perloi-mcd- by tho contestants.-' -.; W M r iaS^ fCW?dCd ,^ 0 :-

:' Jfesre. Ludwig, Hi)'), and Wilton were : appointed a sub-committcq to revise the cenwsrutes. -v-..: it had. abandoned.its,curwvaWor;J?abr\iaryje.and proposed holding a gala on' the,evening of. ilarcli 2, when Lord Kit. ohener will bo. in the district.' Th 6 club asked that' the contro should itiso its en-, deavours to '.procure the council's, sanction for .that., .The club also advised; that' if the,application was. granted it .intended lighting the baths, sufficiently well for the iports to De seen to advantage. ; : v \ ■ ,It was .decided that the-: recent polo match, Wellington:A. v, ,Swifts,be replayed, ,owing : to an appeal as to the scoro• of,a. certain ga01...-It;was further resolved l ;to inform, the referee (Mr. Sadd) that ■iniffjjture ■ho .is 'to abide. by •' the water piilo rules drawn up :by the New Zcftlnnd;! Amateur Assooiation, ■ and fur. thor. t\i;it Jt.vis . immaterial, which side puts, tho ball through tho goal in scoring,