SWIMMING.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1643, 9 January 1913, Page 9

SWIMMING.

-Now that the swimming season is vrell pdvancefj, Mr,'T. Shields* a local swim-, muig will commence W j classes JTor.boys at jhe,Te Arg Baths to,day, from .8 .to 5 p.m. '. Besides teaching the- boys life-saving and swimming, l ' Mr. Shields. examines..them for . probciency • certificates. Mr. Shields hna taught boys to feivim, and ho does it > solely for the love of the sport. . SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP. ARNST, CHALLENGE AGAIN. J3y Telei/raph-Presa Assocla/tlon—Copyright (Rec. Januarv 8, 8.45 p.m.) tj" 4 'l ' £ Sydney,: January 8. .'.'it., Arnst contemplates endeavouring to recover the sculling championship. He has received .an of free passages around tho /world :for himself qnd hjs ! wife, providing , ho iTows several matches m America,- and subsequently, challenges tho winner ot tho.Pearce-Barry contest ! i, Arnst Trill probably accept'the offer, '• ATHLETIC & CYCLINO UNION. ANNUAL CONFERENCE. I jßy Telsgraph—Frees, Association—Copyrifcak I I m , , Blenheim, January 8. i The annual conference of the-New Zea-' I land Athletic : and Cycling; Union 'was I opened; to-night; under tho presidency of i Mr. J. Kennedy (Geraldine). The delegates were officially -welcomed by - tl\o I Mayor and'the local executive. They were afterwards-eptertained -at supper by the Marlborough ' and Nelson I 'Centres. : ' After a .lengthy , discussion, ' instituted 1 by Mr. Woodby- (Auokland), expressing the. protest of his centra against' the. action 'of■ the ■ executiveiin the matter of, tho ■ disiijitoi between the Auckland; and Otagij > Caledonian 'Societies ':'in' connection 1 with tho visit ;of Postie and Donaldson, po option was-taken. : 1 ' - ,■ The president, in.: hisi annual address, said the year, had been a'.successful one. He incidentally referred to the reciprocal agreement- with ,'tho Auatralian 'Federnl ■ Council;,and tl\6 jjiterest in sport. ■ !Tl)e, position of four unfinancial centres' tfp#' ??4 this pdciwiqn,. the delegates, be allowed :to vote, :: in,view of-.patwfactory explanabQnsi !;:■ ;Rpmlts..were passed- eroviJling that.none i butj activo ;inembers of, centres. bo ■ elected to the executive of the union; that a delegate. or representing a centre be allowed..to exercise the. full voting power,'of siich centro at .the annual eoi].JerenCf.. The i proposition that Qqmpetitops; must' toe, the mark, but may put theirTiands before tho mark, was lost'j as.alM Wiis a remit asking the conference.' to' recognise, the times, put on' Postle'at Ahckland in March last as ~