SWIMMING
HAAVKE’S BAY .CHAMPIONSHIPS. By telegraph.—Press association. Napier, February 28. The Hawke’s Bay provincial swimming championships opened at the Municipal Baths to-night in climatic conditions which, to say the least, were not seasonable. This tact affected the attendance to a certain extent. Ihree records were broken, all by local swimmers. . , , G. Gleesou (Napier), in the schoolboys’ section, finished with two records to his credit, reducing the 50 yards schoolboys’ championship time of 33 1-5 sec. by three-fiiths of a second, • and lowering tho 150 yards limo of 2min. 74sec. by two and one-fifth sec. "Aliss Al. Simmonds (Napier) put up quite a remarkable performance by lowering her own record for the ladies’ 100 yards. Being tho only competitor, she swam unpaced, and did the distance in 71 l-ftsec, 1 3-sseo better than the previous time. The most exciting finish of the evening was in the 100 yards men’s championship, Lound (Napier) beating D. AlcKeague (Gisborne) by half a foot, and Richardson (Gisborne) being inches away Plank (Gisborne) annexed the 220 yards’ title in convincing style, the previous title holder, Lambie (Napier), being last of tho field of seven. Russell (Napier) wag second
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 129, 29 February 1928, Page 6
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192SWIMMING Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 129, 29 February 1928, Page 6
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