Champion Swimmers

Evening Star, Issue 19789, 13 February 1928, Page 5

Champion Swimmers

New Zealand Girls in Sydney

Both Win

Fast Times

Presi Association —By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, February 12. The ladies’ swimming carnival’ was held in warm, bright weather. liesuits:— 100 YAHDS CHAMPIONSHIP OF NEW SOUTH WALES. Miss Ena Stockley (New Zealand) 1 Miss Jean Cocks (Bondi) 2 Miss B. Taw (Sydney) 3 Miss Stockley set a hot pace from an even start, and had a comfortable lead at the end of 50yds, with the others almost in line. The New Zealander then went further ahead, and never looked like being defeated, winning most comfortably. It was obvious throughout the race that the pace of Miss Stockley was out of the ordinary. Her time (Imin 6 l-ssec) was only Isec outside the Australian record held by Miss Fanny Durack 440 YARDS NEW SOUTH WALES CHAMPIONSHIP. Miss K. Miller (New Zealand) ... 1 Miss E. Davey 2 Miss B. Taw ... 3 Miss Davey led in the early part of the race from Miss Miller, being 3yds ahead at 220yds, but before the swimmers bad reached the 330yds Miss Miller began to move up. Putting on a phenomenal burst, she caught Miss Davey 25yds from the finish. There was a desperate struggle to touch, the New Zealander gaining the judge’s verdict, though many spectators were under the impression that it was a dead heat. Miss Taw was 12yds away. Time, 6min 3 9-10scc—|sec slower than Miss Fanny Durack’s Australian record.

Miss Ella Smith won the State diving championship. Tho success of the New Zealand girls in their first appearance in Sydney is an indication of what may be expected of tho pair of them before their tour is brought to a close. Though they were but a few days off the boat, both Miss Ena Stockley and Miss Kathleen Miller carried Now Zealand’s colors to victory, and on the lace of it Miss Miller’s success appears the more noteworthy, for in winning the 440yds championhip of New South Wales in (imin 3 9-10scc the Otago girl registered the fastest time of her career over this distance. Her previous best was Cmin Osec at Napier last year, while in establishing a New Zealand fresh water record at Dunedin at the national championships Miss Miller returned 6min 9 2-ssec, Miss' Gwitha Shand’s New Zealand salt water record being 6min Bscc. Apparently it was a great race, which showed that Australia, too, possesses a champion in Miss Edna Davey, who recently shattered Miss Ifanny Durack’s Australian record. Miss Miller won by a touch, and her characteristic spurt was in evidence in the last 100yds. Once she becomes accustomed to Australian con-

Miss Stockley and Miss Millar

ditions she should register even better time, and already she is strongly upholding her claims for inclusion in the New Zealand Olympic team. Miss Ena Stockley, too, registered a sterling performance in the 100yds championship, her time of 66 l-ssec being only Isec outside Miss Fanny Diirack’s Australian record. Miss Stockley's salt water record is 65 3-ssec, and it is quite likely she will do better

than this before the present tour ends. At the New Zealand championships recently her time for 100yds was 68 3-osec, which constituted a New Zealand fresh water record. Second to Miss Stockley on Saturday was Miss Jean Cocks, a twclve-year-old prodigy who recently established an Australian 320yds record of 2min 48 3-fisec.

The New Zealanders will make their next appearance at Melbourne on Saturday.