SWIMMING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2074, 28 December 1907, Page 3 (Supplement)

SWIMMING.

Cecil Healy, tlie .Sydney crack put up a great performance when lie won the 5000 yards championship of New South AVales recently. The race is described as follow: Tlie start for the five hundred was a capital one. anil Baker’s line shoot from tlie platform caused him to rise ahead of the others, but lie was only there on sufferance, for tlie close of tlie initial lap 50yds saw Cecil Healv displace him and round into the next stretch first. At 100yds Cecil held. .111 advantage of a yard (time, lmin 3 4-osec). Healey’s lead was doubled at 200yds (2min 18 2-ssec), Baker still second, and Garland, 6yds further away, third, a yard more advantageously situated than tlie Pyrmont lad, Dickmui. Travelling at a splendid clip, and swimming a capital crawl stroke, Heaiy showed speed and power that promised a fine performance. Ho gained 6yds on Baker in tlie third hundred (3min 38 3-ssec), and two more in tlie next —ten altogether. Ere 400yds (Snxin 1 4-ssec) hail been completed, Dickman swam into third position. Eventually Cecil won, levels to tlio good, with Biker second, a few feet ahead of Garland, who, finishing strongly, lasted better than Dickman. over whom he had a 4yds margin. Tlie winner spurted grandly down tlie last lap, and tlie plaudits of the spectators followed him to his dressing room. Tlie times of the four competito-s (as recorded by officiil timekeeper Mr AV. T. lverr’s watch) lor ihe different hundreds of tlie five inui red were: Healy 6min 23 1-osec, Baker 6min 10 I—ssec, Garland 6m:n 41 1-5 sec, and Dickman 6min 45s<>o. The world’s record is Omin., to tlie credit of tlie late Barney Kieran, and accomplished at Jsoiitliport (England) on Sept. 5, 1905. The best nerformance over the distance by Biliington. tlie world’s professional champion. was Omin _2lsec.. at Adelaide last "January. Nearly six years ago Nuttall, ex-professional champion of the world, covered 500yds at Leicester in Grain 24 l-osec, and Dick Caviii’s speediest time was liis Grain 61. sec in tho Domain Baths, January 16, 1904.