SWIMMING.
RECOGNITION OF RECORDS. SURPRISING DECISION. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received July 22, 12.20 p.m. PARIS, July 21. The Interantional Swimming Federation created a sm pise at tins morning’s meeting by deciding to ratify Charlton’s Sydney Domain Baths irecords in January last in the 800 and 440 yards, in which he beat Borg- also Borg’s mile record. It also decided to recognise future domain -records if swum up and down the baths. The Federation will probably recognise Miss Duraek’s record, to which Mr Merritt referred. Beaurepaire’s 1500 and 1000 metres, made at: Honolulu, would also be recognised. Each record-breaker received a medal, but all the foregoing records have since been broken in the Olympic races, as cabled.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 July 1924, Page 9
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118SWIMMING. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 July 1924, Page 9
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