RAINBOW SHIELD TO HAVELOCK

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 37, 27 February 1937, Page 6

RAINBOW SHIELD TO HAVELOCK

Inter-Club Swimming Final RECORD ATTEMPTS FAIL The final series of swimming caruivals for the Rainbow Shield and Baird Pennants was last evening conducted by the Heretaunga Swimming Club. There* was a large • and * enthusiastie gathering * of ' spectators. During the evening thee attempts were made on records, the .first being by Bridge (Mahora) on the junio'r boys' 100 yards record, and the second by Miss P. Campbell (Heretaunga) on the 100 yards intermediate.girls' record, but in •both » cases the time were slower than the records. D. P. Lindsay, of Dannevirke, together with R. Syman, also of Dannevirke, made an attack on the New Zealand record for the 440 yards, but just failed to break this by 1 1-5 secs, his time being 5 mins. 15 1-5 secs. Results: — ' , V . ' Junior girls, 85 yards.— Miss B. McCracken (H.N.) 1, Miss M. Tritt (M.) 2, Miss S. Howard (H.) 3. Time, 60 4-5 secs. ' Junior boys, 75 yards. — First heat: Downey (H.) 1, T. McCracken (H.N.)' 2, J. Brady 3. Time, 52 4-5 secs. S«cond heat: Kelt (H.) 1, Bridge (M.) 2, Hill (H.) 3. Time, 55 1-5 secs. Final: Downey (H.) 1, Kelt (H:) 2, McCracken (H.N.) 3. * Time 52 secs. Intermediate boys, 220 yards. — C. Ferguson (H.N.) I, R. Fox (H.) 2, J. Mclvor (H.) 3. Time, '2 mins. 53 secs. Intermediate girls, 100 yards.— Miss Campbell (H) 1, Miss G. Hyslop (M) 2, Miss B. Thompson (M) 3. Time, 77 1-5 secs. Junior dive. — Eves (HN) 1, McCracken (HN) 2, Dyer (M) -3. Senior men, 220 yards. — R. Watkins (M) 1, M. Ashman (H) 2, H. Christie (HN) 3. Time, 2.301-5. Senior women) 100 yards. — Miss P. Rpbertson (H) 1, Miss M. Shaw (H) 2. Time, Imin; 27sec. - , Senior dive. — Wright ,(H) 1, Duncan (HN) 2, Russell (HN) 3. Junior' breaststroke, 50 yards. — Miss M. Tritt (M) 1. Time, .49 l-5secs. The • remainder of tho field was disqualified for not swimming true breaststroke. Teams race. — Havelock No. 1 (Heffernan, Leiecster, B. and H. Christie) 1, Heretaunga No. 1 (McDougall, Hare, Ashman, Catherall) 2, Havelock No. 2 (Duncan, Joll," F. Ferguson, Russell) 3. Time, 48 4-5secs. Up till last night the points for the Rainfiow Shield stpod at— - . Havelock; North * . ..» • • . . . 89 Heretaunga. •••••••••••• 61 i Mahora 44 i . . • Points for last night 's meeting were: • Heretaunga ............ 39 Havelock North 34 Mahora 20 Havelock Noith were declared winners with w grand total of 123 points, Heretaunga were . second with 100 « points, and Mahora were third with 64 points. The Baird Pennants were won by the various clubs as follow: — Havelock North club. — Shield pennant, junior girls, senior diving, junior diving, teams. Heretaunga club.— Junior bpys, intermediate boys, women. Mahora club. — Intermediate girls, senior men.