OLYMPIC ATHLETES
CHARLTON AND ELLIOTT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LOS ANGELES, July 12. “Boy” Charlton l is creating a big splash at the Olympic swimming stad- ; um where he has been correcting a few faults and swimming higher out out of the water,” said Frank Beaurspa’re. “He cut on© eighth of a second off each hundred metre, lap. In the fifteen hundred metres he will win the •event and set a new record.” A. J. Elliott, the New Zealand sprinter, was unofficially timed at 10.8 seconds for the hundred metres, and 5.2 for the fifty yards. Elliott, who is used to grass courses is finding greater speed possible because of the solid clay tracks. 0 MISS LILY OOPPLESTONE. LONDON, July 12. Miss Lily C'opplestone swam front Bournemouth to Boscombe, a distance of one and a half miles, unaccompanied, in forty-one minutes, breaking the men’s record by four minutes. She will attempt the Channel ♦crossing about July 25th.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1932, Page 5
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