SWIMMERS DISSATISFIED.
LADIES SHOULD GO TO OLYMPIC GAMES. (By Telegraph— Presi Association.) DUNEDIN. This Day. The--.Otago Centre of the Swimming Association, at a meeting, opposed the order of selection for the Olympic Games, urging that the order should be:. Miss Miller, Miss Stocklcy, D. P. Lindsay. The chairman pointed out. that the girls should certainly have preference over Lindsay if swimmers wore to be sent with a chance of reaching the finals. Miss Miller, with the disadvantage of a 110 yards bath, had swum 440 yards, in only 7secs outside a /world’s record. In a 25 yards bath, Lindsay’s time for 440 yards was 32 seconds outside the record and he would have no chance against mon like Borg and Weismuller.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 1 March 1928, Page 5
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