VERY FAST

NZ Truth, Issue 1209, 31 January 1929, Page 12

VERY FAST

■'Otago Youths Records j (From "N.Z.. Truth's" Dunedin Rep.) The efforts of two young Dunedinites to reduce one or two New Zealand swimming records met success at the Kiwi Swimming Club's Carnival last Thursday. riFTBEN- YEARS- OLD ' Maxiene Mathieson, Otago's intermediate girls' breast-stroke and free-style champion, clipped three-fifths of a second off the existing intermediate girl's 75 yards record' of 1 mm. 6 2-"5 sees., established by Miss D. Breward, of Christchurch. ■ The now well-known Reggie Geddes, who, at twelve years of age, holds the N.Z. record fpr junior boys breaststroke, knocked *"s. 2-5 seconds off G. Boyd's (Wanganui), 75 yards freshwater time of lmin. 6 2-5 sees. He' also beat young; Leslie Old's time of lmin.. 2 1-5 sees. -for salt-water by 1 1-5 seconds. ;