THE OLD BRIGADE
WHEN Billy Cameron climbed out of Te Aro baths on Saturday after his record-breaking swim over 100, yards m the national championship, the first person to congratulate him was W. R. Sneddon, the sprint champion " of 1890. - . Sneddon smiled when'"Truth" asked - him a few questions about swimming j m those days. * Sneddon, who is now chief engineer of the Remuera, repi-esented Canterbury, and' he covered the hundred m - 77 4/5 sees. . "You might laugh at the time," he ' said, "but m those days the regulation ,i costume was elbow to knee, and we ■ wore running trousers, and singlets, j which became waterlogged m the first five yards." ' OTAGO STRONG I THAT Otago athletics will be well re- *■ presented m Wellington on Febr r.vary 22 and 23 is becoming more cvii. dent every week. . I There is little doubt that the New a Zealand championships will see one of ;• the strongest and most comprehensive t'oams the southern province has turned out for several years.
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NZ Truth, Issue 1210, 7 February 1929, Page 15
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