AND A YOUNGSTER LED THEM HOME
PEPPER V HUNDRED
Cameron Pats New Zealand On Map In A Record Breaking Swim
(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Swimming Correspondent.) The heavenly watering-can was m a perpetual state of overflow on the afternoon of the first day of the national swimming championships, but not sufficient to dampen the ardor of young Cameron, who swam the hundred at a clip which simply walloped the seconds, pulling down the colors of erstwhile sprinters over that distance.
EVEN though the swelling inside his hat-band has not' yet diminished, there is no gainsaying his flair for the swim stuff. If he can force himself to forget the prowess of young "Bill" Cameron, ho will develop into the finest and hottest short-distance man who ever took the plunge m New Zealand waters. He shore one and three- fifths seconds from the time with which Dowsett, of Wanganui, is accredited, and "touched" the line three yards away from Dowsett m 55 4/5 seconds. It was whoop-ec right from the start. ■••■■'. • The four of them — Cameron, Claridqe, Dowsett and Farrell (Auckland) took off simultaneously, and for the first twenty-five yards there wasn't much to tell between them. At the fifty yards turn, however, Cameron was^the length of a draper's measure away from the trio who were threshing it about behind him, and when three-quartors of the distance had been bridged he had added a fur-
ther thirty-six inches £o his advantage, leaving very little doubt m the calculations of those on the bank.
Meanwhile, Dowse*t kicked things along sufficiently to beat Claridge by a yard, while the latter extendedhimself to wrest the third division from Farrell, the Aucklander, by a bare touch. It was an electrifying affair right through, and if young Cameron will give somebody else an opportunity of saying what a good swimmer he is "Truth" places him high m the estimates of potential swim speedsters, and bids him "Go to it, laddie." Billy Cameron is only a lad. This is his first year m, senior class and two years should see him putting up wonder performances. Norman Dowsett is quite satisfied. He told "Truth" that he had no excuses to offer and that he had been bentcn by a real champion. That's the sporting spirit we all like, Dowsett, but you are not finished yet, not by a long swim.
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NZ Truth, Issue 1210, 7 February 1929, Page 14
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392AND A YOUNGSTER LED THEM HOME NZ Truth, Issue 1210, 7 February 1929, Page 14
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