NO EFFORT!

NZ Truth, Issue 1215, 14 March 1929, Page 14

NO EFFORT!

BorgQipsOff Seconds

SWEDEiMFORM

(From' "N.Z. Truth's" 'AWckl^id Rep.) The great Arrie? B'org 'hasil'been •'■■ to Auckland' The whole Dominion has reason to know it, for smashing < New Zealand/rrjecords' ' was his chief, pastime ton. the night he made his bowtp , a"; packed v house 'm the tepid baths.? .;;v - I UB did not, need to become't.oyerheat- ** ed to tlsar seventeen second's from 1 Lindsay's, quarter-mile record. _*, ;" •; Although, he gave away .eighteen and twenty-hine/V seconds, . his ..■ :] powerful Btroke was' hot <full^: taxed(;tp7 • cover, the distance m five minutes, seven and two- fifths seconds.; -•.■.., ; - ; > • Borg •knocked) -a ;.flfth of a second off Cameron's hundred yards time "of 65~ 4-5, arid m this race left' the Wellington champion five feet behind m the fight tothe tape. . - .....". Cameron vras not up to form and took 5$ 3-6 seconds to complete the

distance. He held Borg In the early stages. As. soon as the powerful Swede clapped on the pace m the sprint for home it was all over. He wore Cameron down and then shot past comf brtably. The race was the big L eye"nt of the night and the fans were looking: to Cameron to show them something new. The "New Zealander, however, may as welt have tried, swimming against a submarine as -hold the overseas : exponent<for the full' distance';" ■ It was the Borg the publio had read of — theY thrill provider from Sweden — and he;' lived up to Ms reputation on this his first and only New Zealand appearance. : , If pushed, Borg would have opened the spectators' eyes still further. '•