Swimming BRIDSON CREATES STIR

NZ Truth, Issue 1261, 30 January 1930, Page 12

Swimming BRIDSON CREATES STIR

Scoops Pool At Championships

. (From N.Z. Truth's Greymouth Eepresentative.) The New Zealand swimming championships at Greymouth have been invested with more than usual interest. Several new fresh-water records have been put up. In some cases swimmers have broken their own previous records. ;. Gordon Bridson landed every championship he started m.

KATHLEEN MILLER has proved m- ] vincible and looks like going on winning. Moorhouse is still backstroke champion. Gordon Bridson has had no trouble m landing his races. His stamina and fitness and his agility at the turns made ; him a moral every time. In the 880 yards championship, after taking things easy most of the journey he had no difficulty m breaking D. P. Lindsay's record of 11.44 3/5 by 5 sees., and winning .by 36 yards. He won the mile m 24.81 3/5 without being asked to go, and overlapped Stokes, his nearest rival, winning by 36 yards. He was asked to go only 58 1-5 to beat Stokes again m the 100 yards. Len.^ Moorhouse made no race of It m the backstroke 150 yards championship and was not asked to equal bis previous record m Christchurch. He swam m a straight line and romped home 16 yards m front of Kerr. McConville, the Canterbury hope, gives promise of achieving great things as time goes on. He had no trouble m heading them off m either the 220 or 440 yds. Intermediate, creating a fresh N.Z. record m the 220 yards, which he covered m 2.41 4/5. In the 440 he was never extended, beating Gallate by 12 yards. Kathleen Miller demonstrated her mastery m the water and won the 440 yards championship after one of the finest displays ever seen m Greymouth. She strolled along and was never asked to break her previous record or even to equal it. ] In the 220 yards championship she \ again landed the, bacon, but only by the narrowest of margins. In the second last , lap with all the field up beside her making her "step on the juice," she appeared to get panjeky for an instant and then let go to win by three yards. Rv,„ no £ appear quite fit on that occasion. Enright, the Auckland swimmer, won the Kellerman Cup, swum on Sunday on Lake Brunner, by something over three minutes from the holder, "Stumpy" Claridge, of Wellington. The three-mile course which was set out m a bight m Lake Brunner, was a good one open for a half-mile to a westerly wind, which, with misty rain, made things unpleasant for the swimmers, whilst essaying that portion of the journey. Only the three end men finished the course. Enright, Bailey and Claridge y

leaving m that order did not make any change m .their relative positions until the second mile post had been passed, when Claridge drew on terms with Bailey, and Enright, who had swum strongly all through, established a lead and overhauled Mulloy and Connor.

Bridson further triumphed when he wrested the 220 championship from Stokes m 2.29 3-5. Stokes failed to reach his previous time by four sees. McConville retains his 100 yards title, though he was run to a touch by Hattersley. He had to improve his previous time by three sees. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 >■ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 iI i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 F I ]1 m 1 1 1 1 ! 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ! 1 1 ■■ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ( ■ 1 1 1 1 1 1