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SWIMMING AT NAPIER ! HAWKE’S BAY CHAMPIONSHIPS Press Association. NAPIER, Wednesday. „? awk , e ’ s Ba -y provincial swlm.championships concluded at ule , baths to-night. The principal event of the evening, the 100 > ards men’s championship was won hv ground (Napier) by two feelTrora ?iank r ?Gis n bo ( r G „L S ) b S SeC ° nd ' and D ' tc-rnan (Hastings) dead-heated in 54 ”,, • creaking the existing record by t> 2-SS. , N - Stevens (Queenswood fechool) lowered the 75yds schoolgirls' championship shortly afterwards, covering the distance in 58s, the previous best being 595. Swimming an unpaced race through the scarcity of girl swimmers, Miss Simmonds (Napier) put up a splendid performance by shattering the 220yds women’s championship record in the line time of 3m 7 3-ss, the previous record being 3m 8 2-ss.
The G:.sborne team romped home in the Swain Memorial Cup relay race by seven yards from Napier. The winners clipped 4 3-5 s off the old record.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 292, 1 March 1928, Page 15
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