Swimming Dispute Reaches Climax

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 304, 15 March 1928, Page 9

Swimming Dispute Reaches Climax

CHAIRMAN RESIGNS CENTRE “NOT A HAPPY BODY” “We do not pull together as we should, and are not a happy body. I will give my explanation if required at the meeting before which my resignation will come.” said Mr. Jack Enwright this morning, when asked to verify the reports of his resignation as chairman of the Auckland Swimming Centre. | IRITIS is the sequel to a series of unpleasant incidents which have | marred the conduct of the affairs of ! the centre for some time past, being j connected more especially with the 1 recent trouble over the choice of the Olympic representatives, and the further trouble on Tuesday evening concerning the swimming of Miss Stockley in a 100yds scratch invitation race. Mr. Enwright states that he also resigns from the position of delegate to the Auckland Centre for the Waitemata Club, and also as a member of the committee of that club. He states that he will take no further part in the administrative side of swimming, but as he has the sport so much at heart he will not retire from competition. A well-known swimmer, and an exDominion champion, Mr. Enwright’s services will be a distinct loss to the centre. He was only appointed chairman this season, and the choice was a unanimous one. He was the centre’s delegate to the annual conference and was also manager of the Auckland team. “We are frightened to do a thing now,” said anotner prominent member of the centre, when seen this morning. “There is no getting away from the fact that the meeting on Tuesday night was a vote of no confidence in two of the three members of the selection committee, of which Mr. Enwright was one. There has been a lot of ill-feel-in lately, and I am disgusted, too. They have not treated Mr. Enwright fairly.” Answering the charge that she was afraid to swim for fear of being beaten, Miss E. Stockley says that she was surprised to know it was thought she did not wish to swim in the 100yds invitation race. She was quite prepared to race over that distance. But as the Auckland Centre had decided there should be no invitation race, she suggested that any lady wishing to swim against her should accompany her over 100yds when she makes an attempt on the 100 metres record. A.t the meeting on Tuesday evening, while several delegates were speaking at once, the statement that Miss Stockley was “funking” the swim was attributed to Mr. A. E. Edenborough. Althouhg this remark was used, it was inadvertently put to the name of Mr. Edenborough.