BLOW TO SWIMMING

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 305, 16 March 1928, Page 11

BLOW TO SWIMMING

RESIGNATION OF CHAIRMAN AN UNHAPPY CENTRE By "EIGHTBEAT.” For some time now the Auckland Swimming Centre has not been a particularly happy body, and ill feeling lias been rife. Last season was a very breezy one, and now the end of the present season finds things developing rapidly in the wrong direction. The resignation of Mr. Jack Enwright, as chairman, is a bigger blow to the centre than several of the members realise. Few men have done more for the good of the sport than he has. but Mr. Enwright evidently feels that no man could stand the aspersions cast at him, first over the choice of the Olympic representatives, and then when the question whether Miss Stockley should swim in a 100yds invitation race at the centre carnival on Thursday came up for consideration. GETTING IT BOTH WAYS As Mr. Enwright said at that meetj ing, "First I am rapped over the | knuckles for doing what I did in the I choice of the Olympic representatives and am told I am against Miss Stockley, and now you tell me I am supporting her.” The resignation of another official is in the air, and if it takes place, then the Auckland Swimming Centre will be without two of its most efficient members. It seems a pity that petty feeling has invaded the atmosphere of the meetings for so long. Swimming is on a very high piano in Auckland, and if it is to remain, there unanimity and collective enthusiasm are essential at the