TO-MORROW’S SWIMMING

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 543, 21 December 1928, Page 11

TO-MORROW’S SWIMMING

DEVONPORT AND PONSONBY Two of Auckland’s swimming clubs, Devonport and Ponsonby, will stage events to-morrow. The Devonport Amateur Swimming Club will hold its first Carnival of the season at Cheltenham Beach. A fine programme of events has been arranged, and some interesting sport should be witnessed. All the best swimmers will compete. A 50yds inter-club handicap, and a novelty event, will be held by the Ponsonby Amateur Swimming and Lifesaving Club at the Shelly Beach baths. SPORTS AT TAPU CYCLING HANDICAPS DECLARED The following handicaps have been declared by Messrs. Cleaver and Stewart for the 31 miles road race from Whitianga Hotel to Tapu Reserve on January 1, in conjunction with the Tapu sports: J. Whitten, ser.; H. R. Dwight, H. G. Brewin, 2min; C. G. Galbraith, C. I. Gainsborough, J. C Stewart, 31 min; S. Litchfield, Bmin; C A. Clarke, R. G. Foubister, 7min; S Baird. lOmin; D. Fletcher, 15min; W. Clarke, 30min. The race will start at one o’clock. AMENDED HANDICAPS The following ainended handicaps have been declared for the 15-inch standing chop at the Springdale sports: H. McCormick, A. Honey, A. Stockfey, A. Costello, 26sec. DISTANCE SWIMMER BACK CAUSED “SCARE” IN SYDNEY Ronald Webster, of Takapuna, the distance swimmer, has returned to Auckland after an extended visit to Sydney. He makes light of the “scare” he he caused Sydney surf patrollers when he swam a considerable distance beyond the breakers at Manly. Webster describes the affair as “just a little swim.” He states" that lie has no particular plans for swimming in future.

TENNIS NOT SPORT Once upon a. time, a magistrate who was asked to convict a golfer for “desecrating the Sabbath” by playing a sports same on that day. held that Iff ms not a sport, but a -sort of religious fetish. Now the French authorities have virtually ruled that is not a sport, but a spectacle. 1 Able message on October 22 stated that all tennis tournaments in France the winter season of 1928-29 naa been c ncelled by the Lawn Tennis Federation as a protest against the decision of the authorities to levy an entertainment tax on all club receipts. The federation, in a manifesto, declares that it is absurd for the Treasury officials to maintain that hiwn tennis is not a sport. As long as tins interpretation of the law is maintained no public tournaments will be held. The covered-courts championships of Prance will be held, but privately, and offiy officials of the federation and iourmlits will be allowed to attend. If tne decision to tax the lawn tennis “gates” is not rescinded by next spring, the federation will continue its spi ll| pi ... rer ues t some other campaign and nation, ei r official rounds of STp which, are due to he played in France-

An Unlikely “New Year Resolution ” At a special general meeting of the Eden Bank Bob Barr acker s’ Brigade, the following resolution teas parsed: “That this meeting places on record its deep sympathy with the Auckland Cricket Association in the lamented loss from No. 1 wicket of the Eden Cricket XI , which, during its prolonged stay in our midst, has endeared itself to every member of this association; and that a special vote of thanks be accorded to the Eden APOSTLE for the painstaking and patient manner in which he carried out his duties as official grave-digger to members of this association who sleep the long sleep in Eden; and further, that we express our strong disapproval of the manner in which Bro. Harry Roy so far saw fit to desecrate the solemnity of Old Cricketers 9 Memorial Day by causing divers commotions among the assembled mourners on the Rocks of Ages, to icit, the hitting of cricket balls in hallowedground. ‘No longer can we sleep rocked in the cradle with the sheep. . . .* ” —Proposed by Bro. Hike Hills, seconded by Bro. Stonewall Jackson, and carried in stony silence.