BUSY BORG

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 609, 11 March 1929, Page 11

BUSY BORG

Work-Out at Tepid Baths MIDDAY INTERLUDE A hundred-odd Grammar School boys, swimming officials and swimmers comprised the audience to which Arne Borg, the great Swedish swimmer, gave a brief lecture on swimming at the Tepid Baths to-day at the lunch hour. Proceedings were purely informal. Borg managed to find his way to his cubicle in the baths with but few being aware of his identity. He lacks the bulk of the average swimmer. His mild, boyish face and slim, rather ungainly tigure were an effective disguise for a world's champion. Also, he wears horn-rimmed glasses. Borg got to business at once. He wanted someone else to try the water of the baths before he went in himself. A young swimmer. Ray Gee by name, immediatelpy leaped into fame by plunging into the water as an understudy to the champion. Satisfied that no hidden perils lurked in its shimmering depths, Borg dived in. came up out of the water again to his waists, and observed with the joy of one who has made a great discovery: "It’s salt!" There followed a quarter of an hour of keenly appreciated instruction by the champion. Even in the water he was deceptive. But near the ends of the bath, when it was possible to gauge his speed, it was seen that his turn and kick-off were phenomenal. Cameron, ths New Zealand champion, Jack Enwright. Jack Farrell and other prominent swimmers, joined Borg in a mild game of water polo. The Swede seemed to treat it as a tremendous occasion. His keen, alert work in the water was all the more appreciated by the fact that nobody seemed to enjoy it more than Borg himself.

AT TEPID BATHS

MANY CHAMPIONS TO RACE With a host of new world and Australian records to his credit. Arne Borg, of Sweden, world’s distance swimming champion, will make his long-awaited appearance at the Tepid Baths this evening at a special carnival arranged by the Auckland Swimming Centre. Borg’s race with the New Zealand sprint champion, I. W. Cameron, over 100 yards, with a solid field of speedy Aucklanders, such as J. P. Farrell and R. A. Sellars, will be the biggest event New Zealand swimming has seen. Gordon Bridson and David Lindsay, title holder and record holder for the New Zealand quarter-mile championship, are to race Borg over the quarter. It is in this race that Borg will be seen at his best as the quarter-mile is one of his favourite distances. Borg will give a long demonstration and will also play in a polo match. Borg is remarkably clever at the game. In Europe water polo is played seriously and play has been developed on the correct lines. In addition to the races in which Borg will appear, there is a long programme of special events. In the women's races, Peggy Robertson. New Zealand intermediate girl champion, and Ena Stockley, New Zealand women’s sprint champion, are to race over 6t> 2-3 yards.