JUNIORS SWIM WELL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 847, 16 December 1929, Page 9

JUNIORS SWIM WELL

OTAGO CHAMPIONSHIPS Press Association DUNEDIN, Monday. Some fine swimming was witnessed at the Otago championships on Saturday evening, especially on the part of tho juniors and the intermediates. Geddes, Xew Zealand junior boys* 75 yards breaststroke and 2JO yards champion, swam a great race, winning tho 100 yards junior boys’ championship in Go 4-ssee, which was 3 l-ssec better than the existing fresh-water record and is the best time ever put up by a junior boy in Xew Zealand, the 100 yards record for salt-water being 66 3-ssec. Geddes won the 75 yards junior J « ys’ breaststroke championship in 59 4-ssec, 1 1- 5 secbet ter than his existing Xew Zealand fresh-water record. It was also one second better than his Xew Zealand salt-water record. In winning, the 50yds junior boys in 28 2-ssec Geddes established a centre record, there being no recognised Xew Zealand record for junior boys over this distance. In the intermediate girls’ 75yds breast-stroke championship Miss M. Mathieson swam over the distance alone and lowered her own Xew Zealand record of 65 4-ssec, by four-fifths of a second. She also won the lOOycis intermediate girls’ free style event comfortably in 76 4-ssec. Bailey and Gillies dead-heated for first place in the men’s 100yds in 65 3-ssec, and Gillies won the 440yds in Gmin JO 4-ssec after an exciting race. Calder, Xew Zealand men’s champion, was at the top of his form and retained the men’s diving championship from Walker.