DISAPPOINTED SWIMMERS.
No Flannagan Cup Race This Year. The four Stratford swimmers who have been training for the Flannagan Cup open sea swimming event, are bitterly disappointed at the decUion of last night’s Taranaki Swimming Centre to abandon the race for thii year. Stratford delegates, bearing in mind the enthusiastic preparations of their club members, fought hard to have the event held, but other dele gates l felt that the bad weather colditions made the water too cold for a swim lasting over an hour in the open sea.
Al the Centre meeting in New Ply. mouth last night, it v.'as decided to contribute £2 2s to the fund for a presentation to M. P. Donnelly, the cricketer who will represent’ New Zealand on the forthcoming English tour. A proposal from Hawkes Bay to hold North Island swimming championships was not supported, delegates feeling that such an action would engender differences between the t-v.io islands and would detrimentally affect swimming in the Dominion. Messrs A. G. Petrie and V. J. Henderson represented Stratford.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 375, 5 March 1937, Page 4
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173DISAPPOINTED SWIMMERS. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 375, 5 March 1937, Page 4
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