SWIMMING NOTES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10459, 25 October 1911, Page 6

SWIMMING NOTES.

(By "Trudge.")

The New Plymouth Club held its annual meeting recently, find the report discloses a prosperous condition'. The club will probably open its season early next month. The local club will no doubt feel the loss of the services of Alf. Snowball very much this season. Mr Snowball was an enthusiastic swimmer, and did much good in the life-saving department.

, Local swimmers were not growling a, little bit at the condition of the weather last week There was no need to go to the swimming baths to get wet. And things are, not looking too sweet so far this weekChampion, the Auckland swimmer, who represented New Zealand at the Festival of Empire Sports, has, ,by all accounts, not done so well as was expected. It is rumoured "that he will turn professional.,.but nevertheless h's future career will be keenly watched by his admirers. The management of the Wairarapa Amateur Swimming Club are very pleased with the position of the Coronation Hall in the Masterton Park. From the broad verandah of the new building a fine view can be hal of the lake. The erection of , a large marquee at past carnivals had proved a considerable" item, and this \yill no longer be necessary.

The' Canterbury centre of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association recently suggested to the District Headquarters "Defence Office, Christchurch, that swimming ibaths should be constructed ai Territorial camps, in order tp keep swimmers in practice for races that l they desired ! to compete in. At a recent meeting of the centre* a letter was received .from the Christ- , church Defence Office to the effect that if possible swimming baths would, be arranged for at Territorial crimps'. The amateur status of BeauVepaire, the wonderful Victorian swimmer, has been engaging attention of late. Beaurepaire has been appointed 'a teacher of swimming under thr Victorian Education Department. In the rules of the International Swimming Federation, with which Australia is not yet" affiliated, it is provided that amateurs teaching elementary swimming in Sweden and Finland and receiving money grants therefore from either the country or the municipal authori- ■ ties of the city or two are still amateurs. Beaurepaire may, therefore, be still considered an amateur swimmer. Th council of tlie New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association has been engaged in revising the rules, and these will shortly be available for the various centres. The principal alterations are those wliich give effect to the representation of the life-saving ; centre on the local swimming centres, and the transference of the control of the humane portion of tlie Government to the various life-saving centres. .