SWIMMING.
A GISBORNE BOY LOWERS NEW ZEALAND# STANDARD RECORD.
[By Telegraph—Press Association.] Wanganui, last nighl
Swimming sports were held in tbe Corporation baths on Saturday. R. C. Murphy, a lad of 18, beat the New Zealand standard for 100yds by 4-ssec, doing the distance in 64 l-ssec. He equalled the standard in the 220yds, his time being 2min 50sec.
Napier, last nighl
The first Schools’ Championship for the Hawke’s Bay centre, under the auspices of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association, was held on Saturday and today, the distances being 25, 00, 75, and 100yds. N. McCartney, a lad of eleven years, and S. Swan, fourteen years, tied with eleven points, two firsts, a second, and a third each, and in the swim-off McCartney won.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 854, 31 March 1903, Page 2
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125SWIMMING. Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 854, 31 March 1903, Page 2
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