The Archive · 1928

Not at His Top Speed

The official record is held by Norman Ross of America with a time of 12 min, 38 2/5 sec, and Borg was hopeful of knocking a clear minute off that time, Ina conversation on Thursday the cham. pion owned to a slight strain of the left abdominal muscles in a kame of soccer the previous day; whether this affected him at all or whether the absence of any guide to the progress he was making was a factor, he could certainly have improved upon his own time and swam with a cert amount of re-

He swam with the American crawl stroke with a two-beat thrash Timwen-ttnins 17 se '2op yards race—Atne Borg defeated relay composed of Miss Vs Schmid, E:'Gotdman, Miss F. Schosid and Inter-School The Public School and the Shang-'American School tried conelusions at the YMCA. pool November 3, In the competi tion for those under 15 years of age the Public School won by 36 points to 15, while the American School by 38 points to 12 won in the section for those over that age.

'The annual autumn meeting of Ca, S.-C. which includes the ug of the annual classification eek way bald' ey Naveatere under very favourable weather ce ditions, For some years past "A' [Ca, has fired the T.M.C. in weather [which has been all against accurate shooting, so on this occasion members celebrated their good fortune ccording a high standard of scoring.

The average score for the 4% Jeards returned fr elasifeation was 130 per man, a very creditable re= sult, Competition, both in individual fand' team events, was particularly eon, scores being very close and prizes evenly distributed, The aggregate prize was won by Pie. Green who is heartily to be congratulated upon his well earned success; Sgt-Major Hodges once more proved his steadiness and ability by winning the grand rate for they ar against strong opposition This is a very pleasing WU. Wells-Henderson 149 Encarnacno 1611 100 yards he lowered the Shanghai and averaged 80 to 90 strokes a Details:—29 yards, free stsle—tst Mubards i toh oot fs likely to be the last company Ada Laws toan Glen Lochay ie Moller 158] in 59 seconds. At 200 yards his ace Mr, 5: V. Botelio's grey Mr. W..N. WW. Henderson 155 ie, We ILS. Davis 142 Ibs.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account