The Shanghat American School yon the Inter-school swimming championship title in the annual event which took place on Oct. 8 the Foreign ¥.M.C.A. pool, the wine ners scoring a total of 111 points, The Public & Thomas Hanbury School was second with a total of 85 points, and the Junior Boys Public School was third with 31 points, The American School proved outstanding in the senfor and intermediate classes, gaining the majority of their points these divisions whereas the Public Thomas Hanbury School returned the highest score in the junior class.
'Three inter-school records wore broken at the meeting, one of which also constitutes anew Shanghai championship record, if these marks fare regarded as official, 'T, Britton, the youthful American' School lad, and recent interport star, won the 90 yards free style in 249 seconds, which is even better than the present Shanghai mark. of 25 seconds made at the local championships. Britton also won the 100 yards tree style, being clocked at 59 seconds, this being comparatively slow to the Tocal record of 574 seconds, but a new inter-school record, 'The third Inter-school record to be broken was the 50 yards backstroke mark, In this race, E, Smith of the Junior Boys Publi School, and another Interport swimmer,' won the event in 329 seconds.
Another outstanding achievement {in the swimming contest was the win of J. Ballin the 200 ya. free style event over D. Smith the youthful interporter. Smith was regarded as a favourite, and "Ball's - performance was very creditable, Ime of 2 minutes 303 seconds, while ood, does of constitute a now record,
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