The Japanese swimming team easily won the International. Swimming Contest which was concluded at the Civie Centre pool on August 9 before large crowd. Japan scored a total
gain second place, Europe and China of 86 polo, Ameria taking' 28 for third place with 12 each, and Great Britain, last year's winner only scored 6 points, Four, records were broken in the races held on Aug. 8. NI Matsushita, the Japanese champion and the star Of the evening's performances, won both 200 and 800 metre events in record breaking time, and easily outclassed the comparative times of the existing Shanghai records for the 220 and 880 yard events, 'T. Britton of the American team furnished yet a other record in the 60 metre free style when he set up a new mark of 28-2/6 seconds, which is 2/5 seconds better than the existing record made the same pool by the same swimmer last year. In the 100 metre breast stroke event, the Japanese supplied yet another record breaker Kawajirl, who was clocked fat 1 minute 26 2/5 seconds.
'M, Matsushita's time for the 200 metre free style was 2 minutes and 29 seconds, and he was clocked at 11 minutes 27 1/5 seconds for the 800 metres free style.
'M, Matsushita capped his performances by a magnificent display in the 400 metres free style, which he won in the record breaking time of 5 minutes 28 3/5 seconds. Noel Hammond's Shanghai record for the 440 yards stands at 5 minutes 46° 2/5 seconds, so the Japanese performer's time shows how much superior he Is te local swimmers, Tommy Britton equalled his record breaking performance of the previous evening when he won the 50 metres reo style and was clocked at 28 2/5 scends, Mihawaki of the Japanese team taking second place just ahead of T. Gavrlloff of the European team, Europe:—E, Multemelr, A. Abdirkin, Oliveira, if, Park, S'Starkovaky, Britain:—J. Palmer, J, W. Dearn, J. Lews. A. Wogstait, C. Smuth, stulbert, Smith,
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