Fresh from their suceemul American tour the members of the Chariton Hard Luck for S'hai Swimmers Hardest hit of all sporting bodies in Shanghai by the advent of local hostilities, the Amateur Swimming Association has seen its championship season come and go with all save one of its title fixtures swept from the board.
"I cannot see any chance -of completing the fixtures," said the president, Mr. John Huxley yesterday, "although we have had no committee meeting definitely to decide the position. All the championship competitors are now out of condition and many of them have left Shanghai. Ernie Smith is in Hongkong and others are in Manila. Don Smith left for America last month and I think Britton has already left for the States."
Mr: Huxley remarked that it was singularly unfortunate that the programme had to be abandoned, especially on account of the Interport with Hongkong. "I do not think we have ever had better material to pick from; I rather think we would have had Hongkong in the bag," he observed.
The little band of champions for 1937 consist of:—Miss S.
Brabner, women's sprint; Miss V. Dodd, 50 yds. women's breast-stroke; Logan, 100 yds. backstroke. (record); J. Figueredo, junior 220 free-style; A. J. Gavriloft, 220 open free-style (record).
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