JO LARGE gallery of spectators witnessed some close racing at the Cercle Sportif Francais last night when five Shanghai Championships together with a number of Club events were suc-run off. The outstanding victory of the evening was that of Mule. Colette Meadmore who defeated a large field to win the ladies' 50 yards free style Shanghai championship in 303/5 second, exactly one second over the existing championship record set by Miss Jacqueline Ball.
Jack Lumsdaine, Shanghai's backstroke champion provided the sensation of the evening when he won the 880 yards men's free style championship swimming the whole distance with the back-[stroke. This is unique in the annals of Shanghai swimming history, and as one spectator remarked would qualify for one of Mr. [Ripley's collection of anecdotes. Lumsdaine's time of 13 minutes 16 2/5 seconds is considerably over the old record of 12 minutes 5 seconds 3/5 set by Don Smith, but is nevertheless very good lo for a backstroke swimmer.
Lumsdaine created another sur-lead from the start and won comfortably, from a large field. The race for second place was very close and all three swimmers in the run-
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