The first championship event of the evening to be run off was the men's 100 yards backstroke. Here four swimmers faced the starter with Tumsdaine going out ahead immediately from the word go and establishing a lead which he increased throughout the race, An interesting race for second place was seen between Ernie Smith and C. C. Wang the former coming up strongly at the end after the latter had been leading and taking second place. Lumsdaine's new time of 65% seconds is ĝ of a second better than the old mark of minal mer last year.
66% seconds set by this same pheno-
The four finalists in the 220 yards junior free style went off. together intine style and held level for the first three lengths. Butt started to take a lead and was out ahead of the others with Gregg and Stephan swimming level followed by Grebenchikoff slightly behind. Butt continued to increase his lead and Gregg, obviously not swimming in normal style, dropped out of the race leaving Butt to go ahead and win handsomely, with the others following. The time of 2 minutes 51 seconds is considerably slower than the record of 2 minutes 384 seconds set by Bobbie Hekking last year.
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