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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 22, 1938.

European Swimming Titles

U.S. SWIMMERS ESTABLISH NEW WORLD RECORD

WIN 4 X 100 METRES

RELAY v. EUROPE

Seventeen-Year-Old Danish Girl Takes 100 Metres Free Style

BRITAIN'S TWO QUALIFIERS FOR 440 SEMI-FINALS

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(By AIR MAIL)

London, August 11.

INTEREST in the European Swimming Champion- ships at the Empire Pool, Wembley, was centred Berlin, To-day last night on the women's 100 metres free style fin- In the International swimming al and the heats of the men's 400 metres free style meeting which is being held here

United event. No British swimmer managed to reach the States, the American 4 x 100 women's final, but in the men's competition Bri- metres relay team comprising tain's hopes rested on Norman Wainwright and Ralph Flanagan, Paul Wolff,

between Europe and the

Takashihi Hirose and Otto Jaretz K. R. H. Deane.

on Saturday established a new The only event decided in the early session was a water polo world record for the event clock-match in which Italy and France drew at one goal,each. This gave ing 3 mins. 59 2-10 secs. The for- Italy their first point of the series.

was 4 mins. 0 2-10 secs.

mer world mark which also stood Danish women filled the first two places in the final of the to the credit of an American team women's 100 metres free style, which was won by Miss R. Hveger, aged 17, and holder of ten world's records. Miss Hveger set up new The Europe team was represent-championship figures with 66.2 secs., and her compatriot, Birthe ed by H. Heibel (Germany), S. Ove-Petersen, who finished second, also beat the 1934 record of 67.1 Korosi (Hungary), F. Dove (Great secs. by Willi Den Ouden (Holland). Britain) and K. Hoving. (Holland). -Reuter.

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The race provided an exciting, mummmmm/334148||||ŸŸÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ¶¶ duel between Miss Hveger and

EUROPE v. AMERICA BRITISH EMPIRE Miss Ove-Petersen, and it

not until 25 yards from the fin- BEAT PORTUGAL ish that the world record holder

The British Empire defeated Por- managed to get ahead. tugal in the Semi-final Round of BRITAIN'S QUALIFIERS the Mamak International Baseball

Britain's two representatives. Tournament, at Caroline Hill yes- terday, by 9 runs to 7, and thus Norman Wainwright, the 440 yards qualify to meet China in the final champion, and K. R. H. Deane, both. next Sunday, at 9.30 a.m.

qualified for the semi-finals of the Muir, for the British Empire, hit men's 400 metres free style. Wain- a home run when he sent the ball wright.won his heat in 5 mins 6.8 through centre field.

secs, and Deane finished second to In a friendly game the U.S.S.Tallis (France.) Sacramento beat a local nine by 9 B. Borg (Sweden) created a new runs to 5.....

championship record in winning his

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AT SWIMMING

F. Dove Chosen For Men's Relay Race

London, August 13. (By Air Mail.)

COOPER AND MARTIN IN BIG STAND

Cricket Close Of Play Scores

London, To-day.

The following were the close of play scores in the County matches which commenced last Saturday:-

At Taunton:-Somerset 357 (Lee 141)

v. Surrey 3 for 0.

At Cardiff:-Glamorgan 281 for 3 v.

Leicestershire.

At Newport:-Northants 195 (Herman

6 for 08) v. Hants 49 for 4. At Manchester-Lancashire 273 (Bar- nett 5 for 68) v. Gloucestershire 133 for 3.

At

At

Nottingham:--Yorkshire 320 . (Sut-” cliffe 100) v. Notts.

Eastbourne: Sussex 279 (John Langridge 114; A. Pope 6 for 48) v. Derby 56. for 2.

At Dudley:-Worcestershire 414 for 3 (Cooper 186 not out Martin 104 not out) v. Warwickshire.

-Reuter.

THE FIRST GREENKEEPER TO HOLD HIS

Freddie Dove, English sprint TEE SHOT

champion, is one of four competi- tors who have been chosen to re- present Europe in the men's re- lay (4 by 100 metres) against America, in the international swimming contest in Berlin on August 20 and 21.

The others are-K. Hoving (Holland), S. Korosi (Hungary), and H. Heibel (Germany), R6- serve, H. Fischer (Germany).

- Nákache (Fance) has already been selected for the 100 metres back stroke in the medley relay. There are three others yot to be named.

[The United States won the relay and at the same time ostablished a new world record, seo cabled news.-Sports Ed.]

heat in 4 mins 52 secs, beating the previous best by 3.5 secs, made by J. Taris (France.) W. Plath (Ger- many), who finished second. to Borg, also got inside Taris's figures. |

THIRD DEFEAT

(By AIR MAIL)”.

London, August 11. For the first time in the history of the Golf Greenkeepers' 'Associa- tion tournament, instituted more than 30 years ago, a competitor ac- complished a hole in 1 at Birkdale, Southport, yesterday.

F. Sunderland, North Middlesex, holed his tee shot at the thirteenth, which measures 202 yards, but his total score was 93, and he was out of the running for a chief award:

The senior event was won by D. R. Fish, Woodbridge (handicap 4), who had a second round of 78 net, and completed an aggregate of 148, which was 5 strokes ahead of the runner-up, G. Hart, Gay Hill.

J. Marshall, Irvine, had à total of 157.

66.8

Britain suffered their third suc-2. B. Ove-Petersen (Denmark), cessive defeat in the water polo con- secs; 3, R. Van Veen (Holland), 08.4 secs; 4 G. J. Malcorps (Holland), 69.6 tests, losing to Belgium by seven seca; 5. I. Acs (Hungary), 69.9 seca; goals to two. R. Sutton (Britair:)|0, A. D. Hirsch (Norway), 71.4 seca. scored the most spectacular goal yet 400 METRES FREE STYLE-MEN seen in the series. Completely submerged, but in possession of the ball, Sutton took a blind aim for the goal; and the ball landed at the back of the net.

(Qualifiers for semi-finals) Heat One-1. N. Wainwright (Great Britain), 5 mins 6.8 secs; 2, H. Arendt (Germany), 5 mins 7.8 secs; 8, W. Gajary-Kuhinka (Hungary), 5 mins 8.2

gecs.

Heat Two-1, B. Borg (Sweden), Seventeen-year-old Betty Slade, many), 4 mins 55.2 secs; 3, E. Grof English spring-board champion, oc- (Hungary), 5 mins 2 secs. cupied fourth position at the end of mins 4.1 secs; 2 K. R. H. Deane Heat Three-1, Talli (France), 5

the compulsory dives in the spring-| (Great Britain), 6 mins 10.8 secs; 3, board event. Miss Slade would O. Tandberg (Norway), 5 mins 21 |probably have done even better had secs.

her attention not been distracted by

a moving spectator while she was on half

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RESULTS

P. A. Petersen (Denmark) qualified as fastest fourth.

WATER POLÒ Belgium, 7 goals; Great Britain, Germany, 8 goals: Holland, 2,

WOMEN'S SPRING-BOÅRD

DIVING

-Leading positions at end of com- pulsory dives:-1, G. Daumerlang (Germany):48.6 points; 8, 8. Heinse (Germany), 46.7 points; 8, E. Child (Great Britain), 45.18 points; B. Blade (Great Britain), 44,84 points; Final-1, R... Hveger (Denmark), 6,5M. Hellkenskföld (Sweden), 41.88 66.2 seca (new championship record); pointer

100 METRES FREE STYLE

-WOMEN-