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Charlton and Ryan
Form Up To Standard, Says Coach
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"RAMBLER"
DUDLEY HELLMR1CH. hon. secretary of the N.S.W. Association, does not
agree with the views of Gdstav Froelich that Charlton will not tome
back, and that he and Ryan are not up to Olympic standard.
"l^ROELICH is going on times made [
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last year, and Ryan has time to
equal them." savs the Sydney official,
-In the 400 metres championship of
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Europe held at Pens. Jean Tans was
beaten by Barany. of Hungary. in -it
Charlton has broken 5.0. and 1 expect j
Evan to do it. T1.i. does no. show that j
the Manlv pair have anything to tea!|
from the Europeans."
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"In the 1500 metres Hallassav. of Kun-'H
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fcary. won in 20 nun. 49 sec. Lnarlion,
when defeated by Arnc Borg at Amster-1
Bam, did the distance in 20 min. 2 3-5
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In 800 metres contests between Amea<ca
and Japan Makino finished third. I
Fakashi winning in 10.25. Now Charlton
look 10.32 for 880 vards—about five ya-ds I
longer than the metres. His time would
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1 —--V 1029—not much differ-
_ sure he is swimming
than ever now. It must be reered,
too. that the best Jap. times
ive been made in their home baths.
: not usually so successful away
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done by an Australian. I think we could
fret four for a half-mile relay who would
aver8ge 2.20 or aggregate 9.20. Take
three seconds off for the excess over 800
metres, end the time—S.17—would boat
bv 19 sees, the U.SA. Olympic figures.
...j m n k there is plenty of evidence,
despite the contention of Gustav Froelich.
that Charlton and Ryan are well up
to ^ympi^standard. ^ ^ ^
clalms of Bonnie Mealing, but. in addition.
1 consider Jean Cocks is next to
elene Maddison. the speediest over «
yards m the world, and is improving
^ ^ M>rje Braun to w h o m
Froelich refers, has not competed since
her marriage." . ' ,
Since Dud Helbnnch expressed these
views Moliic Mitchell threw 100 yards
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her ,n 150 without appearing unduly
distressed. The race between herself
and Jean Cocks in the ISO yards
championship at Coogee next Saturday
evening should be a thriller.
Best performanace amongst Sydney's
men swimmers on Saturday was Hans
Robertson's. In winning the 100 yards
championship of Northern Suburbs he
the title/ Spargo was also in recordbreaking
form in winning the 440 supremacy.
He. too, held the previous best
figures—5.22 3-5. These he reduced by
3 sec.
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