Long-distance Swimming:

Dave Wright, a 21-year-old Arts student who has finished third in the Hawke's Bay-Poverty Bay Centre long distance race and fourth in the Kapiti Island and return event, recently attempted to swim around Wellington Harbour.

The swim started from Seatoun wharf and was then to go to Eastbourne wharf, Somes Island and back to the floating dock, a distance of some 14 miles which it was hoped to cover in about seven and-a-half hours.

This was to be in preparation for an assault on Cook Strait.

However, owing to the choppy conditions, Dave was forced to pull out of his harbour training swim at Eastbourne wharf.

This probably means that he will not attempt the Cook Strait swim, for which he had logged up some 900 miles in training, until next summer.

Golf:

Rodney Barltrop, a 22-year-old Victoria University science student, won the Wel lington provincial stroke play championship held recently at Shandon.

In a scintillating display of golfing ability he scored two superlative 67's, five under the card, for a four-round total of 282.

The 1968 titleholder J. Durry (Paraparaumu Beach) finished second on 285.

Barltrop last year played for Manawatu - Wanganui in the Freyberg Rose Bowl, but this year in a calculated gamble, opted to try for the Wellington team.

This gamble has so far paid off handsomely.

• Last week's photo of Penny Haworth was printed by court-tesy of the "Dominion-Sunday Times"