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16th Scouts win swim gala trophy

Morecambe Guardian 19 September 1958:

With 13 points, the highest total of the gala the 16th Lancaster Scout Troop won the Scout Trophy at the Lancaster and District Boy Scouts Association annual swimming gala in the Kingsway Baths, Lancaster, on Monday evening.

The 4th troop was second with 12 points.

In the cubs events the 31st Pack won the trophy with nine points and the 14th was runner up with five.  The seniors trophy was won by the 13th Troop who had ten points. Second with seven points was the 4th.

The scout championship was won by R. Edmondson of the 13th.

RESULTS

Cubs. Free style (8 to 9): 1. B. Parsonage 21st; 2. N. Rhodes 5th; 3. P Whitehead 31st. Nine and over: 1. D. Fagan 31st; 2. W. Fielding 14th; 3. D. Old Caton; All ages: 1. G. Bissett 32nd ; 2. D. Fagan 31st ; 3. W Fielding 14th.  

Novelty: 1. D. Fagan 31st; 2. P. White 14th; 3. P. Armitage 23rd.

Scouts, Breast stroke (11 to 12): 1. Corless 5th; 2. Shingler 16th; 3. T. Craig 14th. 13 to 14: 1. D. Lambert 4th: 2. M. Berryman 16th; 3. G. Corless 14th.

Free style (11 to 12) 1.  M. Cannon 14th; 2. G. Shingler 16th; 3. S. Lawson 12th.  13 to 14: 1. D. Lambert 4th; 2. P. Horn 13th; 3. Clark Carnforth.

Back stroke (11 to 12) : 1. G. Shingler 16th; 2. T. Craig 14th; 3. D. Metcalfe 21st.  13 to 14: 1. D. Lambert 4th; 2.  D. Hall 32nd; 3. M. Harris 24th.

Neat diving: 1. R. Bragan 4th; 2. M. Cannon 14th; 3. P. Harris 16th.

Squadron: 1. 16th; 2. 13th; 3. 32nd. 

Scout championship: 1. R. Edmondson 13th; 2. S. Moffat 4th; 3. M. Cannon 14th.

Seniors, breast stroke: 1. S. Moffat; 2. A. Metcalfe 21st. 3. D. Marsden 13th.

Back stroke: 1. R. Edmondson ; 2. S. Moffat : 3. Mack Carnforth.

Neat dive: 1. B. Kelly 13th; 2. Mack.

Squadron: 1. 13th; 2. 4th.