Ducks introduce “The Donny”
ONE of the finest of the Dubbo Veteran’s Swimming Club will be honoured this Sunday when the Ducks swim for the first “Donny”.
Don Attenborough and wife Betty were long-serving members of the club until Don’s death two years ago. The man who grew up in Molong joined the club with classmate Matt Dover when the pair moved to Dubbo.
Ducks old and new gathered to celebrate Donny’s 90th in 2020. They flocked around to hear his stories of fishing in the Northern Territory and yarns about life in the bush.
Ducks’ life member Judy Walsh is a great friend of Don and Betty.
“The event is the Don Attenborough Trophy race, a 4 x 25 metre Freestyle relay. Teams will be drawn out of the hat and the winners will be the combination that swims closest to their combined times.
“Don was such a valued member of the Ducks, a real treasure, and it would be great to have a good roll up to remember the very generous man and his delightful wife Betty.”
In last Sunday’s swim, Tom Gray had a bit of hard luck when he put in a big effort in the final of 25m Freestyle only to stop the clock -0.84 seconds early. This allowed slow and steady Henry Willcockson on +0.25 to collect the points from John Wherritt (+0.66).
Henry and Tom partnered in the 2 x 25m Breaststroke/breaststroke but this time both broke their time. So did the secondto-touch pair Rob Rich and Lucy Taylor allowing Glen Smith and Marg Ross to claim the win.
Jacob Pearce (+0.12) took out the closest to time 75 metre Freestyle from Judy Walsh (+0.66) and Nicole Johnstone (+0.81).
Lucy Taylor had something to crow about after claiming the points in the closest to time 25m Backstroke on (+0.37) from Marg Ross (+0.41)
“It was good to have Lucy back on the pool deck again. Always enjoy having our friendly nursing sister joining the Ducks in the pool. Her mum and dad have been regulars and introduced the young Lucy to us many years ago,” Judy smiled.