Official reconstructed replay · 1900-01-08
Cavill wins the mile by 27.8 seconds
C&D game used: ASN Swimming · custom ASN game
One-mile Australasian Championship · Farmer’s Baths · Domain / Woolloomooloo
Dick Cavill wins by 27.8 seconds
Dick Cavill wins in 26:50.0. T. Maynard is second, 27.8 seconds behind, with Bond third. The five-swimmer final is a disclosed reconstruction, including Hamilton’s Estimated participation.
Final result
| Place | Swimmer | Affiliation | Entry | Replay time* | Gap | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dick Cavill | Otter | Documented | 26:50.0 | — | Final |
| 2 | T. Maynard | Geelong West | Documented | 27:17.8 | +27.8s | Final |
| 3 | Bond | Not recovered | Documented | 27:42.3 | +52.3s | Final |
| 4 | Smith (mile report) | Not recovered | Documented | 28:00.2 | +70.2s | Final |
| 5 | Hamilton | Not recovered | Estimated | 28:08.4 | +78.4s | Final |
Reconstruction and source coverage
Date evidence: Confirmed
- This is a user-approved historical reconstruction. Complete historical starter lists remain unavailable; Estimated event participation and heat draws are disclosed and are not verified historical appearances.
- All ability inputs are neutral estimates. Model times and plunge distances are experimental replay outputs, not calibrated historical predictions or all-time records.
- Replay outcomes determine heat qualification and winners. Historical placings and eliminations are source evidence, never forced replay outcomes.
- The plunge uses a separate estimated best-distance contest. Its attempt count and countback are ASN rules; the original local regulations are unavailable.
- Unresolved names and affiliations remain unresolved. All swimmer record groups are event-scoped; no namesake or Lyttelton career merge is asserted.
- The quarter-mile date is provisional from a later scholarly chronology. The January 12 half-mile and January 13 220-yard dates remain qualified working dates. Universal date stays January 10.
*Experimental model times; these are not verified historical race times.
Historical sources
- Argus, 9 January 1900, p.9 · Indexed Monday-night mile report
- Swimming Queensland, Tim Barrett research Part 1; January 1900 clippings · Indexed transcriptions of abbreviated contemporary reports; original scans not visually checked
- Rachel Winterton, For Duty and Pleasure, 2005, pp.25–26 · Later scholarly chronology; half-mile dating conflicts with contemporary dispatch