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see the name plaque until I’m right at the front door. Thankfully I’m allowed in and I join James in the bar ...
believes the club was formed by members of Oxford and Cambridge university swimming clubs and the Otters incorp ...
murdered on the steps of the Adelphi Theatre, where he was performing, by an out-of- work actor who’d accus ...
members of the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA), having resigned from its predecessor, the Swimming Association ...
period, when only ‘gentlemen’ could afford to compete for honour rather than money. Until 1869 there had been l ...
defined a professional as anyone who competed for money prizes, wagers or admission money, or who ‘made the ar ...
then to the Metropolitan Swimming Association. But aside from lack of funds, the main problem was ‘the fr ...
and the history of the amateur movement. Its authors were William Henry (at one point vice-chair of the Reading Swimming ...
a ‘prize or honour only’, and in 1874 the group became the Swimming Association of Great Britain. But the b ...
the vexed question of amateurism and professionalism’. Eight or nine other clubs immediately followed suit ...
with no fewer than 135 rules. It was now accepted that an amateur could not swim against a professional a ...
seen as less ‘sportsmanlike’. But there was certainly money to be made. James Tyers, for example, a champion ...
professionals, noted Pearson’s Athletic Record. When Tyers wasn’t swimming he looked after a billiard room ...
the early presidents was a baths’ superintendent. We’re an eclectic club, for anyone who wants to swim.’ The reaso ...
early days of the club and for thirty-seven years the office of captain was decided by a 1,000-yard race at ...
a houseboat called the Otter, while in 1893 the course was from Shiplake Ferry to the Dabchick, a tradi ...
the winner received a gold cup, the most valuable of the club’s trophies. In 1921 the half-mile was hel ...
present day. One member went on to win gold in the 100 yards freestyle at the World Championships in 1906, ...
club in 1962 after leaving school. ‘I was brought up in Bombay and I swam competitively from the age of five. ...
arranged for Otter to come and swim against us at the school and later my mother wrote to ask if I could be ...
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