Downstream

blowing ‘kisses to spectators
on the way’. The Morning
Post reported, ‘Swimming
Feat by a Female’, and noted
that her time was ‘remarkably
fast’. The object was to
‘decide a wager of £80 to £40
laid against her by Mr Baylis,
the money being deposited
with Bell’s Life’ a weekly
sporting paper: ‘the event
created a great deal of
excitement . . . a perfect
swarm of boats accompanied,