Downstream

distance diving race, a hurdle
race and a 50-yard race open
only to the ‘pupils of Harvey,
the University water bailiff,
an old and valued servant of
the University’. In 1890 the
Oxford University Boat Club
agreed members had to have
a certificate from the Merton
Street Baths proving that they
had swum ‘twice the length
fully dressed’, the Oxford
University Swimming Club
was formed, and by the early