Downstream

Thames swimming clubs its
fortunes were mixed and ‘the
attendance was decidedly
meagre’. There was a Boys’
Race, a 100 Yards
Championship of Reading, a
Plato Diving Competition –
‘an exceedingly interesting
event’ – and a Two Widths’
Blindfold Handicap for club
members which ‘produced
much merriment, the
swimmers taking nearly every
direction but the right one’.