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necessary that a boy should
learn to swim as it was that he
should learn to write’. Club
members competed outside
Reading, winning prizes in
Luton, Southampton,
Basingstoke, Swindon and
London, as well as Life
Saving Society’s awards and
Royal Humane Society
medallions.
In 1901 the club was still
holding a water polo match
and races at the King’s