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a ‘prize or honour only’, and
in 1874 the group became the
Swimming Association of
Great Britain. But the
bickering continued and
‘wordy warfares’ meant the
‘better-class clubs held aloof
from the association’. The
professionals formed their
own group, but this soon
collapsed. By 1884 the Otter
Swimming Club had had
enough and resigned ‘in
consequence of a dispute on