the vexed question of
amateurism and
professionalism’. Eight or
nine other clubs immediately
followed suit and formed the
Amateur Swimming Union.
There then followed a
‘desperate struggle for
supremacy’ between the two,
but eventually they formed a
new organisation together and
in 1886 the ASA was founded
with a new code for the future
government of swimming,
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