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with no fewer than 135 rules.
It was now accepted that an
amateur could not swim
against a professional and the
authors of The Badminton
Library volume were happy
to record that ‘the tone of the
sport has vastly improved’.
The amateur movement
would come to control the
sport, as in the United States,
the ASA set the rules when it
came to competing and those
who swam for money were