seen as less ‘sportsmanlike’.
But there was certainly
money to be made. James
Tyers, for example, a
champion swimmer who won
numerous ASA
championships and turned
professional in 1898,
travelled the country netting
‘a nice little sum’ in prize
money. The leading amateurs
of the time tended to have ‘no
regular business’ before
joining the ranks of the
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