early days of the club and for
thirty-seven years the office
of captain was decided by a
1,000-yard race at the Welsh
Harp, a reservoir in Hendon,
opened in 1835, and then,
after 1886, a one-mile at
Surbiton which continued
until 1905. The Otter summer
programme has always
included an open-air quarter-,
half- and one-mile race. The
quarter was originally held at
Shiplake; in 1888 it ran from
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