included only one swimming
event, ‘the Canadian Canoe
Race’, in which competitors
had to stand and ‘paddle to
the ryepeck’, and then swim
back with their canoe. Other
mentions of the Thames at
Marlow tend to concern
drownings, such as the family
tragedy that occurred in July
1906 when a father and his
two sons, all accomplished
swimmers, went down to the
river. One of the sons sank
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