Downstream

ladies’ – as swimmers
competed for four prizes
offered by an Ilex club
member for a three-quarter-
mile handicap. Twenty-three
men took part, starting at 6
p.m. on a barge moored
above the Hampton ferry,
swimming downstream to a
flagstaff opposite the
headquarters of the Molesey
Boat Club. It was won by the
aptly named Mr Leader who
‘had all the race to himself’.