Downstream

‘swimming Derby’ from
Richmond now received £100
and a gold cup. Forty-nine
people started the race, and
this time fourteen of them
were women. Among these,
and of particular interest to
the American press, was
sixteen-year-old Elsie
Aykroyd (sometimes spelled
as Akroyd), ‘the New
England lady amateur, who
by a fine burst of speed at the
start led the field in the early