Sterrett argues that swimming belongs in every education and then teaches it step by step: the basic strokes, training for speed, touching and turning at the end of the bath, floating and the tricks of ornamental swimming. He has practical advice for all comers, observing that women and stout people learn to float more easily than slim men.
A compact early twentieth-century instruction book from the Spalding Athletic Library, of interest to swimmers and sports historians. Download the free EPUB.