to right: Bella Moore,
Jennie Fletcher, Annie
Spiers, Irene Steer.
Chaperone Clara Jarvis,
whose brother John Arthur
Jarvis won the first
Richmond to Blackfriars
race, stands behind.The 1908 Richmond
swimming race doesn’t
appear to have been
segregated, although the
winners were, as in this case
Smith came second, with the
‘lady’ winner I.B. Armstrong