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of the Kingston Ladies Club.
Overall, fifty-seven people
started the race, only eighteen
finished (of which, it appears,
six were women), and Jarvis
won the men’s race, fighting
off competitors from Holland,
Belgium and France.
As with her successors
Eileen Lee and Ivy Hawke,
Smith was an established
long-distance swimmer; that
same year she swam sixteen
miles in the Channel, and a