had recently won the mile
championship in the
Serpentine. Two years later
Jones again raced the same
Thames course and won, this
time against another famed
swimmer, J.B. Johnson, for a
cup ‘instituted by the
Serpentine Club, which
represents the championship
of England’ with a ‘hundred
pound aside bet’. The press
reported thousands assembled
on the towpath and bridge,
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