he played an important role in
the ASA and one of his later
feats was swimming from
Southsea in Portsmouth to
Ryde in the Isle of Wight, and
back.
Other races for men were
held at Putney in Victorian
times. In 1874 there was a
two-mile swimming
championship to
Hammersmith, won by E.T.
Jones from Leeds, ‘champion
swimmer of the world’, who
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