Downstream

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,