Read the full-text online article and more details about "Swimming: Smith's Silver Provides Fitting British Fanfare ; WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Scottish Swimmer Takes Second Place as Australia's Hackett Scythes Seven Seconds off 1500m Record" by Parrack, James - The Independent (London, England), July...
He was still a young man at this point: he had been selected to run for the club in the Scottish Junior Cross Country Championships and the Senior Championships in 1901 and was still eligible for the Junior Championship in 1902 when he was selected to run in both events again. Incidentally...