The Thames club won the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta in 1923,[2] but only four members of that victorious crew, Ian Fairbairn, Godwin himself, Arthur Long, and Charles Rew, were present at the Paris Olympics.
[3] Godwin was again part of the Thames club team when they won the Grand Challenge Cup in 1927.
He and his sister Phyllis created a stage show that included their "Live Marionettes".
The illusion made for the appearance of tiny people with puppet bodies but real heads and faces (played by Jack and Phyllis).
Jack appeared on early British television broadcasts in the era of John Logie Baird as a conjurer.