He wrote a regular sports column titled "Time Out", and frequently reported on baseball, ice hockey, curling, and Canadian football.

He helped establish the Canadian High School Curling Championships in 1951, and was the founding president of the Manitoba Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association in 1955.

Smith wrote the sports column "Time Out", and reported regularly on baseball, ice hockey, curling, and Canadian football.

[6] He established the "Spirit of Christmas Fund" within the Free Press sports department in 1971, as a means to help the less fortunate in Winnipeg.

[9] He was succeeded as sports editor by Hal Sigurdson,[8] who stated that Smith talked him into returning to Winnipeg from Vancouver to be his successor.

[11] Hal Sigurdson felt that Smith's writing style was fair, and that he kept personal feelings and news judgment separate.