Jimmy Smy was bought as an inside forward who was to understudy the existing forwards with a view to taking over from them, but unfortunately, he never got the chance to forge a career at Spurs.
The locally born striker started with Lower Edmonton and then played as an amateur for Hampstead Town and represented Middlesex, the Football Association and the Athenian League and his side were top of the Athenian league when he signed for Tottenham in January 1929.
Smy played his first match
very soon after, but although he was at the club for two
years, he was used as a stand-in for Billy Cook and
never really established himself at Tottenham and did
not go on to have a career in the professional game.
After leaving White Hart Lane in 1931, Jimmy returned to
the non-league scene with the Kent team Sittingbourne
some three years later.
Jimmy Smy died in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in
September 1997