Men like Harry B. Smith of the Portland Telegram, now of the San Francisco Chronicle; Will G. MacRae of the Oregonian, and John A. Horan of the new Journal were given a fairly free hand and highly in creased space to devote to all the developing sport activities. Historically most of these clubs were gentlemen's clubs with membership restricted to men. County clubs dare not take a decided line about cricket reform, lest a shortening of the game might diminish the gate-money, and professionals do not speak out because they are forced to bow the knee to Baal. Surrey clubs as were in those days wanted, and in these the amateur was able to take his part. The ambition of every player in these days is to reach such a measure of skill as to earn him a place in the picked eleven of England against Australia, and very properly is this the case.

In those days the window-seats were merely long boxes with lids, What is a billiards club used to store articles in. Gradually, the old basis for prejudice departed, and golf is recognized as one of the universal sports. You may play golf or tennis every day if you have the opportunity; but two or three hours is enough for this, and the rest of the time may be spent in the counting-house. Helena Thornfeldt vs. Ga-Young Kim (May 13, 2007). In-context commentary on rack 10 by pool pro Dawn Hopkins. The professional league baseball season opened on the home grounds yesterday afternoon with a game between Portland and Helena. This game, however, is not taken seriously in the United States; the Official Croquet Guide of Mr Charles Jacobus emphasizes "the ease with which the game can be established," since almost every country home has a grass plot, and "no elaboration is needed." The scientific game of croquet in the United States is known as "roque." Under this title a still greater departure from the English game has been elaborated on quite independent lines from those of the English Croquet Association since 1882, in which year the National Roque Association was formed.

George Gordon Meade (Honorary 1866) - major general in the United States Army. Timbs, John (1866). Clubs and Club Life in London. John A. Horan, who has been sporting editor of the Journal for more than four years past, has resigned the position in order to become business manager of the Portland Spectator. Hotch Potch Club - featured in John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga. Pickwick Club - A club founded by Mr. Samuel Pickwick to study human nature in Charles Dickens's first novel. He was hired for the News by Charles Whitehead, first city editor of that paper. Mr. Reed was on the News nearly five years, leaving December 3, 1887, to go on the Oregonian. In the issue of November 11, 1906 (Sunday) MacRae has several by-lined stories included in the two pages of sport news, gossip, and "pictures." The sport gossip was beginning to assume the form and style it was to have for a quarter of a century or more, carrying news heads, however. The Sunday Oregonian was giving a page of sports (page 26 in section three, in the issue of April 7, 1901 ) under the stock heading "In the Sporting World." Two single-column line cuts depicted, respectively, a sweet-faced girl in baggy bloomers poised to shoot a basketball at the hoop, and a conventional male athlete swinging upward from a trapeze.

In the same issue occurred a 300-word feature signed by Dr. Clarence True Wilson extolling football. In the case of rowing there seem to be dangers ahead, and perhaps in the world of football also. Whether this always will be the case appears to be doubtful. The Journal was the first paper in Oregon to devote a special department to sports, and Mr. Horan was its first editor. The track story told of the proposed trip north of the University of California athletes to meet the University of Oregon tracksters at Eugene and the University of Washington at Seattle. The brassie-swingers, as a matter of fact, were slow to get under way in this part of the country, although Oregon cities now rank near the top in their interest in this game and in the proficiency of their players. No doubt cricket was not in one sense the serious thing it is now. There were no carefully compiled and intolerably wearisome tables of statistics that drown one in these days; nevertheless there was just as much keenness for success, but championships and records did not constitute the summum honum; it was the genuine sport that was chiefly considered. This is a delicate and thorny subject, and it is almost, if not quite, impossible to avoid treading on corns; but the matter is a critical one for the welfare of the great game, and some clear understanding should be arrived at, and to attain this the public should know all the facts, that they may come to a right opinion.