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H. J. P. GOOD 



H.I. p. (iOOI) is the oldest sporting editor in active work in Toronto to-day. 

 Coming from England forty years ago, he attached himself to the Canadian 

 News and Puhlisliing Co.. and had not been in Canada two months before 

 he edited the Eclectic Mtu/azinc. a publication that at that time had considerable circu- 

 lation in the Dominion. From the Canadian News and Publishing Co. he graduated 

 to the Ddili/ Telegraph, a morning paper 

 then publislied by the jjresent proprietor of 

 the Ereiiiiu/ Telegram. From there at the 

 starting of the Mail in 187'-2 he joined the 

 staff of that paper, on which he filled 

 various [)ositions. Finally, in 1874. he 

 established the first sporting page known 

 to the daily papers in all America. ]\Ir. 

 Good was in reality the first man on this 

 continent to be sporting editor of a daily 

 paper. Up to the time that he originated 

 the classification of sporting matter, it 

 was customary to publish such informa- 

 tion as ordinary news on any column 

 that it hajjpened to fit. Even the big- 

 New York dailies did not at that time 

 classify the sporting news; so that to Mr. 

 CtooiI must be "iven the credit of inauii- 

 urating a system that has now become 

 world-wide. For many years he con- 

 tinued to be sporting editor of the Mail. 

 and then became attached to the JFor/c/. 

 From that pa])er he returned to the 

 Mail, and in 1887 became a member of 

 the Empire staft' at its initiat-'on. From 

 the Empire he l)ecame editor of the 



Toronto Siiiidaii World, a position he held until two oi 



he was appointed permanent press agent of the Industrial Exhibition. He, how 

 ever, still writes for various publications, and still contributes a whole page on the 

 horse and turf matters to the Sundai/ World under his well-know n iiom-de-plume of 

 "Pop." 



H. J. P. Good 



in>e vears ago. when 



