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a president and a secretary, with one or two active 

 helpers from the scanty membership. The sec- 

 retary does most of the management. Even the 

 championship clubs lack stability and coherence. 

 In 1902, for the American Championship Associ- 

 ation, Mr. James Pease of Chicago paid a large 

 part of the winnings out of his private means. In 

 1903 the stake fell through altogether. I have 

 heard that the National Championship Club costs 

 Mr. Hermxan Duryea $1000 a year as a personal 

 contribution. The Eastern Club has always been 

 the strongest of the field trial clubs, but in its 

 early days it consisted chiefly of Messrs. James L. 

 Breese, Pierre Lorillard, and a few of their New 

 York friends. Mr. Lorillard is still active, with 

 Mr. George Crocker and three or four more as 

 his dependable associates. Some time, it is fair 

 to assume, the field trial clubs will be better 

 organized and consolidated, with reliably good 

 grounds and systematic management. 



Somebody might compile a key to the relative 

 meanings of adjectives applied to sporting per- 

 formers. It is human nature to connect a word 

 with its significance in ordinary affairs. When 

 they read that a race-horse is slow, a " dog," or 

 an " ice-wagon," people cannot always remember 

 that the comparison is with the greatest winners 

 and not with common private stock. Nor can 

 they grasp the fact that every horse on that 



