Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

It was his brag that he could beat everybody at anything, but especially at fighting, and he once took on the manager of his club and worked him over thoroughly with his fists.

The greatest team of this period was unquestionably the New York Yankees, bought by brewery millions and made into a ball club by men named Ed Barrow and Miller Huggins.

He walked rapidly along the buildings scanning their facades: one was a club -- that was out ; ;

Skorich was considered the logical choice after the club gave Norm Van Brocklin permission to seek the head coaching job with the Minnesota Vikings, the newest National Football League entry.

When he was unable to bring about immediate expansion, he sought to convince another National League club to move here.

Since 1949, the only National League club that got off to a hot start and made a runaway of the race was the '55 Dodger team.

The club that overcame the worst start in a comparable period to win the pennant was New York's '51 Giants, who dropped 11 of their first 13.

At the 4th tee Palmer chose to hit a one-iron when a three-wood was the proper club, so he put the ball in a bunker in front of the green.

The Unitarian clergy were an exclusive club of cultivated gentlemen -- as the term was then understood in the Back Bay -- and Parker was definitely not a gentleman, either in theology or in manners.

That you have refused to drive him into the family business or push him into a profession so you can say at the club, `` Of course David has known since he was twelve he wanted to be an engineer '' -- or a lawyer, or an editor??

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

This was the last try to develop itself as a sports club rather than just a football team, such as Lomas, Belgrano and Quilmes had successfully done in the past, but the efforts were not enough.

Australian captain Herbie Collins was stripped of all captaincy positions down to club level, and some accused him of throwing the match.

Frederick Henry Hedge wrote of the group's nature: " There was no club in the strict sense ... only occasional meetings of like-minded men and women ".

The second Eta chapter of Phrateres, a non-exclusive, non-profit social-service club, was installed here in 1958.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

This was all done under complete secrecy during the playing season because players were all free agents in those days and they did not want their current club and especially the fans to know they were leaving to play elsewhere the next year.

The Cardinals were founded in 1898, and are the oldest continuously run professional American football club in the United States.

In 1900, when the club was founded, the emblem of Ajax was just a picture of an Ajax player.

Abergavenny is also the home of Abergavenny RFC, a rugby union club founded in 1875 who play at Bailey Park.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

The club was founded on September 23, 1845, as a social club for the upper middle classes of New York City, and was strictly amateur until it disbanded.

As a minority owner of the Milwaukee Braves, Selig founded the organization Teams, Inc, in an attempt to prevent the majority owners ( based out of Chicago ) from moving the club to a larger television market.

Aviron Bayonnais is the city's rugby union club, founded in 1904 and French champions three times, in 1913, 1934 and 1943.

The first Burns club, known as The Mother Club, was founded in Greenock in 1801 by merchants born in Ayrshire, some of whom had known Burns.

Gauss ordered a magnetic observatory to be built in the garden of the observatory, and with Weber founded the " Magnetischer Verein " ( magnetic club in German ), which supported measurements of Earth's magnetic field in many regions of the world.

One of the AL's eight charter franchises, the major league incarnation of the club was founded in Cleveland in.

The club played its first games in 1870 as the Chicago White Stockings and were founded professionally in 1876.

The Chicago club was founded in 1870 as the White Stockings and played a season in the National Association of Base Ball Players, where they won a championship, and five seasons in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players.

The club was founded on 9 June 1905, when a number of youth clubs in the southeast London area, including East Street Mission and Blundell Mission, combined to form Charlton Athletic.

One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League.

Women's field hockey was first played at British universities and schools, and the first club, Molesey Ladies, was founded in 1887.

* 1899 – Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur Iceland's first football club is founded.

The Servette FC, a football club founded in 1890 and named after a borough on the right bank of the Rhône.

The club, which was founded in 1986, was named in his honour after an incident in that summer's World Cup match between England and Paraguay.

* Verdi Football Club, an association football club founded in Parma in July 1913, is after a series of name changes known today as the Parma F. C ..

The Montagnards and the Girondins were both originally Jacobins, a political club which was founded according to republican beliefs and whose members wanted a French democratic republic.

By 1926, management of the club had passed on to a new generation of members, and it was through their efforts that Odd were finally admitted into the regional series in 1927, ten years after the club was founded.

“ It was called the Rattler Club when I got here in 1926, and I ’ m not sure how it got its nickname ,” he said, although his stories of the club members ’ antics and efforts to raise school spirit would certainly “ rattle ” some and “ shake ” up others.

He was also club captain in 1926 and 1927.

* Ox Ridge Hunt Club – On, the club hosts a popular annual horse show held since 1926.

The towns association football club, Mallow United Football Club, was founded in 1926 and fields senior, junior, schoolboy, and schoolgirl football teams in the Munster Leagues.

In the 1920s the club was considered an " entity of federal public utility " by Decree nº 5044 with date of October 28, 1926, published by the ( Brazilian government's official gazette ) on November 10, 1926, after having won their first international competition ( the Vulcain Cup ) in 1928.

In 1926 a local football club was established, called the Sprinkhanen (" Grasshoppers ").

1926 also saw the signing of George Kenneally, a rookie out of St. Bonaventure University, who earned all-pro status and was named team captain in just his second season, and would later become part owner of the club.

The 1926 season marked the beginning of their next reign of dominance as the club matched their own WCRFU record with seven consecutive western championships from 1926 to 1932.

The club was formed in 1896 and has won the famous Scottish Junior Cup on 4 occasions ( 1901 – 02, 1918 – 19, 1926 – 27, 1938 – 39 ).

In 1926 – 27, the club finished fifth and last in the new Canadian division.

The club met with immediate success, winning the Welsh National League Division One championship in 1926 – 27, ahead of and, and repeating the feat in 1929 – 30 having been pipped to the title by Connah ’ s Quay & Shotton 12 months earlier.

By 1926, it had become a custom at the Seven Seas Club in London to hold a shanty sing-along after the club ’ s monthly dinners.

The town's football team, Okehampton Argyle, is a non-league club which was established in 1926 after the original side, Okehampton Town, disbanded.

The main sports club is Fablok Chrzanów, founded in 1926 and sponsored by the locomotive company Fablok.

In the 1926 – 27 season the club got past the first round of the FA Cup only to be knocked out by Rhyl.

:" In response to your letter of December 1926, we are delighted that your esteemed club wants to take on our white-red national colours.

Following the arrival of new manager Ted Davison in 1926 and chairman Harold Shentall in 1928, the club won the Third Division North title in the 1930 – 31 season with an 8 – 1 victory over Gateshead on the final day, and were promoted to the Second Division.

In 1926 Rovers home ground, the Lawn Ground, was officially enclosed and a decade later the committee members at the club bought the field for £ 120 at an auction.

In 1926 / 27 the club finished 6th out of 29 but managed to beat a touring New Zealand side 20-15.