He was a crack shot, a good ball player and a man that could play a game of billiards that in those days was regarded as something wonderful for an amateur.
My love of sport, therefore, came to me naturally.

I inherited it, and if I have excelled in any particular branch it is because of my father's teachings.

He was a square sport, and one that had no use for anything that savored of crookedness.

There was nothing whatever of the Puritan in his makeup, and from my early youth he allowed me to participate in any sort of game that took my fancy.

He had no idea at that time of my ever becoming a professional.