Sporting Classics Digital

March April 2015

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S P O R T I N G C L A S S I C S 1 3 4 Our Kind Of President Grover Cleveland didn't allow the entanglements of presidential politics to interfere with hunting and fishing. By Worth Mathewson Not many years ago, while residing in a non-sporting but delightfully cultured and refined community, I found that considerable indignation had been aroused among certain good neighbors and friends, because it had been said of me that I was willing to associate in the field with any loafer who was the owner of a dog and gun . . . I sadly reflected how their dispositions might have been sweetened and their lives made happier if they had yielded something to the particular type of frivolity which they deplored. — Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th US President, from his book, Fishing & Shooting Sketches S P O R T I N G C L A S S I C S 1 3 4 BUreaU of enGravinG and PrintinG/WikiPedia PUBliC domain

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