Outing . , who now resides in holders of the presidential chair insucceeding years are all living, hale andhearty, and it would be safe to wagerthat half of them are upon the bowlinggreen as we write : PRESIDENTS. 1875-7 J. Lamond Smith,1877-9 W- Ramsay,1S80-1 W. F. Davison, VICE-PRESIDENTS. T. McCraken,T. G. P. R. H. Bethune. 1881-2 T. McCraken, .1882-3 D. McEvven, .1883-4 W. G. P. Cassels,1884-5 R- Jaffray, . .1885-6 Walter Taylor,1886-7 C. C. Dalton, .1887-8 D. R. Wilkie, .
Outing . , who now resides in holders of the presidential chair insucceeding years are all living, hale andhearty, and it would be safe to wagerthat half of them are upon the bowlinggreen as we write : PRESIDENTS. 1875-7 J. Lamond Smith,1877-9 W- Ramsay,1S80-1 W. F. Davison, VICE-PRESIDENTS. T. McCraken,T. G. P. R. H. Bethune. 1881-2 T. McCraken, .1882-3 D. McEvven, .1883-4 W. G. P. Cassels,1884-5 R- Jaffray, . .1885-6 Walter Taylor,1886-7 C. C. Dalton, .1887-8 D. R. Wilkie, .i888-g James Hedley, The board of directors of the proprie-tary body is composed of Mr. R. K. Bur-gess, president; Mr. C. C. Dalton, vice-president ; and Messrs. Walter Taylor,W. G. P. Cassels, R. Jaffray, James Hedley,D. R. Wilkie, Dr. James Carlyle and Osier, directors ; Wm. Badenach, secre-tary. The managing committee, to lookafter the internal—and external—affairs THE TORONTO GRANITE CLUB. ZZ. 34 OUTING FOR OCTOBER. of the club, consists of Messrs. Burgess,Dalton and Hedley. Mr. Walter Gibbs isresident secretary. An acre of level turf, such as that in therear of the club house, is an unfailingtemptation to outdoor sports, such aslawn tennis, bowls, croquet and for all these games were pro-cured in 1882 and they were all played,not perhaps regularly or at first veryskillfully. At this time the summersports were open indiscriminately to allmembers, who should pay a small extrafee. As the taste for these pastimesgrew among the club members, therearose a desire for organization and thencame also a wish to excel. Accordinglythere was formed, in 1884, the GraniteLawn Tennis Club, and Harry Suckling,now of Montreal, was its first do not find a record of officers until1885, on May 2 in which year a meetingwas held, with twenty members first a committee of six was appointedas sufficient to conduct its affairs, and thisconsisted in 18
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