The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-24
GRIGGS IS A SPORTSMAN
He is an Accomplished Horse
man, a skillful Angler, a
Crack Shot and an
Amateur Farmer.

Governor Griggs is more of a sports
man than any of his predecessors. He is
an expert snnis player, clever at golf,
and is rapidly becoming an expert al
curling. He is President of the Hamilton
Club of Paterson, which is soon to con-
struct a SIS, 900 club house. He visits the
club almost daily, frequently using its
parlors for conferences with friends from
distant points. He lunches there when in
Paterson, and occasionally devotes ar
hour to a game of chess or billiards. be-
ing fond of both, as well as whist and
pool. He is considered a good player of
all these games.
Governor Griggs is an excellent horse
man, an accomplishment which Governor
Werts and Governor Albeit were not pos
sessed of. Governor Werts never rode
a morse until he was elected Governor,
ana then he took lessons privately to
prepare for his frs review, and he
heayed a great sigh of relief when he ar
rived back at the Governors cottage and
was released from the stirrups, for
horseback riding was not in his line, par
ticularly with four or five thousand people
criticising the kink in his back.
Governor Griggs is a good amateur
potanist and more than an amateur far
mer. He was brought up on the farm,
and did everything that a farm boy would
90 who was considered one of the hired
nands. When he acquired his pretty
nome in Twenty-seventh street, in Pater-
son, he took up a good sized lot, so as
10 nave plenty of room to raise vegetables
Tor his own table. Nearly everything
that' is used in the green grocery line
comes from the Governors private beds.
which he attends to personally, both for
run and for the good physical results.
he started out very young to be a
sportsman. He shot birds when he was
a lad attending the Newton College IN
gstitute, where he prepared for Lafayette.
~ Grlggs farm was then about a mile
Newton, up in the Sussex hills. Senator
Johnson, of Bergen County, who was ore
Of MS associates, frequently went with
MN on cunning n fishing trips in their
OUNCE days. Governor Griggs makes
me poast that there is not a lake or pond
N sussex County whose exact location
ne does not know. He is well known also
IN warren County among the farmers,
Wao have met him during some Of his
running and fishing expeditions. Last
TALL he Was high boat on the Hackensack
Meadows, having shot more rail- birds
than any other gunner who waded out,
hahe I1opdtcOnS Tor black bass.
Tn Governor did not go to Virginia
Beach after election with a view of find
ing any better game than he would at
home, but he needed the seclusion and
particularly the rest from political ex-
element. He was rather pleased with
ms novel experience in getting to and
from the beach. 1t is twenty miles from
the railroad station, and the trip had TO
be made along the beach in a sprfngless
wagon for a distance of miles.
Much of, the time the wagon wheels
were covered to the hub with water.
President Harrison made the same trip,
and he facetiousiy made the observation
when the waves were dashing againsf
the body of the wagon that it was the
first time he had ever gone to sea in a
wagon.