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Rh in Portland, and therefore, almost certainly, in Oregon, was Henry E. Reed, still active as appraiser, broker, and all-around real-estate authority, who began his reporting career January 9, 1883, in the second week of the life of the Daily News. Mr. Reed was on the News nearly five years, leaving December 3, 1887, to go on the Oregonian. He was hired for the News by Charles Whitehead, first city editor of that paper.

On the Oregonian at about the same time Louis Levinson, brother of N. J. (Joe) Levinson, the city editor, was doing the baseball writing. In 1885 box scores appeared for the first time in their modern form in Portland papers. John Milliken was put on sports by the Oregonian at about that time, and it was he who was succeeded by Henry Reed when Reed went over to the Oregonian two years later.

Reed started the first real department of sports in Portland while on the Oregonian in 1888. He played up baseball, rowing, cricket, which had retained a considerable body of popularity; emphasized boxing, bicycle-racing, and horse-racing. Tennis had not yet become much of a sport feature in Oregon. While on the Oregonian Reed developed amateur baseball in the city, being the first sports writer on the Pacific Coast to play up this important branch of sport.

In the issue of November 11, 1906 (Sunday) MacRae has several by-lined stories included in the two pages of sport news, gossip, and "pictures." The sport gossip was beginning to assume the form and style it was to have for a quarter of a century or more, carrying news heads, however. Both stories and heads were conservatively written. Here's an example of how MacRae did it:

The conservative but action-filled modern headline finally had arrived and with certain improvements was to remain for many years. The summary beginning already standard in the regular news columns was breaking into the sport news, as the following lead will show: