With the growth of the European community in Taiping and other immigrants such as Chinese, Indians, Arabians and Indonesians, the demand for sport and recreation clubs. These are the clubs that were established during the 1880s.
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“Neighboring farmers and visitors at White Sulphur drove out occasionally to watch ‘those funny Scotchmen’ with amused superiority; when one member imported clubs from Scotland, they were held for three weeks by customs officials who could not believe that any game could be played with ‘such elongated blackjacks or implements of murder.’”
—For the State of West Virginia, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)