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"The A. R. Bowman Memorial Museum is a local history museum in Prineville, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1971, the museum is housed in the old Crook County Bank Building which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The museum is run by the Crook County Historical Society and highlights the history of Crook County and central Oregon. Its collection includes many original pioneer artifacts, a large railroad exhibit, ranching and timber industry displays, furniture, garments, and historic photographs. The museum also has a research library. Arthur Bowman The museum is named after Arthur Ray Bowman, a Prineville businessman and civic leader. Bowman was born in Kansas and came to Prineville in 1910 after receiving a law degree from the University of Washington. He established a successful title and insurance company in Prineville the county seat of Crook County. Bowman was active in civic affairs throughout his life. He served as the County Judge for Crook County from 1936 to 1942. He also helped establish the Ochoco Irrigation District and the Prineville Airport. Bowman helped bring U.S. Highway 26 through Crook County. He was particularly interested in the construction of the Prineville Dam on the Crooked River. Because of his dedication to the project, the dam was renamed the Arthur R. Bowman Dam in his honor. He died in 1970, leaving a legacy of business success and civic responsibility."Arthur Ray Bowman" , A. R. Bowman Memorial Museum, Prineville Historical Society, Prineville, Oregon, 2008. In 1971, Bowman's wife and two daughters donated the Crook County Bank building to Crook County for use as a museum. At that time, the Crook County Historical Society assumed the responsibility of operating the A. R. Bowman Memorial Museum through a contractual agreement with Crook County."Crook County Historical Society" , A. R. Bowman Memorial Museum, Prineville Historical Society, Prineville, Oregon, 2008. Historic building The museum is housed in the historic Crook County Bank building. The building was constructed in 1910. It is a two-story Romanesque style building constructed using stone blocks from a local quarry located west of the Ochoco Viewpoint. This is the same quarry that provided the stone used to build the Crook County Courthouse in 1909."Bowman Museum" , A. R. Bowman Memorial Museum, Prineville Historical Society, Prineville, Oregon, 2008."Welcome to A.R. Bowman Memorial Bowman", A. R. Bowman Memorial Museum, Prineville Historical Society, Prineville, Oregon, 2008. The building's interior has not significantly changed since it was a community bank. The first floor still has the bank's original bronze teller cages, marble counter tops, etched art-glass, gilt and alabaster chandeliers, and the mahogany paneling that were the trappings of a prestigious banking institution in the first half of the 20th century. The building was first occupied by the Crook County Bank. When the Crook County Bank left in 1923, it was replaced by the Bank of Prineville and later the Prineville National Bank. When that bank became insolvent during the Great Depression, the building was purchased by A. R. Bowman for his title and insurance business. Bowman used the building for his various businesses from 1935 until his death in 1970."Walking Tour" , Prineville Crook County Chamber of Commerce, www.visitprineville.com, Prineville, Oregon, 2008. The bank is an excellent example of Prineville's early 20th century development. Because of its unique architecture and its importance to the history of Prineville, the Crook County Bank Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 19 June 1991."Crook County Bank Building", National Register of Historic Places, www.nationalregisterofhistoricalplaces.com, 18 February 2008. Museum exhibits The museum is run by the Crook County Historical Society and highlights the history of Crook County and central Oregon. The building's original bank interior has been maintained and is utilized in the museum's floor plan. There are major sections on local industry, transportation, and military history. On the first floor is the Hall of History, which highlights Crook County's past. This includes exhibits on the City of Prineville Railroad, the local timber industry and United States Forest Service as well as pioneer furniture, garments, tools, and other artifacts. There are also many photographs of Crook County people, local landmarks, and historic event. The museum's displays include the bank's original teller cages with their marble counters and elegant woodwork. Museum visitors can look inside bank's safe and see old ledgers and other documents on display."Welcome to Bowman Museum" , A.R. Bowman Memorial Museum, Prineville Historical Society, Prineville, Oregon, 2008. The second floor rooms include a ranch tack room, an old-time bedroom, a dining room, a re-creation of the old Paulina store and post office, and exhibits of early medical and dental equipment. The museum's research library is also located on the second floor. The museum's research room contains approximately 700 reference books on Oregon history. Researchers can investigate the local timber industry, the Crook County range war between cattlemen and sheepherders, the Lost Meek Wagon Train, and many other subjects. The museum's gift shop has books on local history as well as souvenirs. In 1980, the Crook County Historical Society was offered a 1907 Studebaker Phaeton along with some old farm equipment. However, there was no place in the museum to house the vehicle and the large artifacts. As a result, the Society established a building fund to raise money for another building. In 1987, a museum annex was constructed at the Crook County fairgrounds. The building is owned by Crook County, but is operated by the Crook County Historical Society in the same manner as the main Bowman Museum. In 1996, the Bowman Museum hosted a Smithsonian traveling exhibit called Barn Again. That was the first time a traveling Smithsonian exhibit was shown in central Oregon. In 1997, the museum was awarded a general operating support grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, an independent agency of the United States Federal Government. That was a significant achievement since less than 20 percent of more than 1,000 institutional applicants received one of the Institute's competitive national grants. Visiting The A.R. Bowman Memorial Museum is located on the southeast corner of Third and Main Street in Prineville.Images of America Prinville, Acadia Publishing, San Francisco, California, 2007, p. 42. The museum is open year around. From Memorial Day through Labor Day, the museum is open every day. The rest of the year, the museum is open five days a week, Tuesday through Saturday, The operating hour are normally from mid-morning until late afternoon. References External links *City of Prineville, Oregon *Crook County, Oregon *Prineville-Crook County Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center Category:History museums in Oregon Category:Museums in Crook County, Oregon Category:Museums established in 1971 Category:Historical society museums in Oregon Category:Prineville, Oregon Category:1971 establishments in Oregon "
"National Tennis Leagues (NTL) was a tour for professional male tennis players established in 1967 by George MacCall. In 1970 it was sold to the World Championship Tennis (WCT), a competing professional tennis league run by Lamar Hunt. History The National Tennis League (NTL) was formed by former U.S. Davis Cup captain George MacCall in 1967, as a governing body to an American professional tennis tour. MacCall signed several players to contracts, including Arthur Ashe, Rod Laver, Roy Emerson and Stan Smith. The NTL followed in the wake of MacCall's departure from the existing International Professional Tennis Association (IPTA), which had been created by promoter Wallace Dill in 1966 "Tennis 'New Deal' Keeps Dill Hopping", Orlando Sentinel, February 5, 1967, p1-D "Denny Ralston Turns Pro", Oakland Tribune, December 26, 1966, p55, and preceded the creation of World Championship Tennis (WCT), formed by Lamar Hunt and David Dixon "Switch to pro tennis", Windsor (ON) Star, December 23, 1967, p4C The NTL differed from the IPTA and from WCT in being the first to sign women to professional contracts in addition to men "Billie Jean Interested in Career as Pro", Los Angeles Times, November 28, 1967, pIII-2. In 1968 Billie Jean King became the first woman of the Open Era to sign a pro contract to tour, in a group with Rosie Casals, Françoise Dürr and Ann Haydon-Jones as the women's section of the National Tennis League. "On April 1, 1968, we signed with the National Tennis League, as George MacCall's troupe was called. Frankie (Durr) and Rosie (Casals) received a guarantee of $20,000 per annum for two years, mine (Ann Haydon-Jones) was $25,000 and Billie Jean King's was $40,000. George envisaged us playing a lot of matches and tournaments amongst ourselves and did not expect us to be as much involved in open tennis as later proved to be the case....We joined the six men that he already controlled - Emerson, Laver, Gimeno, Gonzales, Rosewall and Stolle. A group of ten was an attractive proposition to offer and he believed he was going to do very well from it. His main problem was one of administration. He had to keep flying all over the world to tie up arrangements with the various associations but didn't leave sufficient time to organize his professional tours in America, the most important part of the operation, and didn't seem to be able or willing to delegate."—From A Game to Love by Ann Jones. Published 1971 by Stanley Paul & Co Ltd; p. 135 and 136 In June 1969 Fred Podesta's formed Tennis Champions Inc. and became the parent company of the NTL with Podesta as president and MacCall as executive director. Nevertheless, except for the 1969 and 1971 tournaments, many of the best players missed the Australian Open, because of the remoteness, the inconvenient dates (around Christmas and New Year's Day), and the low prize money. In 1970 the National Tennis League (NTL), which employed Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Andrés Gimeno, Pancho Gonzales, Roy Emerson and Fred Stolle, prevented its players from entering the tournament because the guarantees were insufficient. The tournament was ultimately won by Arthur Ashe. Both professional organizations, the NTL and WCT, banned their contracted players from contesting the grand slams at some stage during their short tenure and this made the International Lawn Tennis Federation, the predecessor of the current ITF, very nervous. That was the catalyst that led to the abandonment of the distinction between amateur and professional tennis players and by 1968, the beginning of the Open Era, all tennis players could compete in all tennis tournaments George MacCall sold the NTL's player contracts to Lamar Hunt in July 1970. He became the first Commissioner of World Team Tennis in 1974. Some of the players he signed to contracts were: Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Roy Emerson, Pancho Gonzales, Fred Stolle, Billie Jean King and Rosie Casals. He traveled the world to sign players. Many tournaments had to get their players through George. =1969 NTL earnings= # Rod Laver: 30 weeks, $123,405 # Roy Emerson: 30 weeks, $62,655 # Ken Rosewall: 20 weeks, $46,800 # Pancho Gonzales: 22 weeks, $46,320 # Fred Stolle: 28 weeks, $43,115 # Andrés Gimeno: 21 weeks, $35,115 Source See also * Grand Prix tennis tournaments * USTA * International Tennis Federation References Category:Tennis leagues in the United States Category:Defunct tennis tours Category:1967 establishments in the United States Category:Sports leagues established in 1967 Category:1970 disestablishments in the United States "
"Albert Edwin Hawksley Sangwine (16 March 1901 - 3 November 1962) was an English freestyle sport wrestler who competed for Great Britain in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Tottenham and died in Chingford. In 1924 he finished tenth in the freestyle heavyweight tournament. At the 1930 Empire Games he won the silver medal in the freestyle heavyweight class. ReferencesExternal links * postalheritage.org.uk Category:1901 births Category:1962 deaths Category:People from Tottenham Category:Sportspeople from London Category:Wrestlers at the 1930 British Empire Games Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Category:Olympic wrestlers of Great Britain Category:Wrestlers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Category:British male sport wrestlers Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in wrestling "