ABSTRACT
In 1928, the date of the above quotation in the title, Alexandrine Gibb was in her mid-30s. She had already distinguished herself as an athlete, a pioneering leader and administrator of women's sport, manager of several international athletic teams, and was about to embark on her primary career as Canada's most pre-eminent woman sports journalist of this era. Yet, she has been almost forgotten by today's sports world, and certainly by the newspaper, the Toronto Star, where she worked for thirty years. Although this is her story, it is also an account of the early days of organizing women's sport in Canada, especially in the 1920s and 1930s, when Gibb and her contemporaries were major players.
