The Border Rugby Story explains the difficulties of holding the Border League and District Union post at the same time: [The secretary] could never allow his left hand to know what his right hand was doing.
League and Union representatives would meet in the same place on the same night, in a quorum composed of much the same people, but the secretary kept two minute books, one for Union eyes, the other strictly for home consumption in the League.
It must be apparent to the public that the sensational titbits which appeared about rugby football, were, with a few exceptions.
They wrote their puerile nonsense about the game for personal gain, and a friend of his had ranked them as second rate prostitutes.
[9] Hogg was made the chairman of the committee for the Galashiels festival, the Braw Lads Gathering, in 1939.