“…Kalev was after all nothing but a camouflage under which an elitist group of Estonian civil servants, businessmen, teachers, journalists and lawyers gathered together to discuss possibilities of a prospective independent homeland. 74 After the 1905 revolution Kalev concentrated increasingly on sport since it was more or less impossible to follow up plans of independence. The club tried now to get more influence on the development of Estonian sports, especially in the field of tennis, gymnastics, track and field, swimming and footballan area with a vivid German Baltic sporting scene.…”