The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-08

It is wonderful what a fad bowling has
become. 1t has filed the vacancy left by
the demise of the roller skate. A half dozen
or more years ago roller skating was called
'Festina Lente," which was started by
fashionable people to make the Lenten
season pass more quickly though there was
no pun in the name, so far as | know The
members enjoyed the roller, but it became
too common and the Knickerbocker Bowling
Club succeeded it. The club now meets in
the new tennis building on West Forty first
street Foremost in the organization is Mr..
Amory S. Carhart, known as 'the tie that
b inds,n because he lives in Brooklyn and
moves in New York society, which is an
unusual thing. Others are Alexander and
John Hadden, Mr. Louis Keller, Mrs. Irving
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Parish, Mr.. Edward
Livingstone, the Messrs. Clarkson, Mr. and
Mrs. Orme Wilson Miss Astor).
For general athletics one must go to the
New York Athletic Club, whose splendid
gymnasium is on the corner of Sixth avenue
and Fifty-fifth street. 1t has a thousand
members. and is in every way prosperous
institution. Membership is not quite so ex-
pensive as in the ordinary social club-S100
Initiation and $50 year in dues. Go in any
afternoon about o'clock and you will find,
perhaps, sitting in the parlor slipping coffee,
Wright Sanford a short, stocky man of very
dark complexion. He is the best known
first nighter in New York. Chatting with
him may be Herman Oelrichs, a beardless,
full-faced boy of 35, of medium height but
magnificent physique. In the immense
gymnasium, with its lofty ceiling and its
Infinite variety of apparatus, we shall find
Fred May at work with the parallel bars.
He is a giant in stature, six feet four inches
in height He wears blue trunks and
white. tight-fitting, armless shirt. Watching
him stands Mora, the photographer and
member of an old Cuban family who lost
their estates in the revolution there and
have lust recovered them. He is also in
pymnastic costume. Next him stands
another well-known Cuban, who bears the
name De Joicuria. He is a fine-looking
fellow Doing the giant swing is William
Morse, a man of immense frame. In the
Ia vatory are a dozen wel-lnown society
swalls who have just come out of the great
''plunge" and are putting and blowing like
norpoises. You will notice that very few
of these men wear a beard and not many
ba We any hair upon the face; it is peculi-
arity of New York athletic society men.
The director Of the athletic club IS George
Coldie. well-known at Princeton College. He
has so many medals that he couldn't pin
them all on at once, because there wouldn't
be room.
Among the social club men who are
known as athletes are Schuyler Warren,
Goold, Hoyt nephew of Gen. Winfield
scott the Murphy boys, sons of Collector
Thomas Murphy, George Bird, the famous
pistol shot. Baron Blanc, cousin of Freddy
Gebhavdt six feet two inches tall, and one
of the finest looking men in New York.
The Racquet Club, corner of Sixth
avenue and Twenty sixth street. is where
they play the old game OF hand ball Inc
late william r. TraveIs was the patron
ssin+ Of this club. The annual ladies day
was looked forward to as a social event es
peciaIly by the young girls. Last winter
when he was dying in Bermuda he wrote
20 have the reception given as usual. His
sons are the leading spirits in the club. The
late Mr. Travers, though not an athlete
himself was patron of sport, and his
memory will he cherished for that and for
the many sterling qualities when made MS
name respected. HOWARD rlELDiNI'