Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-10
on its feet and able to make full speed in the

on its feet and able to make full speed in the
run Of success, which now seems assured.
Several Of the members are anxious that Q
race in Fights for club members only be gotten
up and put in practice for a race to be held
sometime the latter part Of this month for club
badges, as suggested last week in this column,
and they hope before it is too late in the season
to secure the cooperation of the proper
officers.
The third hop Of tho regular season, held last
evening, was IN every way success, and the
large number OF guests Of the club greatly en-
joyed the entertainment, which this club has
made feature of the season. 1t is possible
that the hops win continue through October.
MODEL LABOR DAY CELEBRATION.
"All things come to him who waits" and now
that our last hope for a Face or regatta Of any
kind at the Potomac river has vanished we may
now fold our hands and wait. If, while we
wait, we do a little work and formulate plans
and learn from the experience of others the best
way TO do 1t and do it, l can see no reason why
we cannot sometime next spring or early sum-
mer have a day of land and water sports Just as
they have in northern cities.
Where on all this part of the great .ootstool
will you find better location for such thing
than Analostan Island and our river, course
and track SO near together that you could
almost see both land and water events at same
time? Why not get the clubs interested and
have under the auspices of all three of them
such an affair, open in all events to the ANA
tours of the world: the expense to be equally
divided, and let the Columbias furnish Analos-
tan Island for the games and the Potomacs and
Analostans the river for the regatta; mean to
finish it, surveyed tagged and so on. All this
is suggested to me by the day spent as a guest
of the Staten Island Athletic Club at West New
Brighton. There, for 81, which admits to the
boat house and to the beautiful grounds. one can
spend the entire day and evening and enjoy
not only the water sports, but all Gland events
in the shape of games including everything
from tennis and base ball and Ia crosse and foot
ball and bicycling to pony racing, and the at
tendance averages about 5000 persons. The
events were reeled off promptly on time and
the crowd WAS constantly being entertained
The eight-oared shell racesin the three classes
Junior, intermediate and senior-were interest
ing from the fact that the crews were very
evenly matched. The Atalantas, ever lucky in
having good crews. won the two races it en-
tered. junior and senior. and kept up its
record for winning everywhere the club sends
crews.
On the ball field the familiar faces Of Phil
King and Harry King were seen and the excel
lent playing of the former or the Princeton
team both in base ball and foot ball is too well
known to need mentioning here.
coNGESIALIrY IN CLUBS.
Did it ever strike you that in the great ma
jority of clubs that you have been in that there
is too much fornality and chlliness and not
that congeniality among members that you
would expect to find in The very place the pur-
pose of which is TO bring men closer together
and where men should throw off the restraint
that cold. heartless outer world throws
about them? Well, it has often struck
me that in many Of the clubs there
Is too much of this. and it was therefore a rove
lation to me to find that at the Staten Island
Athletic Club the very opposite exists, and
from the moment OF entering the gates to the
leaving thereof the utmost warmth and con-
geniality exist between al the members, and
1t Is no wonder to me that they travel twenty
minutes on n ferry and nearly as much more on
a train 70 come from the city to the club on the
island. The event g spent Mt this club with
such gay spirits Cargill and Livingston and
Fred Jansen and Jack Cole and Charley Kint-
ner, formerly of the {. A. c. of this city, and
others is oasis in the desert of Washing
tonians humdrum lie that will not soon for
get. OSCAR 7. SCHMIDT.