New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-07

when the members OF the club gather for a free
and easy. happy-go-lucky time, and 1t Is one OF
those rare days when every man can feel something
like the fellow who Said:
Dinners Of form vote a bore
Where folks who met before.
And care II they ne'er meet more.
brought together.
Crammd close mackerel in their places,
They eat with Chesterfieldian graoes
Drink healths and talk with sapent faces
About the weather.
Thrice best who at a club unbends.
with half a dozen Of his friends.
And while the curling smoke ascends
In volumes sable.
Mirth and good humor round him sees.
Chats long backward at his ease.
Or cocks his cross'd legs II he please
Upon the table.
ON this anniversary day no women will be In
yited and none will be allowed on the grounds
This seeming lack Of gallantry Will be maze UP
for by the many other social times the CLUB mas
arranged for the future at which the mothers and
sisters cousins and aunts and others VIII De
welcomed.
The carnbake will be held at $50 in the after
noon and the fireworks and vaudeville entertain
ment will begin at 100 Besides the clubs ami
ycrsary tomorrow there are several other AFFAIRS
which being arranged for by the club ana from
present Indications 1t looks as though they wouid
be extremely successful. on September q Al
Travers Island the tfty-third games of the CLUB
will be held. open to members or athieuc ciups
only The games will consist of fifteen contests In
GLIDING lOo-yard rum 1Ooo-yard run. one-mile walk.
running broad Jump, two-mile bicycle race ana
three scratch races consisting OF 3D-yard rum one
mile bicycle and one-iifth-mile hurdle race
on this day admission to the grounds VIII De oy
invitation only. a gold medal Will be given 10 the
winner in each contest. silver to second ana a
oh xtill
saturday September l5 should be sent to John I.
cr,c secretary OF the club at No. lsi West Fifty
nfth-st.
ON the same day and at the same place. the
Amateur Athletic Union championship two-miie
steeplechase and ten-mile run VIII be held. Atm
letes from all parts of the country VIII contest a'
the games on this day. and it is expected that 1t
Will be one OF the biggest meets held IN many
years The success the athletes of the ew-forK
Athletic club won at the games OF the Metro
politan Association Of the Amateur Athletlc 'h'oh
held at Saratoga In August. when eleven hrs's ou'
Of seventeen and four seconds were scored TO ther
credit has made lovers OF amateur athiet'cs ioon
forward TO the open fail games of the cuo win
unusual interest. and II expectations are fulfilled
II viii be a day when records will go all to pieces
A NEW CLUBHOUSE IN THIS CITY
The twenty-sixth anniversa OF the New-for
Athletic Clubs birth is doubly interesting this
year on account Of the pleasing announcement
that the club has about completed arrangements
TO build a handsome new clubhouse in this CITY.
The growth OF the club has made the Pre Se.a
house A. sixth,ave ana ri!y smb and While il is
Of the finely appointed ciubhouses IN ,he Uork
e sry new "S house SsS" that ~ be the building Of
any athletic club r the world All me p,n 70 do
bu according to present calculations it Is thought
that work Viii 6eS} IN me s,S SPp.nS and Fifty
nInth.st i2o feet in Fifty-ninth-st and lo
feet in sixth-ays and e9nneSnlIs sst tUS III
Site the new clubhouse will be erected;
when the present house was put up LINK SI iS th h
country. and when athletic clubs In o,ner ,oses
became prosperous enough to Gad h Su TT of the
New York clubs house both az regaris us hnsa
lecture and interior arrans. ments rrangements
the combined ideas and plans Of the big eiuo-
houses in many cities OF the ' T9r Athletic Club
in a large measure sets forth the birth and rise
q amateur athletics In this cry h s aa been coupled
with everything that is manly In sport, ara s lti
has met with weii-earned success The few men
Who started the club had this in mind a, "a. very
male at home and abroad In the twenty-six years
OF its existence shows how we'll the ideas OF the
orlyed on September g. 1855 and incorporated
APRIL L. 1870 on September S, lsts some men VINO
an seoual footing with those In England. met In
little Sxthaye. restaurant ana formed a eiuS az
wniGn Short in this country and they called
the NswYqk AthlSs club 1 Among rs sbe rsi on
A. Hires and ii. Il. Buermeyer ,, MI,
The first clubhouse was at No. % 81 Marks Place.
1'h.n the club moved TO rooms In WOODS gym
nasmm Al No East Twenty-eighth-s st; from there
il went to rooms In Roster & Balls building In West
one at Sxth-ava and Fifty-hfth-st
IT'S FIRST ATHLETIC GAMES.
The first athletic games held by the New-York
Athletic club and In fact the first open amateur
athletic club games ever held In this country were
in the Empire City Rink. at Third-ave. and sixty
third st. on November II, 1868 AFTER that the
games given by this club were held on grounds In
One-hundred and i rtieth-st, between Third and
Fourth aves until 1875 when they were held at
Mott Haven In 1858 the club went 10 It's present
country home on Travers Island. Pelham Manor.
n y which Is undoubtedly the finest athletic club
sTnn New York Athletic club was the first athletic
association to institute the open amateur handicap
games the first 70 siye tusol war G"n'cs' SN,nn
ship and II was the first club In the world 10 INTRO
duce the many features that make successful as,
1t has never allowed a professonai athlete IN us
ranks and just as soon as any member has lett me
The amateur athlete Is defined by the New-York Ath-
letic Cub as who has not entered IN an open
competition for either stake, public or admission
money entrance fee; or under fictitious name:
for any prize or where admission fee is charged;
who has not instructed pursued or assisted ~ me
pursuit or atnleuC exercise rs "a uicaHs vl IL hNtH-
hood or for gain or any emolument; or whose MEM
bershp of any athletic club of any kind was not
thought about or does not continue because OF any
Irutual understanding. express or implied whereby
his becoming continuing member OF such club
would be OF any pecunary benefit 10 him.
The club when first organized had about 400 MEM
S Smsns S 1s ss weary
Roosevelt ID. Henry Knowiton. w. X. Collins. Rich
ard Fellows. Austin Flint tr, John c. Babcock. H.
W Barnes. John Whpple and Colonel George Moore
smith Some of Its later well-known members were
Roscoe Conkling. william II. Travers. Seth Il.
French Colonel John ]. McCook, William Wood.
{. Il. Pierce. w. q. SCHUYLER, William B. Curtis,
Barlow s. Weeks August Belmont, b. G. Williams
A. H. Wheeler. A. H. Curtis. w. NJ Murray and Il
w Rahborne. The present officers are: Barlow >
Weeks. president; James Whitley vlce-president
John G. Guck. secretary: George Massey. treasurer.
and n. H. Baxter. captain. The physical instructor
Is r.. J. Giannini. who succeeded George B. Goldie.
ANNUAL DINNER or YACHT CLUE