The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-07-13
NHW nITlD
ULUD
ATHLETICS
KniCkerbOckerS will Widen Scope
Of their Organization.
Football Team to be Placed In the
Field this Fall Club House to be
Built for the Members Tennis
Courts Next Year.

Have you heard of the Knicker-
bockers?
| Doubtless you have if you have read
the papers because the name has been
published several times lately in con-
nection with baseball games. Some
times it has been on the credit side of
| the score and sometimes it hasn't de-
pending much ON who was in the
game. But that is another story, as
Mr. Kipling would say, and as it has
been written on various occasions
and at varying lengths it will not be
alluded to here.
This article is written primarily to
enlighten gracious AMI wondering
public as to the meaning and purpose
of the Knickerbockers.
Knickerbockers is described by the
late lamented Noah Webster as "a
name for style of short breeches. !"
That tells in brief manner something
of interest with regard to the club,
and that is the members will all wear
Knickerbockers. 1t is obvious, there
fore, that members of the fair sex will
have no place in the counsels of this
organization.
i This club was started a short time
ago by several we'll known young men
for the purpose Of of playing baseball.
But since then its purpose has been
broadened and now it is the intention
of the members to make the club a
general athletic organization. That
is, as the club grows, general line
of teams will be organized. covering
all branches of field sports such as
baseball, football, tennis, running
and jumping teams.
| When the club was organized some
of the business men of the town were
called on for support They responded
we'll, many of them becoming mem
bers and paying in the initiation fee.
The first thing the club needed was a
practice ground and place for hold
ing contests with competing clubs
This was furnished by Edgar F.
Randolph, who donated the use of a
fine piece of ground on Ford avenue
Here a fine diamond has been made
and it has been named Randolph field
in honor Of it's donor. This fall,
when the football team has been or
ganized. the field will be arranged for
a gridiron and it is expected that
many hot contests will be played on
| it.
The present officers of the club are
F. A. Trowbridge manager, Clarence
Compton treasurer, Harry Craig
secretary. Malcolm LaRue is cap
tain of the baseball club.
Speaking of the purpose of the club
Mr. Trowbridge said to Chronicle
reporter:
An athletic organization of the
kind we are promoting is badly need
ed in Morristown. We need some
thing to which the young men of the
town can go for their pleasure in
the way of sports. There is no such
organization here now. This one we
desire to be representative. We want
every one to feel the right to come to
the club, pay his fee and become a
member, and we want everyone to
take an interest in the new organiza-
tion.
1t is our intention as soon as pos
sible to build club house ON Randolph
field. Not an expensive affair but
one of moderate cost which will be
comfortable and commodious at the
same time. AT first the club house
will be merely shelter with dressing
rooms, lockers and sitting rooms.
All these things may not come this
year, we do not expect them, but we
are not organized for one year. We
are organized for good and if we have
sort of house built by this fall we
will have it greatly improved in the
spring.
AS soon as the baseball season is
over, intend to put a football team
at work and we want to play teams
rom all the surrounding towns just
as the baseball team has done.
| Randolph field is plenty large
enough for all the work which we
have proposed. We can have half
dozen tennis courts there besides
the baseball diamond and the grid
iron. We can also have club house
there and we can have great deal of
good healthy sport.
From the manner in which the
proposition is being received by the
business men Of the city there is no
doubt that it will 60 1t is being
well supported. Everyone to whom
the subject has been broached has re-
ceived it with enthusiasm. BY a year
from now we expect to have a good
strong organization, one which will
be able to stand on it's own merits and
be credit to the city
SOME HAY.
| 49, nnx~~,~., .xxL1 l. 49,