New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-06
CRESCENT CLUB TO BUILD.
THE WE'LL KNOWN ATHLETIC ORGANI
ZATION TO HAVE A NEW
WINTER HOME.

No club in the country has a greater rcputa-
lion for promoting clean outdoor sports than the
G. est-ent Athletic Club, of Brooklyn. Its sum
rner house at Bay Ridge IS well known ana IS
tie headquarters for many high class sporting
events But aside from the membership and
those fortunate enough to enjoy the privileges
Of the club guests comparatively few are
aware that the club also has well appointed
city house at No - Clinton-st, Brooklyn
Heights. The winter needs of the clup nave
grown so that this house is no longer adequate
and the club intends to begin building a new
house nearly opposite the present quarters
The encroachnents Of ordinary club require
nients in the present city house upon the athletic
feature of club life have become so great that
swimming, bowling, billiards. pool and hand
ball are all that be accommodated The
gymnasium equipped with all sorts of training
and health-giving appliances, has been con
vered into handball court for the time being
and its other uses have been curtailed that
they are hardly noticeable. Even the large
billiard and pool room, with its many tables,
JAS become inadequate to the requirements oil
thc club, and this sport, in which the club takes
. particular pride owing to the clever work OF
Kceney, Gardner and others who have brought
home the banners of victory from many amateur
contests, calls for improved housing. The four
tenpin alleys are not enough, and the oarsmen
Of the club temporarily deprived. by the
crowded condition of the gymnasium, of exer-
else on the machines provided for their training.
OF course there are features and associations
of the old clubhouse which will be missed. The
black old griroom, with its half tmbered cell
ing and quaint mantel, over which a lurid cres-
cent shines through the gloom will be remen-
bered with pleasure long after it is vacated, and
thntI h. hppn
SO restful and yet SO cheerful probably will be
longed for by some of the members when even
ing comes in the more spacious halls and more
severely elegant precincts of the new home
Perhaps however, winter will not seem so long
and warming for the season at the bayside will
be less keen when the new house, with all its
conveniences and provisions for every kind of
sport and Respondent in it's rich decorations, is
in commission.
Aside from billiards. handball and bowling. the
Crescent club is chiefly famous for the higher
order of outdoor sports, among which rowing,
lacrosse golf and tennis the most prom
inent. The collection of championship banners
in the city house of the club is large, and the
pride of the members in it is shown on all coca
sons. The scene of preparation and battle IN
these conquests is the ample grounds of the
club the waterfront at the Bay Ridge sum-
mer house In winter only a dining room and
sitting room, with such accessories are neces-
sary for the comfort and pleasure of members
who wish to rest from driving or automobile
riding, are kept open there. The swimming pool
in the city house is one of the most spacious
and best arranged in the city, and those who
go to Bay Ridge in the summer to enjoy a
plunge in the waters of the bay find in winter
a good substitute for this, which could hardly
be more agreeable IN q larger more finely
appointed house.