New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-30
Now for City's Athletic Carnival

bicycles. and spin occasionally along the
parkway.
Goling lacrosse. boating. yachting and
swimming are mentioned as the chief recre-
atoms at the park on late day IN April
not a deyotee Of any OF these sports was
visible. The somnolent look ot summer
watering place in the grasp Of backward
spring was over IL all. IL was explained
that the crippled children OF tho Darrach
Home would come in carly June 10 occupy
the Turnbul house. the little mothers
and their aid association would then take
possession OF Hunters Island, and Jacob
Rss colony rom his neighborhood settle
ment on the East Side OF Manhattan would
move up from Manhattan TO TWIN Island.
Also. tile four yacht clubs-StuyNesani.
Pelham Ray. Metropolitan and Morris
legcmen az the city OF New York. ten
ants OF its water privileges at the nominal
rate Of tsay) $40 month. or So the season
would come 10 life In May and dot the
now deserted harbor with sail craft and
"kckers'
About June - the bathing hsachcs-bot1
those at Orchard Beach and those al
JOINING the athletic felds-woud open.
No private club monopolizes these latter
privileges There are i've hundr d bath
houses. and five hundred New Workers ~
n time can enjoy Father Knickerbocker's
"washday" hospitality. By June, too. the
golfers will be we'll practised over their
eighteen hole course. nine holes Of whicn
are being constructed this spring with
view 10 their completion the third week
In MAY. Nature has done most Of the
work on the new part ot the golf course.
There are knobs with fiat. table-like tops
FOR teeing green's fsirways OF meadow: a
charming brook and pond serving as a
water hazard: the railroad and the woods
as wild-shot penalties. biz breasting up
lands and low lying swamps: stretches OF
sand and small deserets OF rock and sravol.
Proper drainage and construction OF
burkers and sand pits are the principal
Jobs outside Of the routine sodding OF
greens. making Of tees and rolling Of the
fairway. Professional constructors OF golt
links stand afar and admire Know that
the City OF New York is building its own
links without any professional supervision
of yours whatsoever. Ii is ali a part Of the
days work ot the Bronx superintendent,
Mr. Burgevin
one OF the liveliest places for the par
t.c.pants and spectators OF public games IL
the Macombs Dam Park, in The Bronx.
across the Seventh avenue bridge over thu
Harlem. After tho deafness OF Pelham n
seems veritsbe city OF play. marked OF
into the three busting wards OF baseball.
lawn tennis and athletic sports. Here the
permit supervision OF the Park Department.
I. highly requisite. A park foreman con-
trolls the allotment OF courts TO the tennis
players who are armed with the precious
permits and have definite hours assigned
e. them TO pursue their favorite pastlms.
For tho ball clubs here. as at Van Cort-
landt and other nearby Bronx parks
morning. early afternoon and late after
noon periods are assigned for scheduled
games Schoolboy organizations are re-
strcted TO the weekdays. while tho city's
toilers receive the preference Tor Sstur-
days and sundays. while the tennis hends
are whirling their racke,s and the fans
and players are in fronzied action I'm and
about the diamonds, heavily painting
ort-panted youth are circling the run
Ling track on the other side OF the road
way and within the oval Enclosure bows
are pole yaulting. throwing the hammer.
putting the shot. or stretching their legs
In high and broad jumps.
ON busy day there are ten or twelv.
thousand people on the big Van Cortlandt
playground. The diversity II games Is
fairly bewildcrins Loyal subjects OF kins
George bowling AT cricket Stumps. squad
ron 4 horsemen daShlng madly into polo
combats. twelve or fifteen baseball games
going on simultaneously; tennis PLAYERS
flying about the courts. hordcs OF golfers
cove ring the remoter hills and meadows
II Is altogether a picture ~ multfarious
play-activity that is unequalled In America
outside tho metropolis. perhaps unequallcd
anywhere in tho gorld. Similar busting
scenes are enacted on the so-caled parade
ground OF Prospect Park and 10 lesser
degree In the other parks Of the outlying
horoughs.
patient observer noted aud described
last year ninety-thrce varieties of Wild
lrds IN Central Park. One hundred and
ten varieties were observed during q simi.
lar period in Prospect Park.