The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-04
Membership Has Jumped Be-
yond the l,700-Mark
in One Year.
INTEREST IN ATHLETICS
By NAT It. WORLEY.

No longer does the employe of the In
ward as the slanting rays OF Old Sol fade
slowly to the west
U, Nope! There's a spring in his step anc
a flash in his eye as he strikes out for
the old fireside with visions of a NICE IA,
steak adding extra horsepower to hi.
pedal propellers.
It's spring." you say.
| "Noper'
We give it up"
| It's the Home Club
! Ever since the Home Club made its
debut TO Washingtons club world the
Interior Department employee has taken
| a new lease on life. Father is raving
over the chess tournament or is a bowl
j ing nut" brother /: trying out for ons
of the baseball teams in the Home Club
League and is so "dippy'' about the
whole business he forgets to come home
| to eat; while sister is a tennis bug
and ma is studying up on bridge.
| For the Home Club is a real club with
over 100 members, all of whom are em-
ployed under Franklin X. Lane, Secre-
tary of the Interior.
The genial Secretary is acclaimed the
prince of good fellows by the clerks in
his department for the interest he takes
III titiT "tiIdIt- IL was through MT. Lane
that the Home Club was organized.
Shortly after he became Secretary Of the
Interior, he conceived the idea of form
ing club among the clerks. Accord
ngly, on January 8, 1914, the project was
launched and on the first Of the following
month the handsome clubhouse at "A
Jackson place northwest was leased.
Pool and Billiard Tables.
Every facility for pleasure and
recreation is afforded within, from
pool and billiard tables. card rooms.
and n library, to a handsome ballroom
for dancing. Chess tournaments and
800" parties are of frequent occur
renee.
The success OF the club has exceed
ed the fondest expectations of those
who were first to get behind the
scheme, and it has grown with such
rapid strides it is evident that 1t will
not be long before il will be neces-
sary to move TO more spacious quar-.
tiers.
The baseball league will start the
sea son about May ] on one of the
diamonds on the White Lot. The
schedule will run fifty games, and the
circuit will be composed of eight
teams from the Bureau of Mines, Geo
logical Survey. Indian Office, Land Of
fee. Patent Office. Pension Office, Rec
1amation Service, anc Secretary's OF.
flee.
Interior has been represented by a
club in the Departmental League for
a number of years. and the Home
Club League is not being run in op-
position to this team. but should in
the end really boost II, rs 1t is evil
dent baseball interest in the depart
ment is being worked up thoroughly
by the new league as II has never
been worked up before.
Swift Heads Baseball League.
Officers Of the baseball league are: John
w. Swift, president; George F. Cook.
vice president. and A. ]. Hendley, Sec
|
Plans are on foot to organize a wan
derlusters club within the Home Club |
for the special purpose of taking long /
hikes on Sundays and holidays. The first /
meeting Of those interested was held re-
Gently at the club when plans were dis
cussed. John Boyle. Titus Ulke. and |
Frank Holt. all of the Interior Depart
ment. are three of the men who are |
prominently identified with the general
movement in Washington and |
IL the Home Club wanderiusters get to-
gether. It Is planned to ask these men
to lead the hikes.
Three tennis courts were maintained by
the club last year for the use of the
members, one At Seventeenth and HI
streets northwest and two on Meridianl
Hill. This spring 1t is proposed to again
have these courts and in addition
ono In lexington and ono at
Pennsylvania avenue and Eighth streeti
southeast
D. N. Greene. Of the General Land,