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1b New York the Foremost City in the World in the Matter of Encouraging the Use of the Public Parks for put The Results Called Good I door Sports s

r PARK TENNIS GROUNDS clubs make the park their headquarters- St James Park contains tennis courts Croton Park Has two baseball diamonds and twenty tennis courts five of which are enclosed for tournament ute pxdinlvely Claremont Park contains two teasel h1 fields and number of tennis court and tennis is played also in St MarvV Park All of these grounds are in constant HM throughput the summer though the tennis j courts are not so crowded as those of Ce- ¬ ntral Park Boating on Bronx River Is about the only sport permitted in which ii mainly given over to the and the Zoological Park and these ei hiblta providea certain kind of recreation forthousands ofpersons who never dream of going to the parks for any more vigorous exercise than walking or driving and to whom the various sports and games do not specially appeal But the most extensive facilities and equipments for sports and games are lo- be the two largest park largest not only ofThe Bronx but of the whol city and Van Oortlandt Park The largest of all the parks Pelham Bay ten baseball IIV contains two golf Courses fields scores of tennis courts a fine athletic GIRLS HAND DRILL WM SZWAPD PARK field and open air gymnasium a quarter mile running track four alleys targets for archery practise boat boti es v The officials of the Department of Park for boating on the bay severs ncht houses assert that no other city in the world doe OVMB ElL DRILL IN FISH PARK built by various yacht clubs with the IT York to see that Its publl Park Department 3W lies no much as New large interm o1aU mission of the parka are enjoyed by its people so much Indian club drills and Indian There are three sizes houses which are nowhere near hand drills the baby swings And bath breathing spots attractive and circle pull are some of those and small besides enough to supply the demand on Saturday to make its club many babies have beer noteworthy in thl A tournament is held about once the lives of frail Sundays and besides all these his inviting Especially grand swings and have been the of the munioi in six On July 1 such a tourna- saved by these yommissionor grants permits for tenting direction effort months of the day the social pal government in recent years to fo te ment was held for all the playground parks In the hot hours or camping out on the shore of the bay work ls to the girls from in the parka outdoor sporta and recreation The Commissioner awarded medals to the occupation glen This summer there are about 200 of th 4 to 15 years old Tether ball is a very l various games and occupied by individuals of practically all kinds most skilful players in girls who also tents putup and of city park as simply ai the park winning the greatest popular game with the all parts of Greater New f The old idea a contests and volley ball and among the or families from and shrubbery garden witl of points received a pennant play tennis and spending their summer r enclosed tree numlxir giant stride very popular York who are handsome lawns protected by plenty o Tills is now held by children the is In pleasant way with all the fun sort girls In Hamilton Fish Park this Keep the Grass signs has given place- On special occasions also tournaments For the of camp life within the city links off and quiet game room where rollo to the new idea that a great and crowded are held ouch as the opening of a now park there is a library and within easy call of business if busmen 1 ¬ an hour in the afternoon parks should be the playgrounds o or playground On Sept such a tourna- they can spend should demand attention There are a t citys Considerable work is done in summer ii its children of nil ages that to be enjoyed ment will I held at the opening of De Witt many children in these camping I gym and on the track dumb treat people parks should be used by the outdoor enjoy it greatly by the the Clinton Park so on the winter parties They of course constantly- time as possi- ¬ bell exercises and In YOW the people And the city is BAY PARK We try to devote as much have and it is giving them health and strength im ATIHNQ IN PELHAM playground they build toboggans snow men and two at work preparing new playgrounds ble to tho general mass on the which Van Park contains installing new girls will soon > com clubs The winter entertainments and parties holes proving those already in use Is skating the lake and ponds pavilion with 150 free baths half of them playground for and yet develop teams and courses one a practise links of nine and providing additional facili- men and half for women East River pletpd enthusiasm among the boys for these teams aro extremely popular on the meadow for beginners and the equipment being crowded whenever the toe is in good for how means to the city is not ties sports and games at East River from Eightyfourth The work of teaching the children has grown rapidly and the park spirit now What all this other a regulation eighteen hole links for condition Park the properly one man in a thousand The utilization of New Yorks parks foi provided- to Eightyninth street contains a small to use the gymnasium apparatus displayed Is really remarkable appreciated by which le kept in excellent condition and- Good grounds for baseball are In merely heard that games began about 1860 whet girls and small children pro- ¬ and how to play the various games work was first started here Some people who have s fairly sporty course Is probably sports and in St Nicholas Park and at Oval playground for ol When the money to provide a It permitted to playbase and large swings these parks IH under the would be fairly swamped by a the city is spending a lot of public golf course in the country L schoolboys were first the grown up adherents of the national vided with kindergarten the park the poorer quar the finest Central Park A baseball diamond orscups as children call them and other David I Kelly director of city playgrounds- tough youngsters who had never sports for the children of The polo field is another attraction at ball in game have the same rights and privileges the horde of was waste of money in the southwestern cornet devices appreciated by the smallest children who In the three years that he has been freedom without lawlessness and ters have said it a Van Cortlandt and is used constantly was laid out granted to the youngsters in Central Park lad any spend it some 250 F accomplished a remarkable and the city might better clubs of the park and the rule was established In recent years the Park Board has been at the East River and charge has who did not know what to mako of the throughout the season by various t 4 lower way ¬ that only boys under IS should be permitted golf course Seventysixth street contains an outdoor work the children of the thing They wanted to tear everything other if the upperpart of the city and the ad IVa- petitioned repeatedly to build a especially Mr Kelly said to they do not know what they are iUal n boys two tennis courts- East Side They keep their hands But There are also in Van to play in Central Park but such petitions can never gymnasium for the to pieces couldnt means not alone joining suburbs brtI good Central court THE SON reporter- or regu- ¬ talking about This work fields many tennis This rule still holds In Park succeed because there is not room for golf a baseball diamond a basketball off They had no regard for rules Cortlandt baseball hla- ho there th breaking up of the hlcbJtn1 f f there are plenty of baseball diamonds spoiling large part of the and a kindergarten equipment with sand In each of playground lations of any kind ourte croquet grounds a paradeground hla hut links without a ¬ thing also swings- been basket- not most of the older boys a highly desirable but it means feet in other parks where older players can tx park for other purposes The golf players house and have Many which is used by various military and G teams They making of good citizens with an interest > f accommodated Today the old diamond be content to go tokthe parks in tho In Tompkins Square is according to the ball teams terinliteams and track wanted to do nothing but fight the niformed bodies for their drills and evotu n must competi- ¬ city of the most baseball but there are hall director the best park playground In the and among them there Is keen had been brought up in the street they in the welfare of the out ions and good facilities for boating on t is not used for remoter parts of the city carried material probably in the a dozen new diamonds to the north of the than this growth world It is situated in the heart of the tion Schedules are arranged and had never had any other place to play unpromising he park lake This Is crowded on Satur Far more remarkable the old one on the green and these are in use of popular interestin sports In the larger park with the shade of the trees on the out regularly Their ideas of fun were derived from cityThe lays and Sundays In the winter time held every Satur ¬ so parks of which average from morn till night every Wednesday and parks has been the development In the last playground and consists of an open air Competition games are dime novel and trash of that kind and ekating the great sport at Van Cortlandt throughout men and com ¬ much larger than those of pro- Saturday throughout the warm season four or five years of scientifically arranged gymnasium and a separate playground day and Wednesday afternoon they robbed the pushcart necessary nd the Ice of Is enjoyed by thou Saturday of each be- ¬ extensive courses for About twenty years ago lawn tennis conducted playgrounds for the poor for girls the summer and the lost mitted other petty depredations not vide the sands i and basket- such games on golf and polo And The began to be played in Central Park and children of the tenement house neighbor ¬ The gymnasium contains horizontal month is given to athletics The cause they wanted to rob primarily but and boroughs also make sec- ¬ by people of p sports have of two parallel tars two horses the ball play has been divided Into three because was their idea of sport Bronx parks are enjoyed the popular sports and sine that time various other hoods In certain of the smaller parks the bars that Henry- ample provision for MAl parks have been games and German side horses two bucks inclined tions seniors juniors arid midgets These And so tho gang developed and many all parts of time city Commissioner been admitted and other city Bore tho city fosters reporter amesln their parks In made available for games until today sports of various kinds by providing not and horizontal ladders flying and travelling teams in one park challenge those of the East Side boys simply for lack of proper C Schrader said to THE Surf ire permlttedbasketball archery cricket ¬ generally even the city there is scarcely any outdoor sport in only the grounds with suitable fixtures rings a running track a jumping ground- other parks and the school and settlement supervision and room to work off their The people and polo tennis boating and skating ¬ Park dulged in by Americans that is not en but also the individual in short a complete athletic field together house teams Baseball basketball and surplus energies became criminals It was officials those of the Manhattan parade ground adjoining Prospect and equipment among realize to The couraged in the parks of implements necessary such as balls of all with tennis and basketball courts tennis are tho most popular games a hard task at first to develop order among Department includeddo not ark which is used by various uniformed f 200 Central street and all parks class gradually the boys what an extent the parks of The Bronx are Thereare now tennis courts in I bats dumbbells Indian clubs and A small park at Seventeenth the boys of the such a lawless but organizations provides also thirtyone base kinds sports and recreation by the peo- Park andthey are kept in constant use even tennis rackets and furthermore- the East River has boon equipped with The boys have organized clubs of their came to see that the new Ideals were better used for all diamonds which are always thronged ple of parts of the city I really r whilethe weather permits more than 4000 it employs a corps of instructors to teach kindergarten playground for small chit own and the pride they take In them U than the old and that it was to their interest the other The tennis courts number several hUll believe The Bronx parks are more used permits having been issued this year by I the children how to play the various games ddren surprising They buy their own uniforms to play according to the rules ired and this year the Commissioner has I and ¬ rivalry- by people Manhattan than by residents- the Park Board for tennis in Central Park and bow to get the most good out of their Hamilton Fish Park at Houston Wil and they take good taro of the park prop Soon there sprang up a strong from some 6000 permits for tennis open gym- ¬ Bronx themselves and people come sued These are issued to all applying exercise lott streets has a double air too realizing that it is their property to make the team and then to win contests of The Torest Park very good golf link running athletic field erty Brooklyn and and Staten for them no discrimination or favoritism There are eight of these specially equipped nasium with track and that If It U stolen or damaged they from the teams of the other parks Today from f eighteen holes and there is a flourishing- ¬ for girls sand to enjoy our Bronx parks being shown playgrounds now In operation in Man tennis courts a playground are injured just that much the youngsters who a few years ago would Island too olf club made up of the players who use houses swings shelter sheds Ac for kin fighting them come there Is he a The old baseball diamond in Central Park hattan borough and three othersin course club tram has a separate hour have spent their time on the street We are glad to have this links This park also contains several children and two Indoor gymna- ¬ Each or Is now used for croquet This quiet game of construction which will be opened to dergarten the boys themselves help brawling and robbing pushcart men plenty of room up here for all plenty of laseball fields and tennis courts Ire boys and one for girls which for practise and good Canargle now being put is also in Mount Morris Park and the children before the present summer- siums one for the regulations The junior come into the playground park and work fresh air and plenty of facilities for Beach Park is oat F doing all through the winter to enforce to gain- any place in nto good shape with a track that it Is still enjoyed by some New Yorkers is ended That they are a splendid are used made up of boys from 7 to H years like heavens at wholesome exercise exercise I dont know of the been good Corleara Hook Park there is a play ¬ clubs arc Is of public a new outdoor gymnasiu- is shown by the fact that there havo work in giving tbese poor children At 14 to 18 a place on some team and incidentally world where there a finer set ms base- old the senior clubs of boys from building in ri- 6 Issued this year 500 croquet permits physical constitutions and training in ground with an open air gymnasium the respect of their fellows their teachers parks than we have right here in The Bronx Brooklyn approach to the Wednesdays Influences ball field tennis courts and basketball years side we Cricket is played on and reclaiming them from evil street Basketball teams of course have to be and the community- On the one have the waterfront are also imb Saturdays on part of the meadow Central in breaking up the fighting gang idea and courts And Hudson Park contains a small take neighborhood of the jtlayground park with the finest views across the Sound 10 playgrounds in wllllanwburg familiarly arranged by weight The midgets In the New sots < good children of tho lower mown as Park and at Park a score of teams holding permits in starting them on the road to Amen playground for the I 70 to SO parks the gang has been completely broken with unsurpassed bathing and boating in the youngsters averaging from n the East New York district OFilsTI i1 for using the grounds Nearly half of the canWtbenshipis asserted by those interested West Side weigh 80 to 90 pounds up and many of the lays who were the facilities Pel ham Bay Park and on the to The new playgrounds now in course of pounds the juniors Richmond Borough has not crone or u players are dark skinned men coming in the work Hpecimons wo hail to deal with other side we have the hills of Van Cort ie runs are in Park and the seniors 80 to 110 pound In the toughest so thickly as to need the a largely from the West Indies Thc firstplayground of the sort was opened construction many good when the playgrounds were first opened landt Park You cantake your choice the as the other parts of time oily and streets First ave ¬ last year we have developed Lacrosse has been played from time to about ten yearn ago in William H Seward between lllth luth studying for the law or medi- ¬ hills or the shore and be sure of beautiful iiid so no provision has been marie players The boys like It and are today < which Jefferson streets by the nue and the where one of the basketball tor sports games in its parks It ha time on special permits are issued Park at Canal and keeping thorn In the cine or some other profession scenery beautiful gardens health giving would- I outdoor gymnasiums in the world- It is good exercise = ones none of for that game whenever demanded but Outdoor Recreation League This soon largest for And not only the boys but the girls also air and plenty of accommodations and con or building De Witt Clinton Park Fifty open air and allowing small chance to adequate for very extensive games public interest in it here does not seem to demonstrated its usefulness and success s play are benefited by these playgrounds The venlences for sporta and pastimes which- ¬ to street and the North cheating orcrooked work In their GJ to the adoption of the Idea by the second Fiftyfourth kindergarten social you choose > are en Opt be large and led Volley ball and gymnastic and athletic girls are taught and ever In all the arks where Occasionally are granted to River where a fine outdoor gymnasium Dam has ouraged baseball and tennis are the most I permits cityThe enjoyed by our boys Three occupation work There are sand houses Macombs Park been fitted out tulat ¬ and complete athletic field will be ready games are also Tennis has been gainin- r practise archery in Central Park though first municipal playground was in medicine ball building blocks for the smaller chil ¬ with a big outdoor gymnasium and quarter 1 be- ¬ deep circle ball catch ball and gn in the j is not much call for that either In stituted In 1902 also in William H Seward for use by Sept and St Gabriels Park gomes many mile running track which is about popularityat a rate from there bounce ball mount ball hustle dren dancing and others for ears the people who to the t- autumn football is permitted to the Park This playground contains a double tween Thirtyfifth and Thirtysixth streets tag toll fintahod also has baseball diamond ° the club races club hustles march the larger girls It a pork that fine far outnumber r boys and a large First and Second avenues where a double ball Indian Immensely r schoolboys and in winter the greatest outdoor gymnasium for dumbbell drills wand drills The scups are popular and ten tennis courts and a number boat who therein practise any other sport sport enjoyed by the greatest numbers in playground for girls There is also a gymnasium athletic field and separate Ing evolutions LIFE ON He PRIZEFIGHTS ALWAYS A FEATURE OF L4WR Acv really regard the mat- ¬ quietly quit The ringer was a gigantic Portugwse- the way the officers not the regular navy prizefights like the these bunker battles all hands set scrap between Johnson the of twenty years or so ago and I never saw anywhere near first clue in spite of the regulation by different cry That Philadelphia Kanaka naif and half of each of those ter JohnsonCohen affair Theyre just bile the climb to the deck black from the Olympia and Cohen the one of them reach any greater point of I was serving on board the the The experienced officers blink at it evaporating battles fellows who engine room or fire room ladders sos not was her the bloods and the champion slugger of between RI- Yankee bluejacket that wound up in the whats called brutality than the average when Sharkey sent to from rigged They know the bad of a bitterness for the each to of the officer of the rtue guardo at Mare Island Hawaiian Islands This giant was time hate other attract the attention death of Cohen will probably crab the prizefight ashore The dead bad fights old Independence was allowed to go on between a pair of Nearly all of these grouch fights are r knew anything about In a bluejacket uniform and it thats deckAs regularly arranged prizefights on board aboard menowar are the impromptu Nobody on board fighter of bluejackets under the togallant focsle pulled off down below In one of the fire theyre bare knuckle affairs both men being fighter although he looked given out that he was the star Ate United States warships for a while at any bare knuckle affaire generally pulled off his a then in The old time officers have found out that CQoms or In an empty bunker for the generally get pretty thoroughly mauled care of himself another American mahowar oft and said a chief petty officer in the navy down below In the bunkers between men chunkv and able to take better that the thing should be fought cent are not supposed to know anything up in bunker scraps rate Sharkey the mitts on in the open Honolulu harbor Its they hop into their hands will therefore be missing a lot who have got it in for each other had Phila- ¬ out and done with than that a lot of other when the over r gangways not long The fight took place on board the about them The empty bunker is pro skiddoo to hay to of sport The Pacific and China stations have space between the of the men should be drawn into a quarrel that on of Its uniforms and T the Philadelphia but there delphia It lasted only two minutes erred account isolation get themselves patched up with arnica The set battles in which the men fight always been prizefighting stations for after he joined I grows head of is first round and then Sharkey landed on festers and unless the it When one of these scrape is to come courtplaster and so on puree made up by the ships officers men On the Pacific station were several big men on board who had no by decisive battle between the pair surgeon at one r fora menowar Sharkey- the Hawaiian giants law and the ringer broken a off between two bluejackets below all hands The ships knows as in the case of the JohnsonCohen fight particularly theres a lot of main deck great trouble in putting it on men been snarling at eaoh ailR all but just for the 111- like typhoon uprooted date of whove other forard know all about it In advance but what them tho> been so In navy late men and all He was vicious in these just for fun bouts went down a ot he asks them havent frequent the of boxing between the forord came to until he was Hardly a week passes that there is not very few of the men unless theyre inti- sake hotli ksa used to be the walloping- however especially after having to stand palm and never matter with their mugs Theyve years as they but theres been hands become Interested in steam cutter at least one scrap of this sort on board mates of the fellows to scrap fire room ¬ taps fellow sneaked ashore in the scheduled fallen down an engine room or a more class in the arranged fights during the art Good men are developed in theprog for a few from the other that most the promise of fei trip he bulled That was the last of Sharkeys fights menowar with a expect Invitations to the mixup There ladder thats answer hill ° last ten years or so than there was when the ress of the bouts and whentheships get stung hini a bit and several times > i in the navy They didnt try after that to heavier battle to follow isnt room in a bunker for more than two down the ladder at the same time isnt- mtx bps were more common During the to cruising together the men of each in as if for blood and laid his man out down different ladders licked His time was up soon A bluejacket for instance seats himself or threes friends of each man sir ¬ last decade seen some fights between ship are put up against each other nearly After that they gradually began to be get him curious mutters the sur F Ive temper after and he quickly took rank as one of on anothers ditty box When the owner With one second each and a referee Hmthats eye then M i big fellows on menowar that wouldnt always by arrangement and subscription afraid of him on account of his and a twinkle in his along In the good heavyweights of the country of the ditty box orders the squatter to get agreed upon the enemies naked to the scribbles an account of their injuries in m r looked bad to 5 a head sports around of the officers his strength and passed him the html + lIe ¬ practise Sharkey off it the squatter hands him a bunch of waist go at it The men are not allowed- log orders the sick eJ ring ashor- of professional fighters gangway bouts after knockoff In the after- It was the incessant that sick ba and aro Moreover a lot nigh his men come together a few wal- ¬ to fight to Brews wound unpopular among got in the navy with men pretty talk The roughandtumble Theyve got l en the old days the frequently arranged good second rate men as often as not noon Sharkey became exchanged And the end of the bunker Sep strength and plenty of them his lops are and then the men to observe the rules of the game and their thats I f time aeutl- fights were between plugs with no boxing are shipped out at the Mare Island Yard the men of the Philadelphia on account equal in Fifteen minutes after omen in boxing that sent him along BO draw apart both being wise to it that the shipmates are present to see that they do head er Vill but just swinging blffors as often as San the leading fight town of his craggy temper which ho seemed superiors sick bay with bandages around Franciscos when he shed his bluejacket uniform Jimmy Legs Is liable to he hovering around oho the rules liulment hanging not and the miiups would occasionally in the country now and San Francisco to maKe no effort to overcome so a number fast and a strong event Ho says so and he ought to know somewhere and neither of om caring fur I saw one of these between enemies liable t be develop rough be- enough of them began to snoop around on board himself around them n ditty into and tumble affairs scrappers who are not in brig Went bangedup heads together over The bare knuckle scraps on board ship a trick the in which the two fortyeIght rounds their t 1f p 1Q1- tween principals with money fighting game out I the other ships trying to find a man capable alma the their partisans to get the in the UX I1I < licking him between men who are sore on each other A little thing like thnt will Mtart a grouch and they were H bungedup taking wallops at each other on the side there ship for a cruise or so in the nay I of picked up In their cruisinc e4 nowadays as they between a couple of men grown peevish of satlormen when they a Tharos been a good deal of pains taken when they find themselves up against it They put man after man up against are Just as common both consented to Atn- t I no way stopping and snappy after long cruising and after quit and patch up in the manowar fights of recent years ashore Sharkey in the gangway bouts but tho ever were and theres of their quarrel As a A Cougars HlRli Leap SSi i a regulation against this theyve growled and glared at each other general thing though s to have the men In Unitrate trim when they the way It w with Sharkey- Irishman was coming so fast with steady them Theres one of the men In the Junction fHu Thats i course Wit a certain length looked these is From fm hU got together and to have them as evenly He was a clumsy fellow with nothing practise on board ship that he put them sort of fighting of but tin for oftime bunker fights licked before the Frank came in last fk from to by all hands to bring Parker m matched ox Thats why I cant but strength and the ability to stand any all away easily deadest of all naval regulations fornrd the thing to tenth round ranch in the Coast llnnse souls thirn to It to of finish and then dry up man m that VY Quit quite understand the fight between the amount of grueling before he found him- ¬ When the Philadelphia got down to If theyd try enforce the letter a the of tho If the men are unequally matched and went of hero Mo Informed regulation a lot of the best nallormen two whos got what he thinks In the bigger one of them Is getting sorely nights before IIP left they heard rna man from the Olympia and the man from self on the fritz in San Francisco and Honolulu for a lung stay in Hawaiian waters the the worst of It in t on would be in the grievance is carefully watched by the men In tho early stages all hands of a rackPMbout the place mil n bhtla the Yankee that cashed in the Yankee shipped in the navy up at the Mare Island the men on board the ship who had it in for board a manowar In the bunker al 0 cat ileail I Bbarkey something been mono snips brig from one end of the year to the forard to nce If hA makes any preliminary take a hand In pulling the two apart their house f f lei d yard He to develop himself- did that had If the l < i an eight rail hadachance got arranging n The animal p manIve ¬ times previously in the other Fighting between men whove moves toward fight with the two men are about of a sort as to R seen a good of these regu- In tho navy so when he quit the service only two or three ability without 1411 and his that a 1I 111 ht navy scrapping they put Sharkey a grouch against each is what youd other fellow Ho almost always does thoyre allowed tn go ori until one of With the Ml t noe n coifir- dI larly arranged fights on board ship since I he wasnt a bad sort of a rrj allhou h history of them dOg whUh proved to be necessary evil to the navy and thats The fights thus fixed Up however lire l well thrashed At the windup animal Fret began to Bleep in a canvas bag a matter none of us in tM navy ever counted him up against a ringer calla of one of WM treed WbI lWfs t r A N a r J T i r r flji