r UdMaiitotiBtoiriB- i- 1 < t t T 1t e r r ft STTNTTAY t AtBWSf 27 1905 I6 tl1l mrNi t IN TilEe PARKS I 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 Bronx Park which ii mainly given over to the Botanical Garden 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 Pelham Bay Park 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 HAMILTON 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 Hamilton Fish Park 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 Central Park 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 John Jay Park 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 The Bronx 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