History of the Staten Island Cricket and Tennis Club, 1872-1917, Livingston, Staten Island #227097

In those days there were but few Cricket or Amateur Baseball Clubs in the neighborhood. Golf was almost unknown among the people at large, and the gen eral interest in athletics, that has since grown to such great proportions, was in its infancy in this country. This Club, therefore, would seem to be one of the few or ganizations still in active existence, that was among the pioneers in that really great movement — the introduction of Amateur sports a movement that has meant so much to the men of this country and to their posterity, and has made, we think, for the betterment of the nation, both in body and soul.