Excerpt from History of the Staten Island Cricket and Tennis Club, 1872-1917, Livingston, Staten IslandIn 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.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.