. Book of the Royal blue . POOL AND BILLIARD ItOOM IN CLUB HOUSE. The upper floor of one of the l)uildiiii;sis devoted to a readiiifr-room, witli all peri-odicals, and a card-room. Another buildinir is devoted to a gym-nasium on the lower floor and billiard andpool room on the upper floor. For the outdoor sports the association hasthe very best baseball and lacrosse fields,with most substantial auditoriums for spec-tators. There are seven modern scalpedtennis courts, and a number of tennis teamsfor playing local organizations have beenformed. Baseball, the never-tiring national game,naturally
. Book of the Royal blue . POOL AND BILLIARD ItOOM IN CLUB HOUSE. The upper floor of one of the l)uildiiii;sis devoted to a readiiifr-room, witli all peri-odicals, and a card-room. Another buildinir is devoted to a gym-nasium on the lower floor and billiard andpool room on the upper floor. For the outdoor sports the association hasthe very best baseball and lacrosse fields,with most substantial auditoriums for spec-tators. There are seven modern scalpedtennis courts, and a number of tennis teamsfor playing local organizations have beenformed. Baseball, the never-tiring national game,naturally has more devotees than any of theother games, the association having ten dis-tinct teams, all of which are remarkablygood. Team No. 1, which is the best, is mostappropriately called The Roj-al Blueteam. Team No. 2 is the Suburban team; andthe other eight are known as the depart-mental league. Although the season has but fairly begun,the Royal Blue team ,has made quite a. BOWLING ALLEY IN CLUB HOUSE. RAILWAY ATHLETICS. rei)utation tor itself in and al)out Haltinioreby winning all of the ganies it lias played,notwithstanding some of the professionalball teams are among the number. As shown in the illustrations, the club-house buildings extend out over the water,and as the Patapsco River empties intothe Chesapeake Bay a few miles below thecity, unusual possibilities are offered in thisparticular branch of athletics, and before the season is advanced much farther it isexpected that a full Heet of sail l)oats, rowboats and canoes will have been formed. The possibilities of the benefits to bederived from an organization of this kind ina great railway corporation can only besurmised; that it will tend to interest theemployes in their work, rather than to de-tract attention from their work, must beconceded.
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