The outdoor amusements consisted principally of baseball and croquet, the latter being then in the height of its popularity. Every house, with a piece of level lawn, boasted a croquet ground and parties were of frequent occurrence. There was some rowing on the Hudson, but it was confined to members of the Boat Club which had its boathouse at the north end of Riverdale dock. There was a baseball club at Riverdale and one at Spuyten Duyvil, and matches were played between them, usually on a level piece of land at the Spuyten Duyvil belonging to the Cox Estate [This is the same field in Henry Hudson Park where the South Riverdale Little League plays today]. Here also were held athletic games, which were quite important events socially. This was before the days of lawn tennis, which grew fast in popularity. The first tennis court and set I ever saw, and I believe the first to appear in this section, was on the lawn of the Polo Club at Jerome Park, the racing association situation on Jerome Avenue to the east of Kingsbridge Heights. It was organized by the late James Gordon Bennett and several other young men of wealth and fashion, and polo was played there for several seasons. The club had an attractive clubhouse with a handsome ballroom, where Mr. and Mrs. George H. Bend, of Riverdale, gave a cotillion, an elegant and fashionable affair. The club, I think, the introducer of polo in the United States. Together with the race course, it lasted only a few years, and there lay idle until purchased by New York City as a site for the present reservoir. Golf was first introduced to this neighborhood by a small, private club which laid out a nine-hole links in Van Cortlandt Park having that privilege in consideration of allowing the public to play upon it certain days in the week when it was not being used by the members. The oldest golf club in the country was that of Saint Andrews, at Yonkers; formed by the late John Reed. The links at Van Cortlandt eventually came under the sole control of the City, and extended to the present 18-hole course. I have previously mentioned the Riverdale Archery Club.