Click here to return to the home page. The new West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills adjacent to the Jamaica bound Forest Hills Long Island Railroad Station (c. 1914)

The new West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills adjacent to the Jamaica bound Forest Hills Long Island Railroad Station (c. 1914). "[The West Side Tennis Club on Central Park West in Manhattan] had made up its mind to move elsewhere. [At a meeting on Sept. 17, 1912], the chairman [of the relocation committee], Calhoun Craigin, described an ideal location suitable for holding the national championships someday. [A] fantastic place, 10 acres that could be had for $72,000. It was located in Kew Gardens.

The members did not share his enthusiasm, objecting to the location and the railfare from the city. At the rather stormy meeting [on Dec. 3, 1912 a] second vote showed a majority of approximately two to one in favor of the Forest Hills site as compared with Kew Gardens and a contract with the Sage Foundation Homes Company was therefore approved."

[Abridged from "Forest Hills", By Robert Minton, pp. 40 - 42 (J.P. Lippincott Co. 1975)]