Cromarty Tennis Club - History of the Club ~ Early Pictures

C R O M A R T Y T E N N I S C L U B

Founded 1902

Cromarty Tennis Club, 65 Cromarty Street, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada (Image postmarked September 25, 1908)

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EARLY PICTURES

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c. July, 1902

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Some Details

Helen Creighton NSARM Album 12, No. 227, misdated c. 1919, Nova Scotia Archives, "Sydney tennis courts"

http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/creighton/archives.asp?ID=554

[Sydney Lawn Tennis Club], Courts 1 and 2 in foreground, Courts 3 and 4 in rear
The Club house (built by 1905) has not yet been constructed. Today's Court 2 (then Court 1) and its backstop appear to be still under construction.

Helen Creighton, born 1899, would not have taken this picture.

1908

"At Play on the Tennis Courts, Sydney, C.B."
Please notice the Club House and the two grass courts
(Court 3 and Court 4 (foreground). Eight Players And One Umpire Or Line Judge.
Postmarked 25 September, 1908. Copyright History Collection of the Nova Scotia Museum (Postcard)

http://museum.gov.ns.ca/imagesns/html/40866.html [Photo No: 94.31.26 History Collection of the Nova Scotia Museum]

Scott Robson, Curator, History Collection, Nova Scotia Museum looked in another source for info: "Post Cards of Cape Breton Island", by Ken C. MacDonald (printed by Scotia Stamp Studio, Halifax, about 1988). MacDonald dates all postcards published by Albert M. MacLeod as between 1906 and 1911. The tennis court image is on MacDonald's list for MacLeod's cards that were printed in Belgium, between 1906 and 1909.

Furthermore, according to Robson, the base photo was b&w, and a publisher might have presumed that the ground was grass even if not. The texture is not clear in the original postcard image.

1912

AUGUST

Twelfth Nova Scotia Lawn Tennis Association Tournament- Sydney


Nova Scotia Tennis Tournament Sydney - August 1912		Mr. Kimber, Miss Lydia, Miss Silver	Miss O. Owen - Champion 1910-1911		M. Freeman - N. Warren

Charles Freeman Collection - Photos Provided by Ian MacIntosh (Sydney, Cape Breton )

1918

"CITY CLUB" - CITY TENNIS CLUB


"City Club" Tennis Courts Sydney - NS. - -1918-		"Club House" City Tennis Club - Sydney - - 1918 -

Charles Freeman Collection - Photos Provided by Ian MacIntosh (Sydney, Cape Breton)

c. LATE 1920s

This is a picture taken during a break in a tennis match dated c. late 1920s. The picture is a series of 4 photographs placed together. No longer grass, the courts have changed to clay.

Notable features, besides that of the players themselves, are the numerous straw boaters - a traditional hat for tennis matches of the period - the variety of ladies summer hats, boys wool caps, and a number of vehicles, including, perhaps two Ford Model T's (1908-1928), one with its roof clearly raised into position.

The 4-door limousine with the spare on the fender and distinctive door handle locations is reminiscent of at least 6 vehicle types: Phianna (1916-1921), Packard (1920 Model 3-35 Twin-Six Sedan), Pierce Arrow (1921 Model 32 Vestibule Sedan), Lincoln (1922-1928 Limousine - for example Lincoln 4-passenger 2-window sedan by LeBaron ), the Franklin (1924 Model C and 1926 Model A Sedan) and the Studebaker 4 Door Sedan (1918-1927). Most likely, it is the Studebaker 4 Door Sedan, of a c. 1923-1924 vintage.

Most, if not all, of the houses still exist today.

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