New Sportsmens Club Organized: Lloyds Neck Club to Encourage Aviation--Polo Field and Mile Race Course to Be Built., Daily Racing Form, 1918-10-23

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NEW SPORTSMENS CLUB ORGANIZED Lloyds Neck Club to Encourage Aviation Polo Field and Mile Race Course to Be Built New York October 22 The Lloyds Neck Club with Reginald C Vanderbilt as president has been incorporated and has taken a large tract of land at Lloyds Neck L L for the purpose of promoting the science of aviation including both land and sea work Many nationally important business men are members The aim is to supply the Government with a valuable school for aviators aviatorsThe The vicepresidents of the club are Harry Payne Whitney and Lawrence Lewis Gillespie Samuel Willets is secretary and Henry Sanderson treas ¬ urer urerThe The primary purp0 of the organization is pat ¬ riotic It is designed to encourage the study of aviation and practice in the use of hydroplanes The club has taken 200 acres facing Long Island Sound a few miles from Oyster Bay and Hunting ton thirtynine miles from the Queensboro Bridge The automobile roads leading to the property are excellent Two and onehalf miles of the tract fronts on the water waterA A farm house and portable barracks will afford accommodations for men who take postgraduate instruction The timber supply in the immediate neighlKirhood makes the extensive use of coal un ¬ necessary It is intended that the club shall be ¬ come a social center after the war and u club house will be erected in keeping with the ideas of the sponsors sponsorsAn An eighteen hole golf course 0000 yards long has already been surveyed under the direction of Hevereux Emmet i noted amateur A polo field and race course of a mile also are projected Vaunting is to receive much attention A limited number of persons Jiot connected with military service and aviation will be accepted as members The New York offices are at 501 FifUi avenue


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