Club records sparse between 1886 and 1913. Alexander M. Crane elected FMTC President (1903-1904 & 1906)

Alexander M. Crane, Third President of the Club in 1903, 1904 and 1906 and son of Alexander B Crane, distinguished Scarsdale landowner
Alexander M. Crane, Third President of the Club in 1903, 1904 and 1906 and son of Alexander B Crane, distinguished Scarsdale landowner
Alexander M Crane ( -1936) was president of the Crane-Berkley Corporation, a real estate company which developed several large subdivisions in Scarsdale, principally a community known as Berkley, named for the ancestral Crane town in Massachusetts
SI June 4 1903
Scarsdale Inquirer June 4, 1903

Information about the Club is sparse between 1886 and 1913, when a new regime of record-keepers and minutes-takers took charge.

There are some tantalizing fragments of information, however. Women were not only members before the 1913 reorganization; they also served on the Board of Governors, and one woman was president of the Club for at least two years, 1907 and 1909.

Her election was described in a 1907 Scarsdale Inquirer:

“Owing to an oversight, we have omitted any account of the annual meeting of the Scarsdale Lawn Tennis Club, which took place on the third Thursday of April, at the residence of Colonel Crane. Mr. Alexander M. Crane, the president, directed the meeting. The following officers were elected:

President, Miss Hopeton Drake Atterbury; vice-president, Rupert W. K. Anderson; secretary, Harry Van Cortlandt Fish; treasurer, Robert Campbell Winmill; governing committee, Alexander M. Crane, Miss Isabel F. Atterbury, Rev. L. R. Schuyler, Charles C. D. Gott, John H. Hyatt.”

Source: Diana Reische, Fox Meadow Tennis Club – The First Hundred Years, 1983

SI May 5 1904
Scarsdale Inquirer May 5, 1904