Combined Families 1923 — Hoopes Tennis Club

Tennis anyone?

“Due to the courtesy of Mrs. Maurice Hoopes, the Hoopes tennis court has been placed in shape by a group of young men living in the east end of the city, and these young men are planning to organize a private club,” The Post-Star reported on June 9, 1923.

A road match was being arranged against the Saratoga Recreation Club, while work was ongoing.

“The Hoopes Tennis Club will hold an invitational tournament immediately. Letters are being sent out to all the better players of the city. … All players who enter this tournament will automatically become members of the club and may consider themselves free to use the court at any time during the season.”

The new club was the third tennis club in Glens Falls and Queensbury — the others being the Glens Falls Recreation Club and the Glens Falls Country Club.

“Probably there will be hot matches between the trio before the season is over.”

In other 1923 news about the daughters of Samuel Pruyn and their families collected from historic newspapers of the region:

• Mary Hoopes and Charlotte Hyde were among about 100 people that attended a charity reception which contralto Louise Homer hosted at Bolton Landing, The Lake George Mirror reported on Sept. 20.
• Maurice Hoopes was captain of Team 1 of solicitors for the Glens Falls Community Chest Campaign, The Post-Star reported on June 12.

Finch, Pruyn & Co., the family-owned paper company, contributed $9,000.

Louis and Charlotte Hyde contributed $3,000.

Maurice and Mary Hooped contributed $3,750.

Nell Pruyn contributed $300.

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