As NY1 takes a look-back at the history of Staten Island, courtesy of the archives at the Museum of the City of New York, borough reporter Amanda Farinacci filed the following report on how the island once hosted many fox hunts and is home to the oldest continuously-operated cricket club in the country.

More than 125 years ago, groups of men dressed in all-white arrived at Staten Island's Walker Park to prepare for a game of cricket, as women in long dresses and carrying parasols stood watching, waiting for the excitement to unfold.

"They certainly had money, and they dressed up, just like the people going to the beach resorts, they dressed up," says historian Carlotta DeFillo of Historic Richmond Town. "How they could play sports dressed like this, I don't know."

The Staten Island Cricket Club was founded back in 1872 and made its permanent home at Walker Park, where it is still played today. The original members were primarily officers of the British armed forces who had migrated to the United States.

Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge, for whom the Staten Island bridge is named, used to play cricket there. His sister, Mary Ewing Outerbridge, is credited with bringing back lawn tennis to the park from a vacation in Bermuda.

"I guess they played it because here was a nice firmly packed piece of ground to do it on," says DeFillo.

However, nowadays the field at Walker Park is mostly used by children playing baseball and football.

At around the same time cricket became popular, fox hunting was also a fad among Staten Islanders.

One New York Times article from November 1887 on the fox hunts reads in part, "A fox, a real live fox, fresh from the depths of West Virginia, where foxes grow bald-headed from much thinking up of crafty schemes, got a practical acquaintance yesterday with a share of Staten Island's topography. On his trail, for part of the way, bravely rode many charming maidens and dashing young men of a brand-new hunt club."

"There's probably nothing more iconically elitist than the fox hunt," says Sarah Henry of the Museum of the City of New York.

Fox hunting was wildly popular for a short period of time and took place on the grounds of what is now the Richmond County Country Club, where today, you'll be lucky to see a squirrel.

"Fox hunting began to dwindle as the encroachment of development curtailed the amount of time and space that was available," says Dr. Thomas Matteo, a borough historian. "And then that turned into the Richmond County Country Club. They created tennis courts and eventually their golf courts."

So you won't be hearing "Tallyho!" on Staten Island anytime soon.