The Chinese Sports Club (Cosmos)

The Chinese Sports Club started informally in 1924 and when it acquired its own sports pavilion and ground at Thomas Lands in 1931, it formally started as an off-shoot of the Chinese Association at Lot 3, Brickdam where billiards and other indoor games and meetings were still held.

In 1932, it was decided to amalgamate with the Narcissus Tennis Club of La Penitence which had been started in 1909 comprising Chinese lawn tennis players.

Cricket, tennis, hockey and basketball were the club's main outdoor games but the Club shone at hockey. In 1961, eight of its members were selected to tour with the national hockey team which won the first and only Quadrangular Hockey Tournament between British Guiana, Trinidad, Jamaica and Barbados. By 1974, it had the leading Hockey team in Guyana, winning all the hockey tournaments that year.

In May 1945, a larger Pavilion was built and all indoor activities were now transferred from the Chinese Association to the Chinese Sports Club at Thomas Lands.

In 1963, it was decided that membership of the club should no longer be restricted to Chinese but should be opened to all races. The Club's name was also changed to Cosmos Sports Club.

By 1984, most of the Chinese members of the Club had emigrated and it was decided to merge Cosmos Sports Club with the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club and to rename the club the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club.

Read an article about Chinese in Guyanese Sports by Godfrey Chin

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