The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-31
SPORT And RECREATION
The Labor Day Regatta of
the New York Yacht
Racing Assoc
citation.
MISCELLANEOUS SPORTING NEWS.
Baseball Games for Labor Day.
Gossip Of the Glubs--A New
Chowder Coterie---Pennant Con-
tests and Records.

The recently organized New YORK
Yacht Racing Association will celebrate
Laor Day by holding, on New York Bay,
its first grand union regatta. and the
event gives promise of being one OF the
most important features of aquatic sport
on this seasons calendar.
The entries in the sixteen classes Tor
which prizes have been secured are
numerous, and the surface of the bay
viii, for several hours on Monday, present
one of the prettiest marine panoramas
that has ever been witnessed in the har-
Dor.
The craft will range from schooners
forty feet and over and slOopS between
twenty and sixty feet down to little cat
boats under twenty feet. The following
clubs, all members of the organization,
will be Observation-Disclosures Harlem,
Hudson River, Yonkers, Corinthians,
Sing Sing, Tappan Zee, Williamsburgh,
Staten Island, Jersey City, PavOnia, New
Jersey, Newark, Newark Bay and CEDAR
Point. The magnificent iron steamboat
Cygnus will accompany the yachts over
the course.
There will be four courses of varying
distances for the several classes OF yachts.
The start will be made at eleven O'Clock
in the morning from Liberty Island.
Newark VS.. Norwalk at Oakland Park.
AL l1dI1ulC E1ooOAl1ttOA iAtAh
game between the Newark and Norwalk
clubs will be played at Oakland Park, on
the Heights, on the morning of Labor
Day, thus affording the people of this
city and vicinity a chance to
baseball within the limits or
the county. Baker, the celebrated Cali
fornian twirler, will pitch for the Little
Giants, and Sullivan will be his backstop.
Sworbach, once of the New Yorks and re-
Gently with New Haven, will probably
twirl for the Connecticut club.
Some Labor Day Baseball Games.
On the Avenue A grounds at Bergen
Point the team of the New Jersey Ath-
letic Club will encounter, Monday after
noon, for the second time this season, the
strong semi-professional Hackett, Car
hart & Co.'s nine. HE
. The team of the Bayonne Rowing and
Athletic Association, and the nine of the
Pamrapo Athletic Club will contest Mon
day morning on Avenue b, Bayonne,
grounds another game for the local
Championship.
The Johnstons, of Lafayette, will cross
bats with the Empires, of this city, on
Monday afternoon, on the Johnston ave-
nue. grounds.
On Monday morning the team of the
Greenville Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation will play the Crescents, of
West Bergen, on the grounds theof
West Bergen Athletic Club. Miller and
Hargin, and Leecraft and Merritt will be
the batteries of the respective teams.
A good game OF ball will occur on Mon
day afternoon on the Avenue b, Bay
onne grounds. the contrasting mines
being the semi-professional champions of
this vicinity, the AGNES, of New York
: otto, and the team of the Bayonne Row
ing and Athletic Association.
The Puritans, of Greenville, will tackle
the team of the Greenyil1e Young Mems
Christian Association On Monday after
noon on the Avenue e grounds at Green
vile. Carey and Woodward will be in
the points for the Puritans and Duhine
and Carson will act as the other Mines
battery.
A number of games will occur between
the local clubs of North Hudson on Labor
Day.
At Allerton Park, Weehawken, the
Barnetts and Sycamore Juniors will cross
bats on Labor Day.
Monday morning the Puritans, of
Greenville, will meet the team of the lro-
quois Athletic Club, of Bergen Point, on
the Avenue E grounds at Greenville. The
batteries will respectively be Peters and
Baker and Griest and Wheeler.