The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-27
GOSSIP OF THE CLUBS.
Doings of Hudson County People who
Find Pleasure in Sport.


Doings of Hudson County People who
Find Pleasure in Sport.
DR.. E. johnson, of the Hudson County
Wheelmen. started yesterday on a wheel
ing tour through Maine.
Benjamin Dixon, of the Jersey City Y.
M. G. A., is doing good practice work at
long distance running. He can now
cover a mile in something less than five
minutes.
The New Jersey Athletic Club is MAX
ing no practical objection to its athletes
practic1ng on the club grounds on Sun
day, and many of the members who felt
aggrieved at the clubs recent action now
express themselves as quite satisfied.
Each year some one of the athletic clubs
make more strenuous efforts than the
others, thus bidding for the title of the
greatest club. This year the New Jersey
Athletic Club, with the pluck which al
ways seems TO characterize the much
maligned Jerseymen, seem on the road to
high favor.
The Atlantic Boat Club, of Hoboken,
has decided to hold its annual regatta on
the Hudson off Gutenberg on Saturday,
August 10.
Peter jackson, the colored Australian,
will appear next week at Cronheim's The
aTre in Hoboken and will give sparring
exhibitions. 1t is not yet decided who
will meet him.. .
A pair-oared gig crew and a %four-oared
barge crew have been put in training for
the forthcoming Harlem River regatta by
the Rosedale Boat Club, of Hoboken.
Zach A. Cooper, the coming jumping
champion, will compete in the all-round
championship of the Amateur Athletic
Union on the grounds of the Brooklyn
Athletic Association on Saturday, Sep
TENDER z. Having become q member of
that organization, he will wear the en-
blem of the New Jersey Athletic Club.
During the several tournaments of the
Bergen Point Lawn Tennis Club the
courts Of the organization will not be open
to the use of the members of the Junior
Tennis Club.
Druggist Frank Eveland, of the Hudson
County Wheelmen. is making arrange
ments for starting early next week on g
cycling trip to Hyde Park, Mass, and
through the Berkshire Hills. Mr.. and
Mrs. Cozzin and Prof. Hamlin will ac-
company him.
Cal Mccarthy will go to Pittsburg next
week to meet some of the bantams of that
city in glove contests.
Tomorrow is the date scheduled for the
fight between Dan Clarity, of this city,
and Hite Peckham, of Oneida, N. Y, for
$3.50 side. The battle will be to q finish.
Members of the Jersey City Y. M. C. A.
have organized Il cross-country team that
includes such well known James as Viii
liam f. Loughran, J. L. Covert, Charles
Rollins, Daniel K. Walls, Benjamin
Dixon and Captain Dumont, of the base
ball team.
Richard Irvine rattles off a hundred
yards at Caledonian Park every evening
in less than eleven seconds. He is rapidly
improving as a Splinter.
benjamin Dixon, of the Jersey City
Y, M. C. A, is training for the mile and
half yoila I.1nS IN nppnr at an opnotaJr
athletic tournament in New York city on
Wednesday, July 81.
Arrangement for a monster athletic
meeting to be held on Wednesday,
September II, in the Union Hill Schuet-
zen Park, are being made by the Anal
gamated Societies of the Ancient Order
of Foresters of Hudson county.
The preliminaries have been arranged
for a finish fight between Mickey Rush
and Jim" Delury, both of this city. 1t
is to come off within two weeks for 800 o
side.
Jimmy Boyle, of Hoboken, has issued a
challenge to fight with skin tight gloves
to a finish, for u purse OF from $3.50 to $500,
any man in Hoboken.
William Kenny, of the New Jersey Ath-
letic Club, is training on the Bergen
Point grounds of his club for distance
events. He will compete in all the open
country fixtures of the approaching fall,
anu Will 0uQGdNOE " SCp Ou ulo uldlCl
with Recap, of the Athletic Club of the
Scnuylkill Navy during the indoor
season. This was set down for last season
at the Orange Athletic Club, but was de-
ferred for private reasons.
The Third District Association will go
on a fishing excursion to Princes Bay, S.
l., next Wednesday morning. At seven
O'Clock the tugboat Robert Robinson
will leave the foot of Morris street with
the eXcursionists, refreshments and fish
ing tackle ON board. The officers of the
association, President William Herbert,
Secretary Martin Kelly and Treasurer
Patrick Kelly, with Messrs. William
Hogan and John Mccartney, have cha G
of the arrangements.
Sidney S. Schuyler, of G~reenville, some
wears ago prominent as a sprfnter and
high Jumper, has severed his connection
with The New York Athletic Club to join
the New Jersey Athletic Club, under
whose colors he will hereafter compete.
Peter d. Skillman, of the New York
Athletic Club, and a resident of this city,
does his training Oh the grounds of the
New Jersey Athletic Club at Bergen
Point. Pete will make a try at Carter's
record at the September championship
meeting of the Amateur Athletic Union.
Martin Hammel, the first president of
the old Wayne Atlantic Club, has returned
to the track, Some years ago he was one
of the fastest sprinters in Hudson county.
Members of the New Jersey Athletic
Club are putting forth efforts to get up a
match team race for their fall games be-
tween'Rich, Banker, Shaefer, Schumacher,
of the Berkeley Athletic Club, and Kluge,
Brown, Baggott and Bowman, of their
own organization.