The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-06
WHISPERS OF cine Wheel.


Counsellor William d. Salter aad
Henry G. Vogel. of the Pamrapo Athletic
Club, have been making q number OF
tours to places of interest in this vicinity
upon their safety bicycles.
Luther Vaudeville and Mr.. Smith. of
the Hudson County Wheelmen, left town
early yesterday morning upon their
wheels for a run to Philadelphia. Before
returning they will spend several days
among the Pennsylvania hills.
Messrs. George Allen and John Griffin,
of the Hudson County Wheelmen, are ar
ranging for an early run up tina Hudson
on their steeds of steel.
Jacob w. Cornwall and Edward P.
Baggott, of the Hudson County Wheel
men, are sojourning at Lake George.
They will leisurely make their way home
ward on their wheels.
The Atlantic Wheelmen, of Newark,
will make q visit to the New Jersey Ath-
letic Clubs contingent of cyclists on Sun
day August Is.
Six cyclists have been entered from the
New Jersey Athletic Clubs contingent
for the individual championship meeting
of the National Amateur Athletic Union
on the grounds of the Brooklyn Athletic
Association OIL Saturday, September Z.
All About Athletes,
At the athletic games of the Sons of
St. George in Trenton yesterday w. G.
French and Thomas Namack, of the New
Jersey Athletic Club, finished first and
second respectively in the SS0-yards run,
and E. Z. Barnes, their club mate, won
the 40 yarns run.
The Jersey City Young Mems Christian
Association will hold a cross-country run
from their gymnasium rooms, on Newark
avenue, tomorrow night,
Bill Hook, the English pugilist who was
defeated by Jimmy Larkin, the champion
light weight, a month ago, started for
England on Saturday. Alex Gallagher,
who whipped Jake Valinski, the Hoboken
light weight, went with him, much to the
surprise of his friends. Alex expects to
get on q match with some crack English
man in England, and Hook says he will
see that he gets fair play. Hook will re-
turn to this country the latter part of
September.
Buzzard Athletic Association, ofthis city,
challenges n man in the Horseshoe dis
trict to try conclusions with him at reel
and Jig dancing for SIS a side. Man and
money can be found at Dan Gallagher's,
corner Provost street and Pavonia ave-
nue. any evening during the week.
Vandermost, the speedy half mile racer
of this city, has been elected an honorary
member Of the Lorillard Debating and
Athletic Association.
+. j. Mccoy, the noted amateur sprint
runner and jumper of Hudson county, has
again taken to the cinder path.
Chris. A. Holderman, the noted ANA
teur swimmer of Communipaw, and E.
jerks, of the New Jersey Athletic Club,
are training together nightly for the
swimming championship at the boathouse
of the N. j.. A. G.
Peter Skillman, the three-mile amateur
champion, runner, who is a resident Of
this city, i~sspending this week in Chicago.
Cassidy, the distance runner of this
city, will show up in good form at the
cross country runs this fall.
Since the organization of the Bergen a.
G. the Adams brothers have won four
prizes under the clubs colors.
The Games Committee of the Loriilard
Debating and Athletic Association, of
this city, have fixed September Z as the
date for holding their fall games. They
will. as usual, occur at C~aledonian Park,
on the Heights. The medals will be
something very handsome.
p. MeAnenery, of the Turkey Buzzard
A. c., would like to arrange a prize
waitzing contest with any couple in Hud-
son county for a gold medal, the loser to
evening at the s. A. A, G. headquarters,
No. 435 Grove street.
The newly organized Bergen Athletic
Club, of the Heights, is gaining rapidly
in. membership and the. names of many
good amateur athletes appear on the
Membership roll. Many OF them will
Join in the fall athletic meetings.