The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-10-20
THRIVING JERSEY SPORT
The North Elizabeth Track
Proves Popular and Sue
CeSSfu1.
BASEBALL CRANKs GO WILD
While They Watch the Giants Get
Away with the BridegrOoms.
BASEBALL CRANKs GO WILL

There was no disappointment in the
character of the racing at North Eliza
beth yesterday, the large crowd present
resembling those assembled at the race
tracks during the heighth of the summer
season. Although the fields were exceed
ingly large, the scratches were few.
Favorites were in the main successful,
but, saving in the case of Badge. for the
second race, at a mile and furlong, good
odds were invariably obtaiDable. The
secret of the great popularity of the day
was the very fact of favorites winning, as
they were, in the main, thoroughbreds OF
no mean calibre, the list of starters yes
terday including some of the best per-
morers of the year.
Notwithstanding counter attractions at
the Washington Park baseball game in
Brooklyn, where many familiar racetrack
frequenters were seen, the crowd at Eliza
beth was very large, testing to the utmost
the track accommodations, which will be
ample when completed, but are at present
somewhat crude and unfinished. The
railroad accommodations were proved
fully equal to the increased demands, and
race goers are beginning to realize how
pleasant it is to be served by a com
pany alive to their interests. The New
Jersey Central dispatches trains from all
of the grand stand at half hourly inter
walls, and the result on Saturday was that
a1arge percentage of the crowd had found
its way from Newark, Elizabeth and other
New Jersey towns, to add to the crowd of
regulars from Jersey City, New York and
Brooklyn.
Two more days of the first half of the
meeting remain, Monday and Tuesday,
and on Wednesday next the opening Of
the Linden Park Association is an
nounced; This association has laid out q
new track and racing property, which the
projectors confidently expect will prove
very popular with racegoers The track
has been laid out on the newest and most
approved lines, with a perfect drainage
system, and has a five furlong straight
course. The moving power is M j. Z.
Kelly, veteran racing man, who has
spared neither labor nor money to attain
perfection in every detail. Captain j. H.
Coster secretary of the Monmouth Park
Association, will be secretary here and
Mr.. Croft, also of the same association
will attend to all the business detail.
AT Gutenberg workmen are hard at
work preparing for the winter season.
The services of Mr.. Samuel Whitehead,
who Is not only an able secretary, but
very popular with horse owners, have
again been secured, and Mr.. j. T. Cald-
well has been engaged to start. The ad-
mirers of Mr.. j. G.. Carr, who proved such
a general favorite with the flag last sea-
son would like TO see him again knock
down the little red flag, but his duties
are so manifold that he gladly avoids
that position as long as possible 1t has
not been decided Just who the judges
will be, but the club will see TO it that
such gentlemen are appointed who will
not only vigorously guard the interests of
the public but horse owners besides.
The meeting will not begin this season
until Tuesday. November IT,
Culture.
person returned from Japan,
Said. AT once will try il / can
Speak pure japanese,
With correctness and ease,
Like q cultured and travelled young man.
-Hdrper's Young People.