The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-29
His Friends Will Give an
Athletic Exhibition
Tonight in the
Scots Rooms.
BEGAN KNOCKS OUT FLANAGAN.
Sunday Ball Playing Stopped in
North Hudson--The StocktOns
Defeat the Lodis--0ther Games
and Sporting News.

Bill Hook, the plucky British pugillst,
who was knocked out several weeks ago
by James +. Larkins, the champion LIZ
pound light weight of this city, will be
rendered a benefit this evening in the
quarters of the Scottish-Amcrican Ath-
letic Club, ut No. 435 Grove street.
The affair will be an athletic exhibition
and will be given under the direction OF
several prominent members of the >. A.
A. c., including Henry S. Tuthill, Prof.
Hart, Chappie Moran, James Robbins,
Cal Mccarthy and Jimmy Larkins.
The programme will include perform
ances OF the parallel bars by John Chap
man and Max Dempwolf, of the Paterson
Athletic Club; an exhibition on the flying
rings by Robert Stoll, of the Staten Is
land Athletic Club, for five years the
champion in that inc of sport; wrestling
bouts between AL. Camacho, the ex-cham-
pion feather weight wrestler of America,
and William Kenney, of the New Jersey
Athletic Club, and set-tos between Cal.
Mccarthy, Pat. Cahill, Peter Sherry, Ed.
Cahill, r. Looney, NJ. Bolan, Bill Dunn,
E. Closterman, John Grave, Bob Jackson,
Chappie Moran, Charlie Norton, Frank
Kenny and j. Rotheman.
Charlie Norton's trained bull terrier
will perform some wonderful feats upon
the trapeze; Thomas j. O,Day and W.
Skillman will wrestle; G.. Harris, of the
Staten Island Athletic Club, will display
his skill at club swinging, and Jimmy
Larkins and the beneficiary will conclude
the entertainment with a six-round fistic
set to. Altogether, the event will be a
great exhibition of sport.
The stocktons worsted the Lodis.
The Stocktons, of Hoboken, and the
Lodis, of Lodi, Bergen county, put up a
good game of ball yesterday afternoon in
that village, the Stocktons winning in the
eighth inning.
One of the features of the game was a
catch by Reilly of the Lodis. Corbl1ss
hit the ball hard and Reilly made an ad-
mirable jump, catching the ball with one
hand. ~Steinbruck, the StocktonS' crack
pitcher, was not on hand when the train
left the Erie depot, and Corbliss had to do
the twirling. He succeeded in keeping
the home teams hits well scattered
Dooley played great ball at first base, and
Checque did some tail hitting for the
Stocktons. Cotter, the Stocktons' new
man from Boston, put up d great game.
The Lodi team played good ball for a lot
of country boys, and they did some phe-
nominal work, surprising the Stocktons.
eighth inning, when the ~Stocktons did
some terrific batting and went to the front
with q rush. The score:-
Lodis. ......,...0 0 / III 0 0~0 o. 3
Stocktons. ...,...2 0 0 0 0 0 / z 40
Home run-Moylan.
Three base hits-Checque, 2.
Two base hits-Dooley, Corbfss, Lane, Reilly
and Tucker.
Errors-Lodis, 9; Stocktons, 5.
Batteries-Lodis, Brennan and Oman; Stock
tons, Corbliss and Moylan.
Umpire Joseph Scott,
Yesterdays Championship Games.
ATLANTIC AssocIATIoN.-No games scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.-No games scheduled.
AMERICAN AssocIATIoN.-At Ridgewood-Cin-
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