The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-17
GOSSIP OF THE l B

son County's Sporting Fraternity.
Entries for the Tomlin's regatta, to be
held on the Hudson, off Gutenberg, on
Saturday, August go, will close on Satur
day, August II, with P. F. Tomlin, Gut
tenberg. The course for each will be for
two miles, with a turn. Gold medals
will bethe prizes for the winning crews.
w. ii. Noyes, of the Red Jacket Canoe
Club. of Philadelphia, in his canoe, the
Cigarette, has been ~rendezvousing at the
club houses of the New jersey Athletic
Club on the Bergen Point shore of New
ark Bay.
The annual regatta of the Communipaw
swimming Club will be held on Saturday,
July ~, OH the ub's quarters on the
Communlpaw shore of New York Bay.
President Christopher Holderman has ar
ranged q fine programme of sport. The
event Will include q race open to all cat
boats seventeen feet and under. Presi-
dent Holderman is training for the one
hundred yards swimming race O man
named Charles August, who, like himself,
has only one leg.
Robert II. PEBBLES, commodore of the
Bayonne Canoe Club, is q member of the
Camp Committee for the annual meet
n encampment of the Atlantic Division
of the American Canoe Association, now
being held on the banks of historic
SACOoOHunhC SISSh, u6dI SOuJu AuIDOy.
Counsellor Henry W. Winfield, of
G%reenville, son Of District Attorney
Charles H. Winfield, knows a good gun
when he sees one. Being an excellent
pedestrian he spends much of his
leisure time trudging through
the WOOD woods of Warren Sussex
Dutchess, Rockland and Ulster counties,
New York, stopping every now and then
to try his trusty fowling piece on some
sort of game.
Several t~rotting races will be held this
afternoon owe the track in the West Side
Driving Park, this city. Manager Reach
is making his place quite a rendezvous for
Hudson county horsemen.
Next year several of the Hoboken boat
clubs will probably locate their quarters
on the Passaic River, which is apparently
destined to become within a few years the
great centre of oarsmen in America.
At q recent meeting of the Newark Bay
Boat Club, of Bayonne, $500 worth of the
bonds issued to build a winter club house
for the organization were redeemed. The
n remaining outstanding aggregate q
valuation of SO, 800.
For the purpose of acting upon an in
vitation from the Pennsylvania Wheel
men to visit that organization in Phila-
delphia on Friday and Saturday, August
2 and 3, a special meeting will be held
Thursday evening by the Hudson County
Wheelmen ut their quarters on Com
munipaw avenue.
In response to a challenge to fight Billy
Murphy for a purse of 81, 500, Jimmy Lar
kins, the champion lightweight pugilist
of this city, will go to California in Sep
TENDER. Chappie Moran will accompany
him, having received an invitation from
the California Athletic Club to take part
in their boxing contests.
The Amacitias are looming up as the
boss team of amateur ball tossers from
this city. They play al Amacitia, and are
brook, pitcher; Mckee, left field;
Casey, second base; Corbliss, short
stop; Dooley, first base; Checque,
catcher; Myers (of the Chicagos of 81,
right field; Smith, centre field; Tooker,
extra. They will be pleased to meet any
uniformed nine with enclosed grounds.
Address George Sthorer, manager, Nos.
81 and Sc First street, this city.
There are prospects of a 100-yards dash
taking place between F. J. Mccoy, who
holds the record in Hudson county, and
William Clegg, of Paterson street. at tn
| coming games of the Surface Railway
Employees next Saturday afternoon in
siderable talking recently about snatch
ing the record from Mccoy. 1t is rumored
he will have a chance Saturday to try it
for either money or q gold medal.
The eleven of the New Jersey Athletic
| Club will meet an eleven from the New
York Cricket Club tomorrow afternoon at
Central Park in q cricket match of the
| amateur championship series,
Pat Cahill's dog Nelly and Prof. Harris
dog Bruno are being put through q
course of training for the coming races
with Jack McMaster's well known dog
Niger.
Weakfish continue to run strong off the
Staten Island and Long Island shores and
the New Jersey coast. They can be best
caught with shrimp bait on the first of the
| food and the last of the ebb tides.