The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-21
SPORTING MEN ANDSPORT.
AMMO JUDGEMENTS OF FoUR BIG
ATHLETIC MEETINGS.

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Pugilistic Cross Counters-The Kef1eher-
E1iingsworth Fight Championship
Baseball G-ames-sporting Club Cos
sip.
he second annual fall carnival of out
door sport of the New Jersey Athletic
Club, will be given on the organizations
grounds on the Bergen Point shore OF
Newark Bay, on Saturday afternoons
August 81. The programme includes h
following events, all of which. Save the
last, are NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. yards
dash, 300 yards canter, $50 yards run, one
and one-half mile race, go yards hurdle
race, one mile walk, running high jump
and a $50 yards three-legged race from
scratch on turf. Owing to the
fact that the Scottish-Ameri-
can Athletic Clubs annual fall
games will be held the same afternoon,
the games will begin Immediately ut two
o'clock. Entries close positively on Mon
day. August 26, with Secretary A, M.
Sweet, Box 1852, Bayonne. The men fin
ishing first, secondhand third in each event,
will receive handsome prizes OF JeWelry,
and a beautiful silk banner will be
awarded the clubs whose entries score
the greatest number of points.
In C~aledonian Park, on the Heights, the
annual fall meeting of the Scottish Amer
lean Athletic Club will be held on Satur-
day afternoon, August 81. The events to
be programmed embrace a 100 yards dash,
a 440 canter. a $50 yards run, q running
high jump. a one mile walk and 9 one and
one-half mile run. All are handicap
events, governed by the rules of the Anna
teur Athletic Union. The prizes are unusu-
ally fine and are the handiwork Of Robert
Stoll. w. H. Robertson will officiate as
starter, and A. +. COPELAND, Al. b. George,
w. 7. Young and T.. p. Connect will be
among the contestants. MANY other
prominent athletes who will compete
earlier in the afternoon at the New Jersey
Athletic Clubs games will also particf-
pate. The entries will close with Sec
rotary T. A. Donnelly, No. ABS Grove
street, this city, on Saturday, August "a.
The Scots are making every effort to have
their games equal, If not excel those OF
the Bergen Point organization.
TIL Staten Island Athletic Club will
run off on Labor Day, Monday. Septenl-
Der Q, its twelfth annual fall games. on
the beautiful club grounds at West New
Brighton, Staten Island. The events are
all handicap and open to all amateurs,
the code of the Amateur Athletic Union
governing. The winners of the several
events will receiye gold medals, and
those who finish second will be
awarded silver medals. Entries close IN
Saturday, August 20, with Frederick
William Jansen, box IS, West Brighton,
S. L., N. Y. The following events have
been programmed,-125 yards dash On
turf, 220 yards canter, 40 yards run, $50
yards run, two mile rum, one mile walk,
two mile bicycle race, running broad
jump and running high jump.
For Saturday, August 81, the Passaic
City Wheeling and Athletic Association
has announced q carnival of outdoor
sport, with a large list of events. The
meeting is to be held on the Clifton race
track, q three-quarter mile circuit, pos
sessing an excellent surface for racing
and sprinting. The games comprise the
first open event given by the organiza-
spared to make them success
full. Entries close today with
Charles BLIZZARD, No, 31S Gregory avenue,
Passaic, N. j. The programme is as fol-
lows:-One hundred yards dash, quarter
mile, and one mile runs, 800 yards hurdle
race, one mile walk, running high and
broad jumps, pole Vault, putting sixteen
pound shot, all handicap. tug OF war; 4
mile bicycle race, one mile safety bicycle
race, one and a half mile bicycle race for
club members, and three quarter mile
bicycle race, all handicap; two mile bi-
cycle team race and one mile novice
race. Gold and silver medals
will be respectively given to the
first and second men in a event. ex-
cept the club race. Gold medals will be
given to each member of the winning
Team in the tng-of-war contest. The club
race is for a challenge trophy, which must
be won three times to be the property of
the winner. In the team race each mem
Der of the winning team will receive a
gold medal, and the club represented by
It will receive o silver cup.