The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-02

season. ItiOwes nothing. The Association
will not meet again until next spring.
Steps have been taken TO start O base
ball club In this city. A score OF prom
inent and wealthy men have been APP
pealed to. 1t has been decided by the
projectors that The free pass system is a
failure and it will not be tried again.
The managers were too liberal during
the past season and many who
would have paid and attended the games
regularly had passes, and the club lost in
consequence numerous dollars.
The baseball tenn of the New Jersey
Athletic Club and the West Ends, of
Somerville, will play on the Avenue A
grounds at Bergen Point this after
noon.
Jersey City's Athletic Clubs.
The Scottish-American Athletic Club
will hold a regular meeting IN Friday
night.
The competition for los pound men at
the rooms of the Scots October Is will be
an interesting exhibition.
The Kensington Athletic Club will have
a field meeting at the West Side track on
election day. The Puritan Club has been
invited to participate in the games.
James Mahmey, president OF the Star
Athletic Club, has resigned and become q
member of the Gable Athletic Club.
There is a great rivalry between the
Star and Cable Athletic Clubs. They are
both located at the north end of the
Second Aldermanic district,
The Star Athletic Club has forty-one
members. Their rooms are at the corner
of Grove and Thirteenth streets.
The Gable Athletic Club is fitting up its
rooms in Jersey avenue.
The Wayne Athletic Club will have
field games.
The Scots are still hunting for a suitable
Ground r. xunnld not no a had i6pQ for
the several down town athletic clubs to
unite in securing a ground.
Yachting Notes,
Ex-Commodore H. C. Roome has re-
turned after a long cruise in his yacht
Concord. He has spent the summer on
his boat.
The Wabasso, OF the Jersey City Club,
has returned from a bluefishing excur-
sion. The fishers had great luck.
The Phantom, of the Pavonia Club,
sailed down the bay last night on a blue
fishing cruise.
The Avalon is on a weeks cruise around
the fishing grounds.
The boats that sailed Saturday night
did not bring back many fish.
The Bicycle Riders.
The Hudson County Wheelmen will be
well represented On Hf11dy db 0prIAS
Valley and will astonish the Rockland
county farmers at the County Fair.
The next run for the Benedict medal
WILDE on Election Day.
The chairman of the League of Ameri-
can Wheelmen desires to nav the
League championships reduced to three
and to have them run at the annua meet
ing of the League. =
The Hudson County Wheelmen will
nave d run to Pompton on Sunday.
The schedule for the Wheelmen's
Bowling League will be fixed at the next
meeting.
The Pennant Fight.
The defeat of the Giants at Pittsburg
and the victory of Boston at Chicago put
the Bostons in first place. The games
yesterday made three changes in the
National League. Boston passed New
York, Philadelphia stepped ahead of Chi
cage and Cleveland went into sixth place.
A despatch received this morning says
the game forfeited to Cleveland by Wash
lngton does not count in the records, as
the clubs will play the disputed game on
Saturday. The records follow
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