The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-31
SPORTING GOSSIP.

Miscellaneous Items Anent the Doings
of Our Sporting Men and Clubs.
Labor Day will be passed by many en-
thusiastic marksmen in sweepstake and
practice shooting before the traps of the
New York Suburban Shooting Associa-
ton at Claremont.
Andy Hart, a well known amateur run
ner of Hudson county, intends entering
this fall and winter. He will join the
Scottish-American Athletic Club within
a few days.
The rail and reedbird season opens on
Labor Day, and there is every prospect
that the birds will be plentiful. The seed
bearing plants on the Hackensack
meadows were never more luxuriant than
now.
Still fishing for black bass improves
every week and two months of good fish
ing may be confidently expected.
Captain Jacobs, of the Payonia Yacht
Club, is en- route south for a cruise in the
yacht Victor in the waters of the Caro-
linas, Florida and Georgia. He will also
take a sail up the st. Johns River. His
DR.. +. Eyeland, of the Hudson County
Wheelmen, returned several days ago
from a cycling tour through Connecticut.
During the trip he rode in the neighbour
hood of two hundred miles over the Nut
meg States pleasant sandy roads.
Il. Shearman, Jr., of the New jersey
Athletic Club, will contest the one mile
walk at the regular Championship meet
ing of the Amateur Athletic Union.
Weak fishing is not as good as 1t was @
month ago, but good catches are still
being made at Sewaren, Perth Amboy
and Princes Bay. Reports from Long
Island resorts are diScouraging.
U,Ao 1,oct of cnOrt 10 nroroicad IN hrDn+o-e,
on the strip under the jurisdiction of the
West Jersey Game Protective Society.
Thousands of quail, p~artridges and rab-
bits are found in the woods, and they are
in capital condition. The range is a wide
one and includes Camden, Gloucester,
Cumberland, Atlantic, Cape May and
Salem counties. The open season for
quail and rufied grouse will begin on No
venlber l. European grouse, pheasants
and cartridges are protected until 1892
under a penalty of S25, and English hares
until 1891.
The Palisades, of West Hoboken, will
arrange a game with their opponents, the
Weehawkens, for next week.
The billiard match between AL Grobie
and Tom Hendricks, of Union Hill, seems
to have met with a hitch. If Grobie wants
the championship of Hudson county he
will have to play for it. So says Hend-
ricks.
The Reserves II Regulars, of the
Friendship Club, will play at Friendship
Park, West Hoboken this afternoon. All
phonse expects fortune to shine ON him
again.
There has been some talk of a four
Dared barge race taking place in the near
future between the Actiyes and the
Atlantics, of Hoboken, and the
Atalantas, of Harlem. Captain Van
RAIDER, of the Atalantas, says he is will
ing TO row the Actives and Atlantics q
race of one mile and a half, either
separately or together for 500 worth of
prizes, ia consist of medals and banners.
William Neumann, running broad
Jumper. of the New Jersey Athletic Club,
fell while riding a bicycle last Wednesday.
badly spraining his knees and also cut
ting his chin, which he says will put him
out of active participation in athletics for
the remainder of the season.. He cleared
at the Eastern championship meeting,
this spring, 81 feet 50 inches at the run.
ming broad jump.
Kreymeyer, and Three Brothers, owned
by C. Steurer, are to be sailed tomorrow
in q race for a purse of $3.50. The course
will be on New York Bay, with the start
from off a ystakeboat, near the Payonia
Yacht Clubs quarters. The amateur
yachtsmen belonging to the several yacht
clubs at CommunipaW have quite a sum
of money on the result, and u number of
spectators will witness the start and
finish