The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-08
GOSSIP OLE THE CLUBS.
Sayings and Doings of Hudson County's
Sporting Fraternity.

| Savings and Doinps of Hudson County's
Sporting Fraternity.
A regular meeting of the Scottish
American Athletic Club will be held THIS
evening at the clubs headquarters, NO
435 Grove street. All the members are
requested to be present as business OF I'M
portance is to be transacted and final ar
| rangements are to be made for the picnic
and games, which are to take place IN
| CALIFORNIAN Park, on August 81.
In reply to Thomas O'Rourke,s letter,
| Jimmy Larkins says that he will not go
to Boston to fight "Happy" Homer for SO
small a purse as the Bay State Athletic
Club is willing to subscribe. he agrees
| to fight Homer for $500 a side and an ex-
ira purse of $500, the match to take place
within four weeks after the articles are
signed.
The fight to a finish between George
Morash, of the Scottish-American Ath-
letic Club, and Bryan King, of this city,
for 500 a side, will take place in several
days at a well known sporting resort IN
this city. Morash is training under the
tuition of Ed. Closterman and Pat Cah1li,
and King is looked after by Thomas Kill
len, a well known boxer of New YORK
city.
About twenty members of the Scottish
American Athletic Club will leave their
rooms this evening for Bath Beach, Long
Island, where they will camp out for the
next ten days. They will pass their out
ing in rowing, fishing and shooting.
Teddy Hartman, better known as Pete
Mccoy, the well-known pugilist OF this
city, has made a six months contract with
the Los Angeles Athletic Club, of Cali
fornia, to act as its boxing instructor.
Cal. Mccarthy, the champion feather
weight of America, expresses his willing
ness to meet Tommy Warren before the
California Athletic Club in the organiza
ton will give a purse of 1000, of which
amount 81 800 is to go to the winner, ana
the remainder to the loser. AS soon as
the club agrees to his proposition Cal.
will sign the articles.
Dix Won the C~ross-Country Run.
The Jersey City Young Mems Christian
Association held their first monthly cross
country run last evening from their rooms.
corner of Newark avenue and Grove
street, Jersey City. The run was to
Greenville and return. The following
men started:-D. Walls, W. Cochran, +.
Dubois, G; Ridder, c. yandevoort. B. r.
course until 800 yards from home, when
Dixon spurted and beat him by about
fifty yards. The other men reached the
rooms at intervals of every five or ten
minutes, the last being forty minutes be-
hind the leader.
New Sporting Clubs.
An announcement has been posted
stating that at Turner Hall, on First
street, a new athletic club will be organ
lied this evening.
A party of we'll known young men liv-
ing in the upper end of the city have
organized an athletic club which will be
known as the Wayne Walking and Out
ing Club. The following officers were
elected at their last regular meeting:-
William Maxwell, captain; Michael
Hennessy, treasurer, and Bernard Nc
Gindness, secretary. The club will give
it's first pedestrian excursion on Sunday,
August 10, starting from the headquarters
on Wayne street for Coney Island by way
of the Brooklyn Boulevard. The return
walk will be over the same route.