The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-03
GREAT DAY FOR SPORT.
All Kinds of Outdoor Games
to Be Held in This
County Tomorrow.
JERSEY CITY TO MEET NEWARK TWICE,
A Carnival at Bergen Point---The
Scots, Turner's, Caledonians.
7. NJ. c. A, and Various Baseball
Games.

Hudson county lovers of outdoor sport
will find scheduled to occur tomorrow in
the county and it's immediate vicinity a
diversity Of sporting events well caicu-
lated to attract their attention and at
tendance, and rouse their enthusiasm.
Foremost in importance and first to be
mentioned are the two great champion
ship battles with bat and ball to be
waged by the rival Jersey City and New
ark clubs ofthe Atlantic Association.
Both clubs will be out for the dust and
consequently can be expected to put up
good games. In the morning they will
meet at Newark and in the afternoon
they will occupy the diamond at Oakland
Park, this city. In view of Mondays
great game they should draw an immense
crowd to each encounter.
In addition to these games, and the var
1ouS athletic games, outings, etc, treated
of in other sections of this department,
the following baseball games are slated
on Independence Days calendar
tn team of the New Jersey Athletic
Club will meet Haekett, Carhart and
Company's nine. the redoubtable Com
mefcials, on the Avenue A grounds at
Bergen Point in the afternoon.
The teams of st. Joseph's Lyceum, of
the Heights, and st. Peters Lyceum, of
blllS City, VIII 11dNC u ICDltIA GAulG Ala LUZ
morning. Oakland Park has been ex-
gagged for the encounter.
TIL second of the series of games for the
local championship between the teams OF
the Pamrapo Athletic Club and the Bay
onne Rowing and Athletic Association
will take place in the morning, on the
Avenue b, Bayonne, grounds,
On the same grounds the nine of the
Bayonne Rowing and Athletic Association
will meet the semi professional Acmes, of
New York city, in the afternoon.
The Woodwards, of this city, will do
battle in the afternoon at Greenyille with
the team of the Painrapo Athletic Club.
The Atlantics, of this city, will cross
bats In the afternoon with the Washing
tons. of Elizabeth, on the formers
grounds.
Teams frcha Lincoln and Hoboken
Lodges, ha;Fh', of Pythias, will play in
the moi hing at Hoboken.
The team of the West Bergen Athletic
Club will play the Railways in the morn
ing and the Crescents in the afternoon at
West Bergen.
The Young Maroons and the Maroons
will play for SlO q side in the morning on
the Heights.
Mines from Court Hamilton and Paulus
Hook, Ancient Order OF Foresters, will
meet on the Heights in the afternoon.
At West Bergen the Jersey City Acmes
will do battle with the Monticellos in the
afternoon.
A Sporting Carnival at Bergen Point.
An all-day carnival of outdoor sport
will be given tomorrow by the New Jer-
sey Athletic Club on the clubs grounds
at Bergen Point. The days sport will
open with a lacrosse match at noon be.
tween the lacrosse teams of the organize
ton and the Staten Island Athletic Club
The clubs annual rowing regatta will
follow, there being several events.
At half-past two In the afternoon the
track and field sports will occur. The
programme includes the following handi-
cap events, open to all amateurs and gov
erned by the Amateur Athletic Union
rules:-100 yards dash, ~300-yards canter,
SS0-yards run, one-mile walk, 45-seconds
handicap limit; one-mile run, 60-seconds
inches handicap limit; running broad
Jump, two feet three inches handicap
limit; twelve pound shot pntting contest,
limited to los pound men.
A one mile bicycle race, from
scratch. open to club members only,
foe ,ile club medal now held by ",
III. Caldwell, will also take place, The
first, second and third men in each track
and field event will receive beautiful jew
elry prizes. In the evening the club will
give a promenade concert and a magnii-
cent exhibition of fireworks.
Trap slso ,tlag Tomorrow at Claremont.
An attractive programme will be given
tomorrow on the grounds of the New
York Suburban Shooting Association at
Claremont. The shooting will be at blue
rock clay pigeon and Keystone targets
under the Keystone system, Major j. M.
Taylor will manage the days sport.
American Shooting Association rules and
classification will govern.
Jersey Cricketers in Connecticut.
The eleven of the New Jersey Athletic
Club will go to Bridgeport tomorrow to
meet the eleven of the Bridgeport Cricket
Club In a match of the amateur cham
pionship series.
polphins Going Up the Shrewsbury.
The Dolphin Fishing and Boating Club,
of the Heights. will start tomorrow morn
ing upon its annual sailing, fishing and
camping outing along the Shrewsbury
river. Two dozen members OF the organ
ization will take part in the jollitication,
under the command OF Com
modore Euguene Brannstein. Some
will sail aboard the sloop
yacht Dolphin, commanded by Captain b.
Rummler. Others will be aboard the
yacht Rambler. commanded by Captain
f. Ehibeck. Charles Pitzecker will be
sailing master and Charles Somers
steward. The Dolphin will fly for the first
time the clubs new ensign.
GFcenyilIe Turner's to Celebrate.
The sixteenth annual picnic and ath-
etic games of the Greepyille Turn Verein
will be held tomorrow in the Greenyille
Schuetzen Park. The days programme
embraces many novel features, as fol-
lows:-Marching and calisthenic exercises
by the pupils, high and broad jumping
contests, foot races, horizontal and paral-
lei bar contests, q turning exhibition by
visiting Turner'S from the New Jersey
Turn BeZirk, club swinging contests,
rifle shooting and dancing, Prizes will
be given the winners of the several events.
The Turner's will leave their quarters, at
the corner of Danforth avenue and the
Old Bergen road, at two O'Clock In the
afternoon, and after marching through
the principal streets of the section will
proceed to the park,
An Dating by Cyclists at Long Branch.
The Hudson CountyWheelmen will cele
brate the GLORIOUS Fourth with a road
run to Long Branch. The start viii be
made at five O'Clock tomorrow morning
from the club ooms on Communipaw
avenue. The wheel win be used as far as
Perth Amboy, where a train will be
boarded for Mattawan, at which village