The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-07
Whisners of the Wheel.

HhASPCho vi thO
Todate William E. Eldridge. of the Hud-
son County Wheelmen, has covered this
year, 1921 miles upon his steed of steel.
Billy Ulrich, of the Hudson County
Wheelmen, took a run on Monday that
made the total number of miles travelled
by him on his wheel this year exceed
1900.
The Hudson County Wheelmen have
arranged for the following runs this
month;-Thursday, August 8, leave
quarters at half-past seven in the evening
for a moonlight run to South Orange;
Saturday, August 10. start at four o'clock
in the afternoon, via. the Pennsylvania
Railroad, for Philadelphia, to visit the
Pennsylvania Bicycle Club; Sunday,
August rs, leave quarters at eight o'clock
in the morning for South Beach, Staten
Island, via. Bayonne; Saturday, August
81, start from headquarters at three
O'Clock in the afternoon for a run to the
first annual watermelon feast of the road
officers; the destination to be made known
at the start.
The following notice in regard to the
Hudson County Wheelmen's visit to the
Pennsylvania Bicycle Club, of Philadel-
phia, on Saturday and Sunday next. has
been issued by Captain Edward j. Day
"AH members who intend going to Phila-
delphia on the 10th must notify me at
once SO that special rates can be secured;
If thirty-five or over, a special car can be
had without extra charge. All members
are requested to carry bells, also to have
streamers of red and white ribbon, ten
inches long by one land a quarter wide,
fastened to left handle bar. Train will
leave Pennsylvania Railroad depot at four
p. M"
The Pennsylvania Bicycle Club will
turn out strong to entertain the Hudson
County Wheelmen on their visit to them
on Saturday and Sunday next. They will
be taken to all points of interest in the
park and the famous Lancaster pike.
They will have supper at the Belmont
Mansion on Saturday, and will ride to
Devon Inn on Sunday, where they will
dine. They return on the evening train
to Jersey City.
Messrs. William e. Eldridge and Robert
McAra, of the Hudson County Wheelmen,
haye returned home from a tour party
upon their wheels, partly by boat and
partly by rail. through Rhode Island,
Massachusetts, and Maine.
Miscellaneous Sporting Notes.
Messrs. Mead and Edwards, of the
Lafayette Lawn Tennis Club, will contest
a match ON the clubs courts on Pacific
avenue this evening.
Among the promising young boxers in
the Jersey City Turn Verein are J. Sci
now, George Ryan, w. Hagenburck and
G. Thompson.
William Kenny, the amateur feather
weight fighter, is the only pugilist in the
New Jersey Athletic Club. He was for
merly q member of the defunct Olympic
Athletic Club, of New York City.
Charlie Ward is developing considerable
| reputation as an oarsman.
The Lorillard Debating and Athletic
Association, of this city, has entered
Thomas Bergen and Samuel Hartley in
the National Amateur Athletic Associa-
ton of Americas swimming champion
ships. The former will compete in the
~l00-yards, while the latter will contest in
the one-mile.
The handsome medals for the fall
games of the Scottish-American Athletic
| Club are now on exhibition in the win
dows of A. G. Spalding's sporting EN-
porium in New York city.