The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-23

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Driving Park, has arranged to have
several trotting races take place on his
track tomorrow afternoon.
Cal Mccarthy, the 114-pound champion
of the world, says that If Johnny Murphy,
| the Boston bantam, Jake Kilrain's bottle
holder, wants to fight him again he will
fight for a purse of only 81 500. This is
quite a come down from the figure de-
manded just after the fight between them
in April, when Murphy broke his arm.
Then Mccarthy did not want to fight
again for less than 81 500. Mccarthy is
anxious for another go with Murphy, and
there will be no difficulty in getting the
purse. He will be ready to fight in Octo-
Der.
These officers have been chosen by the
Lafayette Lawn Tennis Club:-President,
Richard Hitler; vice president, George
urer, Edward Booth; board of managers,
Frederick Benson. James CLARK, John
Watson, Charles Mead and J.sWallis Ed
wards.
Sunday afternoon the members of the
Hudson County Wheelmen diversified
themselves all about the country in this
vicinity. A half-dozen of them took a
dash through Bayonne and along the
Staten Island shore. Others made a run
through Brooklyn to Coney Island.
Another group of riders had their steeds
of steel carry them to Paterson, and still
another handful took a spin through the
Oranges.
The Jersey City Young Mems Christian
Association now has two baseball teams
in the field. Messrs Wallace, Dumont, Mar
tens AFFORD, Dixon, Appman and Hoffman
comprise the first team. The recently or
ganfzed second nine embraces
I E cboo Walls Ed; ro,,a Abbptt' william
! ran, w. j. Cochrane, A. Duhmes, Mar
tine and Kelly.
The New Jersey Athletic Club members
have decided to lengthen their 100 yards
straight to 120 yards. They may have to
change the entrance to the grounds a
little and perhaps fill in more at the start
of the race, SO as to gain u few extra yards
there. AS the track is at present the 100
yards hurdle race has to be run either on
the turf IN the infield or else having the
start of 1t commence on a turn.
An invitation to send entries to the
games of the st. George Athletic Club, to
be held at Yonkers on Saturday, August
American Athletic Club of this city.
The annual regatta of the Jersey City
Yacht Club will be sailed on Saturday,
August 10, over the clubs course on New
York Bay. The event is open to the craft
belonging to the following clubs, mem
ing Association Columbia Harlem,
ark aIuS0n Bay, 'ef New NeJ jersey, Sing Sing
Sing, Pavonia. Staten Island, Tappan Zee,
Williamsburgh, Yonkers, Corinthian, and
Ceder Point Yacht Clubs. No entrance
fee will be charged. Suitable prizes will
be awarded the winning craft where two
or more boats compete. The Jersey City
Club expect the largest number of entries
ever received by a New Jersey club, and
the bay will be alive with white wings on
August 10.
The establishment of a gymnasium in
their headquarters at No. "a Montgomery
street, this city, is contemplated by the
members of st. Peters Lyceum.
An athletic exhibition for the benefit of
plucky Bill Hook, the light weight Eng
fish pugilist who was knocked out by Jer-
sey City's champion, Jimmy Larkins, will
be held Saturday evening, July ~, at the
quarters of the Scottish-American Ath-
letic Club, No. ABS Grove street. The pro-
gramme for the event is now being ar
ranged. ~ t4 49,
AT the games of the New Jersey Ath-
letic Club at Bergen Point Saturday, the
three placed men in the running broad
Jump cleared over twenty-one feet. and as
they averaged two feet start each, E. Il.
Barnes, N. ). A. C., the scratch man, had
rather a poor show, for although he has a
record, of % feet 81 inches, still he would
have had to do better thar % feet 81
inches to win. G. Wrede, S. /. A. c., with
2 feet 3 inches allowances, cleared the
actual distance of 81 feet 3s4 inches.
William Kenny, of the New Jersey Ath-
letic Club, will begin training for cross
country running shortly. Kenny won
the Fitzpatrick trophy in 1856, and was one
of the winning team in all the champion
ship seros-country run of 1857 and 1888.
Kenny startes that while running for
honors this fall he will also be getting
into trim for his proposed fight with
Recap, the Philadelphia feather-weight.
He said thatsthe fight would have taken
place last spring. but the Recap party
were afraid that their maj was not in the
best trim, and kept putting the battle off
until the weather finally got too warm.
Plans for the new clubhouse the New
Jersey Athletic Club contemplate build
ing before next spring are now being ex-
amined. The site will be on the south
west corner of their spacious grounds,
which will put itlon the bay shore. The
building will have a large gymnasium,
which will be arranged so that it will
answer all purposes of a theatre when the
occasion requires. The structure will be
two full stories, with q divided one on
top. All the necessities of an athletic
clubhouse will be embodied. The club
has been an unusual success and al
though it is only about two years old it is
considered one of the prominent features
of Bergen Point ~