The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-12
EXCITING RACES AT GUTENBERG.
Three Events Won by a Nose in a Driv
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Three Events Won by a Nose in a priv
ing Finish.
The racing at Gutenberg yesterday
was intensely exciting. Equality won
the first race by a head. A foot rule
would nave covered the noses of the three
leaders at the wire in the second race,
Gardner did the trick by a nose in third
race. The other three vents were well
contested. The winners, their ages,
weight carried and jockeys were:-
First race, for u purse OF $500, three
quarters of a mile-Equality, 4 years, 100
lbs. (Miller), l; Marty B, 4 years, 108 (Ber-
gem, 2; Little Bill. 8 years. 100 (TaraD, 3.
Time, LII. Mutuals paid Sl2.45, So. 15,
s5.65, Lord Fauntleroy, Japhet, Minnie
j., Dave S., Carlow, Facial B., Kemple
FLY, Ruse, Bloss, Little Mickey aud Gold
Vase flly also ran
Second race, purse $500, for maiden two
year-olds, half a miie-Jula g., los ct.
Tribe, l; Matagorda filly, 107 (Jones), q;
Upman, 40 (TaraD. 8. Time, 50 sec
onds. Mutuals paid SIS IS, S5.s5, 1926.
Little Fred Leonavid, Laura S., Mary
Roberts. Chatter, Refraction flly and
Count Me In, also al
Third race, purse $500, selling, one mile
Gardner, 4, 102 (MarshalD, /; Jennie
Mcfarland, aged, 10 lo H. lBerygen,);, 2;
1.ft4. MulAdlS pau GlU.C on, o. 10, OF. ~.
Red Light, Clay Stockton, Mcdowell,
Ethus, Sam D., Mile r., Little Moore,
Lakewood and John J.. S.. also ran.
Fourth race; purse S400; selling, three
quarters OF a mile-Souvenir. aged, 103,
81. Tribe) /; Count Luna, 6, 10Y (Bergen),
2; Parolina, 2, 70 Qamhly), 3. Romance.
America, Top Sawyer. Cupid, Geronimo.
Planerold gelding and Monte Cristo also
ran. Time, LII. Mutuals paid SIG. IS,
$7.05, 81.
Fifth race, purse 5000. three-quarters of
a mile-Rancocas. 3. 100 (Bergen), /; Bus
teed, 8, 104 (Jones), 2; Australia, 8. 1857
(StovaD, 3. Lotion, Go Lucky. and Guar
antee also ran. Time, Ills ~. Mutuals
paid S5.25, $3.50, So. IS.
Sixth race, purse $500, selling, seven
furlongs-Blackthorn, 9, 100 {StovaD, 1;
Lonely, 4, 113 (TaraD, 2; Royal Garter, 5,
121 (Stevenson), 8. J. j. 0. b., Slumber,
Lancaster, Big Brown Jug, Jim Gates,
Elgin and Sir Roderick also ran. Time,
l:3O 10. Mutnals paid S20.25, $l1.40 and
S465.
Notes.
Cal Mccarthy will spar at the benefit to
x-Handicapper Walter G.. Hegeman at
the Criterion Theatre, Brooklyn, on
July "a.
The Hudson County Wheelmen will
have a run to Morristown tomorrow, and
Will C6COAU t1C IA1lltbIah LA OAQu.
The first annual regatta of the Middle
States Regatta Association will take place
on August 6 and Z over the Passaic river
course at Newark. The event promises
to be n of the best of its kind ever given
in these waters. The regatta is open to
the world. Entries close July 80 with II.
r. Fortmeyer, No. 40 Wall street.
Albert Lervey, captain and manager of
the Blizzard Baseball Club, has secured
the services of Netaige.
The managers of the National League
clubs have followed the plan of theatre
cal managers to pack houses. They are
issuing paper.
Instead of meeting the team of the
Perth Amboy Athletic Association on the
Avenue b, Bayonne, grounds this after
noon, the team of the Bayonne Rowing
and Athletic Association will GO TO New
ark and the nine of the Iro-
quois Athletic Club at Newark in a cham
pionship game of the New Jersey Athletic
Baseball League series.
The Newark Baseball Club intends
fighting the Sabbatarians who have inter
fered with the SUNDAY games.