The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-08
VIII Again ChalIenge Dixon.

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VIII Again Challenge Dixon.
Cal Mccarthy, of this city, the cham
pioD feather weight, will have anoth er go
at George Dixon, who recently defeated
Nunc Wallace, the English champion.
Dixon and Tom O'Rourke, his hacker and
manager, are passengers on the steamer
ftruria. which is due tomorrow. He will
be Immediately challenged on his ar
rival. by Cal, to fight with skin
gloves for any part of $1,000 a
side and the championship of the world.
Cal is confident that the next time they
meet that It will not be a draw. James
Colvjlle, of Boston. Is McCarthy's hacker,
and is positive that Cal is a better man
than the clever darkey. II is his firm
opinion that had not the concession in the
way of gloves been made by Cal to Dixon
that the latter would have been whipped.
The Dauntless Y. C.'s Regatta.
The event on Sunday next will be the
open regatta of the Dauntless Yacht
Club. 1t is estimated that thirty boats
will participate in the races. which will
be sailed over a triangular course. The
club IA made preparations TO insure
success and q jolly time. The Dauntless
Club is destined to be prominent as it
is made up of active young
men who are enthusiastic yachtsmen.
There will be two classes on the card.
Glass is for jib and mainsail boats from
sixteen to t~wenty-four feet long. Class 2
IS for cat boats not over sixteen feet long.
No entrance fee is charged, and the en-
tries will not close until one O'Clock Sun
day afternoon. The races will be started
ar hour later.
Whirl of the Wheels.
Kluge will make al effort mex week
IN the Milburn course to still lower the
twenty-five mile record. He hopes to
bring it down to an hour and twenty-five
minutes. The effort will be made in the
presence of responsible parties to avoid
any criticisms over the performance If he
succeeds in his undertaking. He will not
be content until he meets Murphy and
defeats him or brings down the record.
The Hudson County Wheelmen met
last nignt-a big meeting it was-and
completed arrangements for the enter
tainment of the boys of the Pennsylvania
Bi Club, who will be the guests OF the
Hudson county boys tomorrow and Sun
day.
E. I. Mclaughlin. Jr.. one of the best
wheelmen in the H. G. w, intends enter
ing Lafayette College nex fall. He in
tends becoming a lawyer and is now en-
gagged In the law department of the Cen
trial Railroad.
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Cape May and reports that he is slowly
improving. He has been ill for several
months.
Baggott has recovered from the effects
of the shaking up he received two weeks
ago.
A party of the New York Athletic Club
are training at Charter Oak Park. Hart
ford. They will tomorrow try and lower
the records from one to five miles.
At the annual meeting of the League
of American Wheelmen, to be held at
Niagara Falls on August 90, an amend
ment to create two classes of member
ship, the professional and the amateur,
will be voted on.
The H. G. W., If the weather is propiti-
GUS, will have several special runs this
month.
Yachting Notes.
The races postponed from the regatta
of the Jersey City Yacht Club were to
have been sailed tomorrow. Many of the
boats entered are away, and the commit
tee has decided to defer the races until
the last Saturday in this month. There
are boats on the list, divided
into our classes. In the first class for
cabin yachts over 35 feet long H.. C.
Roome's Conard, j. N. Tappan's Annie,
H. B. Persons Gertrude, Commodore
Abbett's Nimrod, John Wright's
Naomi and j. Firth's Water Witch are
entered. In class 2 for cabin yachts under
35 feet and over 2S feet are entries w. E.
Aigettinger's Cute, G. A. Van Horne's
Bessie. S.. G.. Babcock's Elfin, A. Roe's
Alex Forsythe, j. E. Haywood's Wabasso,
and the Kismet. In class 3 for cabin
yachts under % feet the entries are a. M.
Platt's Katrina, G.. H. Benson's Mile
open sloops are Bob Donshea's Knight
Templar and d. II. Benefits Psyche.
The Newark Bay Yacht Club will hold
it's annual regatta on Saturday of next
week. The course will be the usual one
on Newark Bay, off Bayonne.
There are few vacant rooms at the club
house of the Pavonia 7. G. at the Allan
tic Highlands. TIL big boats of the fleet
are constantly anchored In the vicinity Of
the comfortable HEADQUARTERS. while the
club house at Communipaw is almost de-
serted. The new club house Is q grand
success.
The Oceanic Yacht Club members are
determined to make the regatta q success,
and arrangements nave been made to give
their guests a royal welcome.
Notes.
The Active Boat Club has had its house
towed to the foot of Fourth street, Hobo
ken. 1t is singular that this clubs in
vincible four have not appeare d this sea-
son In the regattas.
The ten thousand dollar house of the
Valencia Boat Club is almost completed.
The house is a handsome and commodi-
Gus structure, rs by 35 feet. The club,
too. has expended 81, ZOO recently in
adding new boats to its fleet.
The annual meet of the American Ca
noe Association will begin. tomorrow.
The encampment is at Jessup's Neck.
near Greenport. L. I. 1t is estimated that
three hundred canoeisrs and their fami-
lies will participate in the encampment.
The Hudson County Jockey Club offers
another find card today. There are six
races, and as the horses are we'll handi-
capped. the patrons of the Gutenberg
track will see even contests. In the first
race there are twelve entries, in the sec
ond there are six, in the third IL, in the
fourth II, in the fifth 7and in the sixth IL.
Commodore PEBBLES. Fred Collins, John
Collins and Warren Berry, of the Bay
onne Canoe Club, will attend the en-
campment at Jessup's Neck. Captain
Stevens. of the Newark Bay Boat Club,
will represent his club there.
The New Jersey A. G. will ha We q canoe
regatta on Newark Bay.