The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-01
On the Riha Ranra.

The Miller Rifle Club held its weekly
medal competition on the Hudson street
range on Wednesday night. The men
were arranged into three classes, the
medals in Zach class being won as fol-
lows:-Plaisted, first class, 238; Captain
Dewey, second class, 217; Volk, third
class, 219. The other scores were:-Meyers,
231: Luthich, 206: Betky, 203; Korbach,
1877; Zoch, 201; Schwartz. ali; Schiick,
Carroll, 1872; Kamell. 101.
The Miller Rifle Club has entered a
protest against the decision of the Shoot
ing Committee in charge of the tourna-
ment of the Krieger Burd at Schultzen
Park. on Tuesday, which depriyes it's
members of the prizes they justly won.
The United Amateur Rifle Association
will hold a shooting festival at Caledon-
ian Park on Monday, August IL.
George Plaisted, of the Miller Club,
made a score of 20 out of a possible IS, at
Armbuster's Greenville Schuetzen Park.
on Wednesday.
The defeat Of Frank Glass, of the Essex
Gun Club, on Wednesday, at Long
Branch, by Captain John Brewer, Of
Philadelphia. in a on hundred bird
match for $500 a side, was a surprise TO
the trap shooters of this vicinity who had
backed Glass for a winner. The men
made excellent scores, and there was a
difference Of but two birds at the finish.
Brewer; killed 81 and his opponent 95.
Glass has done considerable practice work
on the Jersey City Heights Gun Clubs
grounds.
Yachting Notes.
The Newark Yacht CLUB will give its
eighth annual regatta on Saturday. Au-
gust 16. The race will be over the regu-
lar ten mile course on Newark Bay, off
the new club house at Centreville, Bay
onne, and the start will be made at eleven
in the forenoon. There will be twelve
classes for boats of from twenty-five to
thirty-eight feet over all. The club will
give prizes to two yachts making the best
actual and corrected time over the course.
A. f. Adams, Hardy Bush and William
Humpage are the Regatta Committee.
A new thirty-two foot cabin yacht has
been completed for William A. Davis.
The craft will be known as the Nellie d.
She will JOIN one Of the Communipaw
fleets.
The cruise of the New York Yacht Rae
ing Association ends today.
The Jersey City Yacht Club will hold
an important meeting next Tuesday even
ing.
annual club regatta on Sunday over a
triangular course of ten miles. There
will be but n class, and the owner of
the winning yacht will receive a pennant.
Bowlers as Ball Tossers.
The Kliklow Bowling Club, not salts
fed with being the champions at knock
ing down the pins, intend to branch out
now as knights of the diamond, and will
endeavor to knock the corners off the
balls made by Spalding and keep their
opponents hard at work doing a little
leather hunting; Tommy Cummings,
who is considered the father of the ma
tional game in this city, has begun ar
rangements to secure a date with the
Oritani Field Club, the Kliklow's old OPP
ponents on the alleys. The manner in
which the Kiiklows downed the Oritanis
at bowling make them confident that
they can %vanquish the Hackensack boys
with bat and ball. They are anxious to
make the attempt at any rate. and Kill
ley, Muller, Casey, Cummings, John and
Fred Peibes, the hard hitters of the club,
have gone into training for the tray.
Cummings will do his work next week at
Saratoga In company with Jack Smith.
yictors and vanquished.
Subjoined are the results of yesterdays
championship c~ontents:-