The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-02-20
The AthIetic Arena.

The Tabernacle Athletic Association
will have an entertainment on March 10.
The Amateur Athletic Union has al
lowed the Seventy-first Regiment Ath-
letic Association the 2sth inst. on which
to hold a series of games. The programme
of events arranged for the occasion in
cludes the following:-Fifty yards run
handicap; $50 yards run for novices
scratch: one mile and a half run, handi
cap; one mile and a half walk, handicap
running high jump, handicap; nifty yards
run, scratch, open only TO memOers OF the
regiment, and a one mile, scratch, open
only to members Of the regiment. There
will also be a tug of wal contest open Go
teams Weighing $50 pounds. Entries
close on the 21st inst.
Boxing tourney of the Mohican A. G..
at Saenger Hall, Newark, this evening.
The Scots have entered Hart and Looney6
The District meeting of th Q A. A. u,
will be held next Monday.
Wayne Cubs games at Caledonian
Park next Monday.
Zimmerman and Bowman, the crack
bicyclisus of the New Jersey A. c., have
presented a bill for the expenses incurred
by the Wheelmen during their tour last
season. The club will not pay the bill; IL
was not authorized, and the riders will
probably leave and join the Manhattan
A. G.
The Acorn Athletic Association will
have a boxing tournament at Robertson's
Gymnasium, Brooklyn, next Thursday
night. There will be two classes-115
pounds and 100 pounds. Entries close
next Monday night, with w. II. Robert
son, No. 294 Broadway.
The Board Of Managers Of the A. A. U.
will meet at the Astor House tomorrow
morning.
d. Connors OF the Scots was defeated by
O'Toole of the Down Town A. G. last
night at the boxing tourney Of the
Brooklyn A. G..
the Noupareil and Downtown A. c. will
be held at the Clermont Avenue Rink IN
Brooklyn on March 2 and 4. The weights
are as follows:-Bantam weight limit, los
pounds; feather weight limit, lis pounds;
special weight Limit, 125 pounds; light
weight limit, 135 pounds, and weller
weight limit. las pounds.
The officials of the StuyVesant A. C. of
Harlem are making big preparations for
the clubs boxing tournament, which will
be held at Parepa Hall on the 23d inst.
The events open to all amateurs are as
fOllows:-Bantam weight limit, 105
pounds; feather weight limit, lis pounds;
special weight limit, 125 pounds, and light
weight limit, 1876 pounds.
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door meeting at Madison Square Garden
on March IA. The events open to all
amateurs are as follows:-Seventy yard
Tun, handicap limit four yards; seventy
yard hurdle race, handicap limit five
yards; two hundred and twenty yard run,
handicap limit ten yards; four hundred
and forty yard run, handicap limit
twenty yards; one thousand yard run,
handicay limit forty-iye yards; one mile
run, handicap limit seventy five yards;
five mile run. handicap limit one minute
aud a half; IN mile walk, handicap limit
t~hirty-ive seconds; running broad jump,
handicap limit sixteen inches; four
hundred and forty yard run for novices
(scratch).
The Pastime A. c., OF Elizabeth, n. J.
will hold an open handicap cross country
run on WashingUon's Birthday. The
distance will be six miles. Over fifty
athletes have entered. including many Of
the cracks in this city, Brooklyn and New
Jersey. The individual prizes consist of
a gold watch TO first, a gold headed cant
to second and a gold medal TO third. A
handsome silk banner Will be presented
to the club whose athletes score the
greatest number of points.