The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-05-25
LIVELY ATHLETES.
Four Clubs Had Field Meet
ings-Pigeon Fly-0ther
Events.

The athletes were out again yesterday.
The Lorfiard A. C. held another serie-
Of handicap club events, the Sylvia A =
had a club meeting, and the Wayne A. {.
engaged In . cross country run. The
Waynes expected the team OF the Mohl-
ran A c., but the Newark athletes failed
TO appear, and the local runners had 10 70
IL alone. They had a large field OF start
err and . spirited go. The start and nnlsn
was At the G~reenville Schuetzen PARK,
and he turning point was az willow
Haven, on Newark Bay, a distance OF
about four miles. 1t was q picturesque
codroe and the runners trayersed lsln
fair time. Vogellus, who started Iron
tho scratch, quickly cut down the oener
minute in advance of George Bowman.
Voeollus' time was 81 minutes. Bowman
had thirty seconds start. L. j. 1arrow,
who had ( start Of four minutes, was the
third man In. These three won the
prizes. The first, for the fastest time. was
won br Voaeilus. The novice prize,
which Wa to 20 the first man OF the Visit.
ing team In, was awarded to Yarrow, ana
the novice prize for the home team was
won By Bowman.
The Sylvas' games were interesting anu
ali It's members were present and all LOOK
uart In the contests and the results were
close. b. Baecht acted as referee, j. MOTIF
arity as Judge of walking, j.. Howen anu
II. Ferret as judges and B. Balch n A.
EibIl as timers and w. Buehle as starter
Tho events and winners were as lot
lows
Putting Sixteen-pound Shct-F. A
Cassidy, /; W. Gensen. q c. Pressier, b.
Running High Jump-B. Adams. /; w.
Gensen, 2; w. Hilliard, 3.
Standing Broad Jump-W. Hilliard' l;
w. Gensen, 2, Pressler, 3.
One Hundred Yards Run-Pressler l,
Gensen, 2; Cassidy, B.
Half-mile Walk-Gensen, l. B. Adams,
Quarter-mile Ruu-Cassidy, l; B.
Adams, 2; Geusen, 8.
Two ndred and twenty yards dash
Gensen, L; M. Burkhard, 2.
Half-mile run-B. adams, /; Gensen,
2; Burkhard, B.
The Loriliard Athletes had another
series of handicap contests yesterday
for the all around championship OF the
One hundred yard rum. Flaherty
(scratchl. first; J. Moran q yard, second;
and ]. Hodnett tscratch), third. Time, IL
rs seconds.
Quarter mile rum. Flahertv (scratch).
first; J. Hodnett (15 yards) and j. Moran
ran q dead heat for second place. They
aRreed to toss up a coin for the place. n
Hodnett won. Time. so Is seconds.
Running broad jump (scratch). -
Hodnett, IS feet Z inches, first; J.
Elaherty, IS feet 4 inches. second, and j.
Moran, II feet II inches. third.
One mile run Flaherty (scratch1.
&rsts-A. Bruhn Clio yards) }, second. The
remainder Of the seven competitors quit.
Time, 5 minutes and ID SECONDS.
The leading men TO date follow:-J.
Tlaherty. "A points; ]. Moran, 10; J. hod-
net, III A. Bruhn, II, and f. Dolan, s.
The William M. Barry Athletic Club
practiced at Seacaucus yesterday. A
1ame Of football was played between the
Barry team and a picked team captained
BY Thomas Curry, which resulted In a
victory for the Barry Club, making two
points to their opponents two points
The feature Of the Rame was the excel
lent playing of Gallagher Of the Barry
team. After the football game they took
part In athletic contests.
The running hop, skip and jump was
won by e o. Holleran, distance 43 feet /
inch
The standing jump was won by Null
cahy. distance 80 feet 2 inches.
H<a.ssS high jrccr wss sEcn By n.
O'HoIleran. distance 5 feet 10H inches.
Putting sixteen-pound sho5 was won
BY N. Mulcahy. distance "a feet 5 inches.
Putting % pound was won by K O..
H0ileran, distance "a II. 6 in
The team will play their first champion
ship Rame on Sunday with the irish
American Athletic Club Of New York at
Era8ttna, Staten Island.