The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-04
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The Carteret Lawn Tennis Club has
elected the following officers for this sea
son:-President, A. N. Spooner; Vice
President, H. E. Hall; Treasurer, w. r.
Dumond; Secretary, W. +. kiumpp.
The Irish American Athletic Club has
been organized in Hoboken with the fol-
lowing oficers:-President. John Falve;
Vice President, c. A. Dessert; Financial
Secretary, S. j. Kelly; Recording Score
tary, L. +. Harrigan: Corresponding Sec
retary, T. NJ. White; Treasurer, F.. c.
Neumeyer; Sergeant-at-Arms. J. z. Glea-
son; Board of Governors, Messrs. w. j.
O'Donnell, d. Sullivan, d. j. Maloney
and I. Warren.
The National Cross Country Association
has decided that the following amend
ment5 TO the constitution passed at a re-
cent meeting are ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ducing the distance of the junior cross
country championship from eight to four
miles and striking out that section of art
icle z requiring clubs to SEND in their
team candidate lists two months previous
to the championship race. President
Williams in consequence announced
Thursday that they were null ana void.
This decision does away with the privi-
lsge of allowing clubs to send in their
lists up to April IS or to add n names to
lists already in the hands of the secretary
and also definitely settles the distance of
the junior cross country championship
race.
Bill Dunn of this city is among the pro-
f%essionals engaged 10 box at the tourna-
ment of the New York A. C. on April IL.
The New Jersey Jockey Clubs course
is to be converted into a poultry farm. 1t
has be en- leased for That purpose.
Union county will loose annually over
four thousand dollars in taxes, as the two
race courses will be turned into farms.
Thyme leads In the Individual bowlin z
tournament with 8 victories and no de-
feats. Keller of Hoboken is second with
5 victories and 1defeat.
The Down Town A. Z. is disrupted.
Lavelle has been expelled, but he holds
the charter.
The junior cross country team of the
New Jersey A. G. will run over the
championship course at Morris Park on
Sunday afternoon. The boys will meet
at One hundred and T~wenty-ninth
street ana Third venue at half-past one
O'Clock sharp. All cross country runners
are invited to compete.
The annual convention Of the Eastern.
Association Of amateur lacrosse players
will be held at the Sturtevant House to-
night at eight O'Clock. j. L. MeLain
will retire from the presidency, and Ed
ward Merritt has been asked to become a
candidate for the office.
The baseball cranks in this se.tion
have petitioned the Central Railroad
Company to stop all Saturday afternoon
trains at the West Side avenue station,
so that players and visitors may be en-
abled to see the games Of the West Ber-
gen A. A.
An official A. A. U. book or guide will
be issued. 1t will be complied by f. w.
JansseBs and published by Spalding.
The fourteenth annual boxing tourna
ment OF the Star Athletic Club will be
held at Puritan A. G. Hall. Long Island
City, Monday evening, April %. The
weights. open to all amateurs, are 105,
115, lbs, 135, and 145. The prizes will be
gold medals to first and second men in
each event, and special stress is laid upon
the fact that the medals will cost just as
much as is permitted by A b. C. rules,
that is to say S35.
The Staten island Athletic Club is pre-.
pairing for an active season. They intend
to hold big sets of games on May 9 and
July IL, and will spare no effort to make
them successful. The rowing season will
be started next week, when the following
float will be put out at the boat house. A
new eight-oared she'll will be ordered
from Troy for the intermediate eight.
Three crews, junior, senior aud inter
mediate. will be put in training at once
with the object of sending them to the
Passaic Regatta on Decoration Day. a
dinner will be rendered the champion ten
bowling team on April Is. Ladies' nights
Will be continued every Thursday up to
May l.