The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-20

Faulkner, Herig and Kaiser. TIT con-
testants on the card for omorrow even
ing are Bishop, Prior. Carr and Bald.
The tournament will close during the
third week in May.
The Athletic Arena
The New York A. c. and the Staten
Island A. c. are at war. The former
blames the latter for shutting the n. Y.
A. C.'s lacrosse players out OF the Eastern
Association, and IN retaliated by noti-
flying the Islanders that the dates of the
n. Y. A C.'s baseball team with the s. 1.
A. G. are cancelled. The New Yorks will
not enter any Of its athletes In the Islands
club games.
At the indoor games Of the Seventy
fourth Regiment A.. A. at Buffalo Satur-
day niznt, two worlds records were
broken. s. K. Benson, b. A. c.. won the
final heat ia the sixty yards in 90 sec
ouds, knocking Two hfths OF a second on
the high marx. j. NJ. Mason OF the same
club lowered the sixty yards sack record
from 9% seconds to Q fiat. f. l. Sarre OF
the NJ. A. G. won the go aud 40 yard
runs, and finished second III the sixty
yard dash.
The officers of the Brighton Beach
Racing Association were SO well pleased
with the successful outcome of the first
annual championship team races OF the
Long Island Cross Country Association
that they propose to offer q handsome
cup to be raced for. after the champion
ship races next Saturday, under the di-
rection OF the officers OF the Long Island
Cross Country Association. The event
will be thrown open to all amateurs IN
America, aud invitations will be extended
to the leading amateur organizations
throughout the country TO make entries
TO the event.
An important convention of the Ma
tional Cross Country Association will be
held at the Arena. Forty-one West
Tnirty-irst street, tonight. at eight
O'CLOCK All the details of the Dig cham
piOnship races at Morris Park race
course, on Saturday next, will be CON-
pieted. The disqualification of Louis
Behier of the Acorn Athletic Associa-
ton, who was protested at the chamDion-
ship run of the Long Island Cross Cou
try Association on Saturday, viii also be
considered. But the event which prom
ises TO disrupt the meeting Is the quarrel
over the entries Of the Acorn Athletic
Association team to the Junior race.
President John III. Mellor OF the Long
Island Association. who made the protest
against the Acorn entries being received,
is willing to let the team in now that
they have won the local championship.
III u entries are rejected we will with
draw and organize a new association, de-
voted TO cross country running said an
Acorn man yesterday.
The Johnson Athletic Gu will ave an
entertainment at Bergen Hall this even
ing. The array Of talent IS a long one.
The list was given in THE NEWS several
DAVIS ago.
Dody Parker is anxious to arrange a
four-round o with Cahiil, Butler or
Van Houten-
The senior and junior team c~ross-coun-
try championships will be decided next
Saturday at Morris Park under the direc-
ton Of the National Cross Country Assoc
citation.
The Scots will rave their final stag en-
tertainment next Monday night. The
windup will be a four-round bout be-
tween Hartwell of the Gables and Con-
nors of the Scots for a trophy.
The Aoorns won the junior honors and
the Prospect Harriers the senior prize at
the cross-county Of the Long Island
Association, oil Saturday.
The best Individual score at the inter-
collegiate championship is hat of Z. Lar
kin, of Princeton, he having taken nine
first prizes, Of which four-the standing
high and broad jumps and the hammer
and shot-were won in 1878. and four
more in the same events in the year
following. q. II. Sheriff.. of Yale. has a
listlof seven championships-the 100 yards
dash Of 1857 and both the 100 yards aud go
yarcs for each of the three yearsssinee.
w. SoreD. OF Harvard, whose specially
was jumping, also won seven first prizes,
but captured three seconds In addition,
against Sherrill's one. OF other big inter
collegiate winners II. H. Lee, of the uni
versity of Pennsylvania, and Z. J. Wen
dell, of Harvard, sprinters: W. Fl, Good
win, of Harvard, the middle distance
runner, and A B. Coke, of Yale, the
weight thrower, are the NEST prominent,
eacn having won six firsts. No college
athlete has won just five firsts. but half a
dozen men have captured four.
The special third annual bOxing tourna-
ment of the West End A. A. will be held
in Saenger's Hall, Newark, N. j., on
MAY 2 and 4. The events are as follows:
Special weight limit ITO pounds, special
weight limit 100 pounds. light weight
limit 135 pounds, weller weight limit 145
pounds.
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