The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-21
WAYNE CLUB DEAD.
The Once Prominent Ath-
1etic Organization
DiSbandS.
GUTTENBERG'S BIG GAIN
In Its Fight with the Board
Of Control-F00tball
Notes.

The Wayne Athletic Club has surrend-
cred the ghost. Its final meeting was
held last night. The attendance was not
large. Only the few who Ia struggled
hard to avert a collapse were present.
They have worked hard to build up the
club and have laborsd in vain. There has
been no gain, nothing to encourage them
to continue. Weary and discouraged, they
have concluded to abandon the fight, and
the grand old club goes OF existence.
A dozen years ago the club was promi-
nent. 1t was composed of young men
who were enthusiastic and ambitious. Ii
had many superb athletes on its list and
the clubs colors were seen at the front
frequently. This was when athletics
were at the zenith of their popularity and
clubs were springing up like mushrooms.
Then the interest began to a0ate
in field sports and boxing and
Athletes were not ~pugnacious and did
not catch the %scrapping fever. They
were strong numerically, easy financially.
with well equipped and attractive quar-
ters. But the athletes, with practically
no inducements to train, retired. The club
COutluuou dS q SOIb il SOCldl OlSndlLhtAOG
for a time. Then a factional fight started
and the club died. Three years ago some
of those who had been active in the club
met by accident. Interest in athletics
had been revived, and after a chat OF the
good old days of the Waynes, they de-
cided to make an effort to resuscitate the
club. A meeting vas called and over
start. The club was soon established
and installed in the home of the
old Orion Rowing and Athletic As
sociation. The club was in a
f1ourishing condition ane IL looked as ii
it had come to stay. Then an element
Office instead OF competent and energetic
men and those who ha d been it's best
hustlers were retired. The good fellows"
of COURSE did nothing and the club lost
many of its best members. 1t finally was
forced to quit its home and located in
Csledonian Park. This was a mistake.
When the picnic season began they mad
to abandon their meetings and the MEM
bers became tired of going to the park to
ind mn picnic party in possession and
when the club did meet. only a corporaFs
guard was present. Even some of its
best runners were Disguised and joined
other clubs. The Waynes had one of the
strongest cross-country teams in the vicin-
lty. VoRellus, one of It's runners, Won the
junior cross-country cham pionship aud
its team was Second in the national cross
country run two years 20. VogeIlus
and Glossy, Two of its best runner nave
resigned and the others in the team
threatened to 60 TO stronger climbs.
The members were discouraged last
night when they started for the meeting.
and Disguised on reaching the room to
tEd that SOM thief mad raided the place
and appropriated all of value that could
be conveniently carried. That was the last
straw. No one was disposed to continue
the struggle to keep the organization
alive, and the motion to disband was
adopted. The pallbearers are R. H.
Blackburn, E. E. Berrigan, W. Berrigan
j. Kuse, James Gill and 4. j. Yarrow.
They were selected as the committee to
close up the affairs of the club.