The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-01
LABOR DAY GAMES.
Success of the New Jersey
Athletic Clubs Carni-
val is Assured.
DANFORTH CARTERET TOURNAMENT.
Day and Commit Getting Ready for
a Great Race-Items Of Interest
in the Sporting World.

The success of the New Jersey A. Z.
Labor Day carnival, from an athletic
standpoint, seems insured.
The entries for the various events on
the attractive programme are both nu-
merous and representative, over three
hundred having been received.
Almost every club and section in the
Metropolitan District is sending a con-
tingent. while the Boston A. A. and
other New England clubs also seem de-
rermined to make a strong bid for the
gold c~hronographs and incidental glory.
Among the host of sprinters the names
of such cracks as E. Allen. Yale College;
Warren Craft, n. J. A. c.; J. Spelman.
Varuna B. C.; S. A, Combs, Boston A.
a, and William Il. Lyon. New Haven,
are conspicuous.
The quarter and half-mile runs will be
rendered exceptionally interesting by the
presence OF such hign class middle dis
lance runners rs J.. Spelmau, Varuna B.
C.; ?. j. Finneran, Boston A. A.; Frank
CLARK, N. ia. c.; Frank Barnard, Union
Z. G.; Harry Barclay, Lorillard A. c: ii.
H. Morrell, N. Y. A. C., and E. Hjerl-
berg, n. j.. A. c.
The distance runs have attracted all
the notables, including A. b. George,
Willie Day, L. Hjertberg and H.. Jaehn e,
n. j. A. c.; Il. H. Collins, Varuna B. c.,
aud w. O'Keeffe and II. j. Dunlap,
Xavier A. 4.
E. Z. Barnes. New Jersey A. C., Fl. H.
MoIrell, New Yosk A. c., and P. j. Fin
neran, Boston "A. A, will nave to do some
exceptional racing in the hurdles to sue
cesstully give way haudicaps to u large
field of oppon ents.
The same cracks will also play a prom
inent part in the jumps and other field
events in which NJ. O'Sullivau, the all
rouhd champion of America, will also be
seen TO great advantage.
Altogether the carnival promises to
furnish a unique spectacle, and arrange
ments are being made for the accommo-
dat1on of an unusually large holiday
crowd at the picturesque grounds of the
club, Bergen Point.
Trains will leave foot of Liberty street
at one O'Clock. l.30, 90, 2.30 and Boo
O'Clock 2. NJ, aId run direct 20 New Jer-
sey A. G. new station adjoining grounds.
The 800 o'clock train will reach in time
for the great Day-Conneff race, which will
be the concluding event. Trains return
at equally convenient intervals.
Day and Connect In Good Form.
The latest reports from the New jersey
and Manhattan grounds verify the
rumors current earlier in the week that
both Willie Day and T. P. Conneff are
running remarkably fast against the
watch. Day has been given a holiday
aad is deyotirg all his time to putting on
The finishing touches. In view of sthe
fact that he already holds the American
record for the distance, his personal state
ment yesterday that he is perfectly salts
fed with his condition is very suggestive.
Those who know most of Connects
doings are the most positive in asserting
that the game little Irishman can win at
whatever stage of the race he chooses to
cut loose.
b entries of E. Hjertberg, A. B..
George, w. O'Keefe, K. H. Collins, H.
Jaehne and w. h. Yard, who will ali be
allotted handicaps, imports a fresh ele-
ment of uncertainty into the contest, and
the spectators who can pick the actual
winner can carry home a years income.
Getting Ready for the Championships.
The fifth annual championship meeting
of the Amateur Athletic Union of the
United States, will be held at Manhattan
Field, Saturday, Oct. 1. The Champion
ship Committee of the A. A. U, Messrs.
}: E. Sullivan, Harry Mcmillan aud
walter simpson, yesterday appointed
the following local committee TO assist
them IN managing the great October
meet: Eugene Van Schaick, NJ. A. c.;
j. B. Anderson. NJ. A. c.; S. f. G. Black
hurst, NJ: Y. A. c.; 7. C. Wilson, N. Y. A.
G.; Hugh s. Hart, Xavier A. A.; IL. Dimse,
Bank Clerks a. A.; E. Cushman, St.
George A. G. This will be the most i'm
portant fixture of the year, and athletes
from Detroit, Cleveland, Waship gton.
a francisco, Rochester, Buffalo, Phila-
deiphia, Pittsburg and other points will
compete. The entries will close with j,
E.. Sullivan on Sep. "a.
zimmerman VIII Ride At Clifton,
The Passaic A. CTS entry list for the
games of Saturday September 8, has been
singalarly faTored. 1t has not only the
honor of being the largest list OF the sea-
SOD, but 1t contains the best talent OF the
country. Zimmerman, Taylor, Windie.
Berlo, Ricn, Wheeler, Hess, Smith,
Crotch, Judge inc many other cycling
celebrities are entered in the wheeling
races, and Connect, Halpin, Copeland,
George, Golf, ETC.. are in the runs. There
are II events, six wheeling and six run
mag. and the prizes are equal to any
given 9hiS year. The track is In superb
condition, superior IL possible, TO its sur
face in 1889, When several records were
touched. The accommodations are ample
for as large II crowd as ever attended a
race meet. aud the view OF the entire
track from the grand stands is perfect.
DanTorth-C arteret tournament
The second of the series of tourna-
ments between the Danforth Tennis Club
of Greenviile and the Carteret Tennis
Climb of Jersey City Heights, for'the Dos
session of the large silver cun VIII Ia