The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-09
ATHLETIC ARENA.
Three Open Meetings for
Labor Day and Entries
Numerous.
ZIMMERMAN BREAKS A RECORD
And Captured Two Races-Cahill
In Training-Cricket and
Yachting Notes.
ZIMMERMAN BREAKS A RECORD

TIE Trades Unions will lave their an.
nual athletic games and picnic on Labor
Day, sc Caledonian Park. The games
have been authorized by the Amateur
Athletic Union, and as elaborate prizes
have been offered. there viii be a large
number Of starters in each of the events.
Five are handicaps. The only scratch
event ~ the six hundred yards novice
race. The entries. are arriving fast, aud
exceed by lwofoid the numbsr received
III previous years sb Tar In advance OF the
day of closing Ths entries close GU
August %. WITH Louis Gruber. No. 500
Newark avenue.
The New Jarses A. G.. will hold It's an
nual carnival of sports on Monday. Sep
TENDER 4 (LRDor Day. The following
events will Do glVeu:--100 yards run,
handicap; 220 yards hurdle, haadicap;
l mile walk. handicap; 4 mile run.
scrRlch, invitation race; l mile run, han-
dlcap; $50 yards run. nandicap; running
broad jump. handicap: $40 yards run.
handicap; l mile bicycle race, handicap;
2 mile bicycle race. handicap. Haadsons
prizes will lie given to FIRST. secUud aud
third in zach event. Tine entries viii
close with James E. Sullivan, Sporting
Times office, No. 24l broadway, on Sat-
urday, August 26.
The fifth annual games OF st. Georges
Athletic Club Will DC held next Saturday
at st. Georges Athletic Field, formerly
Monitor Park, Weehawken. The athletic
event will be held under the RUSS OF tha
A. A. y. The bicycle race will bs nsid
under the sanction of L. a. w. Racing
Board II l.. A. w. rules. Tine folio wing
events are open to all amatsurs;-loO
yard dash, handicap; 220 yards low hur-
die, handicap; 440 Yards ran, handicap;
half mile run, handicap; one mile run,
handicap; running broad jump, handt-
cap; obstacle race; two mile blcyle race.
Very handsome gold and silver AMI
bronze die medals will be given to first,
second and third in each event, and
souvenirs 60 all finishing the handicap
obstacle race. An entrance fee OF fifty
cents for each event must accompany
each entry,
Tine Scottish-Amsrican A. c. has taken
q new lease Of life and 10 the only club
In the lower section of the city that Is
awake. They intend giving a series of
invitation cross-country runs aud will
start early III the season.. the ciuu has
an excsllent team and Lhe runners are
Keeping IN form. They nave spins
almost nightly. Tom Vogsllus is train
ing hard Tor ths Invitation race wnIeh
Will be the event at the gaines of The New
Jersey A. C.. on Labor Day. he Is cou-
ddent that hs will make the pace a not
one for Connect aud Day. There are
several crack-a-Jacks 10 tue event, 1us
Vogeilus declares he will get u place.
The Scots will hold their next regut r
nee ing on Friday night of next week.
Inc Jersey City and the GreeRgilie r..
NJ. Q. A. athletes will have \ isid asf
on Late Day. The athletes are getting
tn snaps for tue contests and this events
WllI ue spirited. Siuoa the uuluu OF tins
athletic departments of the TWO oraan-
iZntions which has enabled them TO put
The field at the foot or Chapel aysuus IA
condition., there has besu a big BOOM and
aroused the interest of the members III
athletic affairs. The Exc cusive Com
mittee will meet on Friday night TO ar
range the for the fsid day /.
The tennis players of the Jersey City Z
n. Z. A. are practising regularly aud
auxious for another handicap tourna-
menk.
The Aroma A. e. will hold its annual
reception ON September IS at Metropoii-
tan Hail, Grseaviils.
Several Jersey City athletes and wheel
men Will compete for the valuable y rlzes
at Waverly on Saturday. August rs. Ina'
meet is unde tina auspices OF the River
side A. C., The bicycle events are l mile
novice, l mile handicap, half mills
scratch, half mile handicap aud 3 mlte
team race. Ths athletic events ara: leo
yards handicap. 300 yar,ts handicaDs, 440
yards handicap, $50 yards handicpp, ]
mile handicap and a 8 mile special for .
diamond pin. The prizes are gold aud
silver watches and diamond Plus. Ea-
tries close on August 10 with c.. L. Ei-
wArds, Lincoln and Arlington Avenues,
Newark.
NATIONAL COMMITTEES MEETING.
The "A. A. U. ComLnlttee having III args
OF the Worlds Fair Athletic tournamsne
held an important conferences in the
OH se of Treasurer CARTS on Monday.
The following representatives were pres
ent: A. e. Spalding, and Harry s..
Cornish. Chicago A. A; Julius Harder,
Chicago: w. b. Curtis. treasurer A. A.
u. and James E. Sullivan, the A. A. U.
secretary.
The Chicago A. A. u. delegates sprung
an agreeable surprise Dy announcing tha5
they had secured permission TO have the
swimming championship decided Within
the Fair boundaries in the jackson Park
Lagoon. The events will be 100 yard,
quarter mile, half mile and mile races for
the regular A. A. U. championship emb-
lem. Wednesday, September ID, mas