The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-19
Wheeling Notes.

A dozen of the Catholic Clubs cyclers look a
run Yesterday TO Englewood.
Nine of the Jersey City A.. c. wheelmen went
to Passaic, and as many more took a spin TO
Plainield.
Eight of the Curtis Club cyclers ran to Plain
Twenty cyclers of the Castle Point Club went
to Pomptop yesterday.
A number of lyn clubs sought out points
in New Jersey. The Long Island wheelnen rode
10 Hackensack. and the Brooklyn Bicycle C,ub
20 Morrstown. Some members of the East
Orange cyclers rode TO Westfield. The Central
Park wheelmen visited Plainfield.
A club has been organized in New Haven COM
posed exclusively of colored men. It is called
the Elm City Bicycle Club.
The entries for the Tourist Cycle Clubs race
meet. to be held on July 4, will close on June %
with G. H. Beckwitb Paterson.
George Smith of the Riverside Wheelmen re-
Gently rode a mile at Springfield in 2 minutes 10
sec onds. It is expected that Smith will lower
the one-mile record, held by Wendle, before the
racing season is over.
1t seems unlikely that the disturbing element
in the l. A. w, haiing from Connecticut and
Massachusetts. will succeed in calling a Ma
tional Assembly meeting. Such an event would
be very expensive to the L. A. w.
have secured S. Wallis Merrihew, a prominent
j. A. w. man, of Wilmington, Del, to act as
official Handicapped. The entries for the races
to be held in this city on July 8 and 4 will close
June "a. instead of June 28
At the annual race meeting of the Riverside
Wheelmen, to be held on July s at Manhattan
Field. the following races will be run: Cue
mile novice. one mile handicap, one mile
scratch. half mile L.. A. w. State champion
ship, two mile handicap, ten mile Invitation
race.
his appeal for funds TO send Il racing team to
this country. says. "No Englishman worthy of
the name will suppose for a moment that this
country cannot put a team of cycle racing anna
teurs in the field capable OF holding their own
against the world"
II. I. Arnold of the North Road and Stanley
Cycling Clubs broke all the previous records for
tricycling, from four miles TO fifteen miles in
elusive, at Kensal-rise. England. on June 6. His
time for the latter distance was 40 minutes &c
2.5 seconds. DR.. E. B.. Turner's 42 minutes 27
IS seconds. at Paddington. on July Is, 1890. was
the previous best. Mr.. Pembroke Coleman, N.
C. U, took the time.
Diamond Chips.
Yale easily vanquished Princeton on Saturday
at the Polo Grounds. Princeton PLAYED very
yellow ball for five innings and allowed Yale to
seymen pulled themselves together and began
to bat and field. They rolled up seven runs.
Yale added three more, making the totals IA to
z. Princeton had IA errors and Yale had b.
Saturday at the Cricket Grounds, Hoboken.
The score of the big college game was dupli-
Gated. The Giants made ID runs and the Flush
The Bergens beat the South Orange Field
Club Oh the latier's field. The score was:-
Bergen, e, South Orange 2.
" Ho AIOLla IA SaH f'tl0 q ~ IL Y
own field on Saturday by the Lafayette Wheel
men. The score was IA to Q.
The Cuban Giants played at Newark yester-
day and beat the Ironsides by II to /.
Stovey. who made his reputation as a pitcher
while with the Jersey City club. has left the
Cuban Giants, and is twirling for the Murray
Hill club. His team defeated the Ridgewoods
Yesterday by 9 TO 6.
Over half a million persons have attended the
championship games Ia the East so far. New
York leads all the Eastern cities ia this respect,
1s5. 900 cranks having seen the twrpty-four
games played at the polo ground; and yet they
say base ball is dead.
Ward has protested the eleven inning Chicago
game of last Friday on two counts. First. be-
cause Doyle was not allowed to go to his base
when hit on the arm by a pitched ball; second,
because LANCE was not declared out on Anson's
interference with Fuller.
2TheY Y. NJ. G. A. is have a base ball team. The
players had a practice game on Saturday Oh the
Communipaw Flats. and the new secretary
took Q band.
Dixon and Pierce MetcIed.
George Dixon, the worlds feather weight
champion, was matched yesterday TO fight
Eddie Pierce Of New York. to a fiIish for a
SIS 500 purse offered by the Coney Island Athie-
tic Cub. The battle will take place on
August Z. The conditions OF the mach call for
the men to weigh in ar 100 pounds at noon on
the day. of the fight. OF the purse, the loser
will receive but $500.
WIN Tsuiid ~ Hand Hall Court.
Il hand ball court Is to be built in this city by
John Hran, an enthusiast. lie has secured four