The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-02

LABOR DAY SPORTS
The Season Will End Will
Many Interesting
Events;
ON FIELD, TRACK AND BAY
Zimmerman Again Leads the Pro-
cession - Guttenberg's
Gates Reopen.

Outdoor sports, except football. will
wind. up en- Labor Day. 1t will be a grand
finish. The local baseball clubs have
double engagements. several cycling
clubs will hold race meets. there will be
three athletic field contests. and the big
yachting event of the season. the regatta
by the New York Yacht Racing Associa-
ton will be sailed. Several social or
CARNATIONS will have outings with games.
and il the weather is pleasant IL will
prove the jolliess of the holidays.
The greatest of the athletic meetings is
the carnival of the New Jersey Athletic
Club on its field at Bergen Point. Jersey
City athletes aud wheelmen have q deep
interest 10 it for the rerson that the best
of our cyclists and runners are entered,
and the Gallo football players will be
there to see the struggle of the local team
TO wiz the championship banner. The
card is the best that has pesn arranged
by the N. j. A. G. The events have nlled
well and will be exciting. In the Que
hundred yards dash there are ferty-eight
entries. E. w. Allen and w. NJ. Richards
are the scratch men. Wells Hamilton OF
the Greenville Y. NJ. G. A. is in with an
allowance of So yards, and Ricnard Null
len will be at the ~ Gsrd mark
CHAMPION RUNNERS WILL MEET.
'Twenty-eignt will compete in the one
mile handicap run. Tommy ConDed. the
champion will be at the sc rateh, and
Orion the Canadian champion will start
from the 20 yards mark. Herman
Jaehue OF Greenvllle will be at the 40
yarus mark. In the 220 yards hurdle race
fourteen Will start. Fred Puffer will bs
at the scratch. Barnes is GA the 4 yards
mark, and Harry Barclay Will have IL
yards start. Sam Leiogold. the amateur
ill - -. 49, IN fhA
one rnile marx. He will have to do a
lively heel and toe to pass ten smart
rivals among them Nlooll. who has 10 sa-
ccnds advantage and Levy and Coils who
haYs Is yards start. Forty-one competl-
tors are on the list for the 800 yards run.
E. W Allen and Richards will leave the
mark. Harry Barclay will have 10 yards
Herman Jaehue Is yards start. Vreden-
burg, Lee, Craft, Chritic. Pufsr and
other smart sDrinters are on tbs card. In
the half mfla run thirty-four will COM
pete. 1t viii be a splendid contest as four
will leave the scratch line. Ernie Hjsrt-
burg and NJ. E. Smith of the N. J., and
A. c., Orteu, the Canuck champion ana
Billings of the W. Y. A. c.. Jaehne will
be on the Is yards mark. In the broad
jump TWENTY-FIVE names are on the pro-
gramme. E.. Gof, the champion will be
the scratch man. The handicaps are
liberal. They range from 3 inches to
Sheldon TO 2 feet Q inches to Meyer
Cohen. Harry Barclay and Wells Hamil-
ton are allowed 2 feet.
IN EVENT OF H DAY.
The event OF The day for runners will
the fastest Ions distance runners will
start, including Tom VogelIus of this
city, who won the junior championship
at the National cross country run two
yesrs ago. Tue starters will be Willie
Day. n. J.. A. c.; William NJ. Hunter,
N.- Ia~An n Enafn LinrfhAr~ Nj
J. A. c.: Tommy Connect, Holy Cross A.
a; T. Vogellus, S. A. A. c.; Andrew
Walsh, w. Oikeefe, A. j. Dunlap, Xavier
A.C.; G. G. Holiander, Pastime A. C.
Three bicycle contests are on the card.
There will be q team race between the
Garfield A. C.-Van Cleef, Edinger.
G'Hslloran and SDearin. and the Green
vile Wheelmen-koch, Livingston, Nc
lutyre and Kreiser. In the one mile
handicap twenty-five bike drivers will
ride. George w. Coffin will be at scratch.
It will be q stiff ride for him II he wins.
Fred Shafto of the Hudson County
Nheelmen is at tina S5 yards marx.
Lohrnan n Thomson of the 6. w. are
in at 80 yards and ITO yards respectively.
Fourteen will start in the two mile race.
Coffin will go she entire distance. Shafto
of the Hudson County Wheslmen has AS
yards start. Two football games will be
played. The Barry A. A.'s Team of this
city will meet the GarrIowens OF New
YORK in a championship game under
Gaelic A. A. rules. This other match is
between teams OF the Volunteer A. c.
aud Dakota a. c. A baseball game Will
bling together the nines of the New Jer-
sey A. G.. and the Westfeld A. c. In adj
ditiop to this long list of contests, Prof
Maltby will give an exhibition of fancy
trick bicycle riding.
7. NJ. c. A. FIELD DAY.
The athletes of the Jersey City and the
Greenvills Y. N. c. -. will unite on
Labor Day and have u held day on the
association grounds foot of Cnapsl ave-
nue.. They have arranged an excellent
programme aud Will have 8 merry Tins.
The events are handicaps. The events
and entries are appended
100 yard dash-G. r. Petit n R. M.
Eichman, scatcn: David l.. Gurus, 8
yards; Edmund l. WEIGH, 5; Charles T.
Esher. 5; VIM. Fleet, 3; G. W. Parks, 5
yards.
tH9lr mile run-Geo. Achesen, scratch;
Fred. Col Ter, Robert w. Eichmann and