The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-29
OUTDOOR PASTIMES
Grand Programme for the
Opening Events on
Field, Track and
Stream.
CATHOLIC CLUBS BoWLERs.
Record and Averages in the Team
Smoker
Bowlers' Windup.

The season for outdoor sports will begin
tomorrow and it will be an exceedingly
lively and interesting day in this city. The
athletic clubs will have outings orgames,
the yacht clubs viii have excursions or rae
ing, the lawn tennis clubs win spend the day
on their courts and everything in the shape
of a baseball diamond win be occupied.
Marksmen at trap and target viii practice
or nave contests, n the wheelmen will
have runs but their Mecca will be the
Irvington-Milburn course. where the
twenty-five mile road race, the important
opening event, viii be decided. A clear sky
is all that is needed to make 1t q gala day
for outdoor patimes.
The Cable Athletic Club will nave open
games and a picnic at Caledonian Park. The
entries will not close until the races are
called and a competent Handicapped will be
present to arrange the allowances. The
events will be;-1W yards dash. 40 yards,
$50 wards, and one mile and three mile runs
and one mile walk. The contestants will
be-
$50 yards r~un-Roderick Dugan, Barry A.
A.; M. Moran, S.A.A.C; William Glossy,
S.AA.C., and Martin Wehole, W.S.A.C.
One mile run-A. Laney, w. S. A. c.:
George Lewis, S. A. A. c.; A. Ceissey, S.
A. A. c. aud J. Murphy, Alva A. c.
and dh Es' a @asp snns St. M Eeiasl Y Eyc aannf r.
Dorgan, Barry A. A; A. Daney, W. S. A.
c.; Geo. J. Bowman, Wayne A. c.: P.
Hogan, s. A. A c., and ]. Murphy, Alva
A. c.
Charles Liebgold, Alva A. c., will be at
scratch in the mile walk and NJ. Moran Of
Al. C--&- I'LL k.-r - rrxf.. <An -1rs1n frNrn -
fast heel and toe traveller from New York.
The big athletic event tomorrow will be
the carnival of the New Jersey A. c.. at
Bergen Point. A fine programme has been
arranged and three or four hundred athletes
will compete for the handsome prizes. The
feature will be the relay team race as the
feet runners of Harvard, Yale, Columbia
and the University Of Pennsylvania will
meet. After Saturdays defeat by Yale,
Trainer Lathrop Of Harvard College, has
decided not to take chances OF losing the
team race and as a result s. NJ. Merrill, the
the u mile race last Saturday, has decided
TO Be one of the four who win
carry the crimson on Decoration Day.
He viii have Vincent, Hollister and
Boyton on the team with him. Trainer
Murphy viii bring down four of his speed
lest runners, and q. of P. has decided that
E. s. Ramsdell. the hero of last Saturdays
games, will run on the team for the Phila-
delphias. RamsdeI is also scratch man in
the IS yards dash, and will, no doubt, be
able to equal the record of 7Ms., which has
been held for years by several speedy sprint
ers. He is In very good form and should
give a good account Of himself. The Cen
trail Railroad of New Jersey viii run special
trains at twelve NJ. and every half hour
thereafter. Many local athletes nave enter
ed. Stevens will play lacrosse against the
Crescent A. c., and Willie Day will make
an effort to break the three-mile record.
RACING sAILS ALoFT.
It viii be opening day for the local yacht
clubs. The Pavonia Y. c. will start the sea-
son with a race, and the doors Of its two
club houses will be thrown open. The New
York Bay Y. e. will have club regatta and
reception; the Oceanic Club will also have a
club regatta and a collation., and the Jersey
City Y. c.. will have its opening, and the
tars will test the racing gear of their boats.
The New Jersey Y. C. will be in the swim,
and as its boats are now in commission, their
speed will betested by a spin on the river or
down the bay
rooy THE
Every baseball club has at least one match
game for TOMORROW, and the majority have
contests for morning and afternoon. The
games of the Diocesan Union Baseball
League willd'begin. st. Peters and st.
Lucyss Lyceums of this city will cross bats.
The TAB. of Newark will play at Eliza
beth against the C.Y.M.A., and the mines of
the st. James, and ST. Johns Associations
viii meet at Newark. The Hoboken club
will open at the Cricket grounds, Hoboken,
with the Arlingtons of this city in the morn
ing, and the M~ontgomerys Of this city in the
afternoon. The Bergens will go to Harrison
in the morning, and will be at home In the
afternoon and meet the Pastimes of Man
haitian College on the Culver avenue
grounds. The Cootes Clubs team
will play the Paciics on the john
son venue grounds in the morning
and viii play at Harrison in the afternoon.
The Puritan A. C. will play at Williams
burg against the Williamsburg A. c., in the
afternoon and the Montgomerys will play
there in the morning. st. Michael's Liter
airy Unions team will meet the West Side
B. B. C. at the Inspections Grounds. The
New Jersey A. C.'s team will play at Roselle
against the New York Law Schools nine
ri OF a WHEEL.
The wheels of the cyclers in this city and
vicinity will be turned early tomorrow
morning toward the Irvington-Millburn
road. where the twenty-five mile handicap
race will be run. Nearly two hundred of
crack wheelers of New York, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania will compete for the sew
eral elegant prizes, This city and Hoboken
will be represented and the Hudson
county cyclists have been training faithfully
and expect to be among the leaders at the
finish. 1t is predicted that the record will
be broken. All the clubs in this city and
Hoboken have arranged club runs to zee the
exciting race and spur on the local riders
Several thousand wheels will be5 along the
course. The Hudson County Wheelmen,
after the race, viii go to Bloomfield and
have dinner. The Jersey City A-C cyclists
will run to Orange after the contest is over
and din there. The Palma boys viii take a
spin to the Orange Mountains after the race.
The Castle Point cyclers anticipate escorting
home at least one victor.
TENNIS OUR
The West Side Lawn Tennis Club win have
its formal opening IN its grounds at West
Side and Eye avenues. The West Bergen
Club, a new organization. expects to have
its courts in condition to play a few games.
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