The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-17
BOOM In ATHLETICS
The Coming Season Will Be
a Busy One Despite the
Popularity of the
Bicycle.
NEW JERSEY A. C.,s CARNIVAL
Blue Front A. {. to Hold Another
T-ournament-Turn of the
Wheel.

Although the coming season promises
to be the most successful in the his
tory of bicycle racing, amateur athletics
will, if present indications count for any
thing, not be one whit less successful.
The bicycle racing cranks who have every
spring for the past few years predicted
that amateur athletics would receive a
death blow from the bicycle, Will hnd
his season that in their predictions
they are AWAY off" With such staunch
and active clubs as the New Jersey A.
c., New York A. c.. and Pastime A. c.
in the field there is but little danger
tina the ~tfme-honored sport fostered by
these organizations will take a BACK
seat. The athletic clubs have not been
slow to recognize the increasing popu-
larity of bicycle racing and have not
a~ntagonized the sport, but. on the con-
trary, ha-veaeneouraged it. AS a result
few athletic meetings are held nowadays
without one or mare bicycle races on
the programme:
The New Jersey A. c, has encouraged
bicycle racing perhaps more than any
other athletic club in this vicinity, and
it has been rewarded with large attend
ances at all its athletic meets. In its
ranks the club has one of the fastest
C41Q ~ &iAo4 h0D - AANN
East, Walter Roome of this city, WIKI
holds the indoor worlds records for the
3. 4 and 5 miles. Mr.. James E.. Sulli-
van is trying hard to induce c.. c. Nor
gan of the Springfield Bicycle Club to
Join his club. If he succeeds, Morgan
will be placed in charge of the cycling
department. Mr.. Morgan has a wide
acquaintance among cyclists, and he Will
be d decided acquisition to the popular
Bergen Point organization. The club
win open the athletic season with a
grand carnival of sports at the Bergen
) Point grounds on Decoration Day, and the
programme will be Almost attractive one.
The carnival will pen at noon with a
game of Association football, between
the C%entreviHe A. C. of Bayonne, one of
the strongest teams in America, and the
Brooklyn Wanderers. At one O'Clock
the much-talked of game of lacrosse be-
tween the Stevens Institute champion
team and the Crescent A. c. team Will
be played. This game will be the contest
ct the year. The athletic events, which
win m at two O'Clock. will be as
= Seventy-fve yard run. handicap, on
over ten hurdles 3 #. s in, handicap.
, Three hundred yards run, handicap.
! -Four hundred and forty yards run,
novice.
One mile walk, handicap.
One mile run, special, scratch. Tommy
eqanneff is the bgaS worlds =cbha mr.
One mile run, handicap
Barrel race, rs yards, scratch, through
,,Irst barrel. Is yards. -
q The prizes for the aboye events VIII
pc the New Jersey A; G; die meaals,
10 third in ach event.
l The one and two mile handicap bicycle
feature will be the Invitation, college
am RAGS. Distance of one. mile, each
funneT g run q quartet rers mile ts.I In r me
and one mile record run, the first prize
will be a gold filed, open face, one-ffth
ss sopn and fly hack, good time Keeper as
well. Nickel, open face, minute register
stop. watch to second. Silver medals TO
The CLOSING event of the carnival win
be a match game of baseball between the
n. ]. A.. C.Ls crack nine and the Bay
The second annual joint athletic. meet
ing football match and reception Of Com
and the Pastfme Athletic Club will be
held at the armory, Sixtyssecond street
end G SR nay venue nna.n on T syenfns event event
viii be a game of Rugby football be-
tween Company Is team and the II: n;
run, handicap; 40 yards run, handicap;
scratch, novice, for those who have never
won a prize in a run; two mile bicycle
s0 wards walk, scratch, novice, for those
Who have never won a prize in a walk;
pne mile bicycle Safety, novice, scratch.
orrsze in a bicycle competition. Entries
close Friday, April e, 1925. with 4; Wert
armory. and with A. J. Murberg. at the
Pastime Athletic Club, Sixty-sixth street
and East River. The prizes will be gold
medal to first and silver medal to second
IN each event.