The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-28
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ATHLETIC CARNIVAL
Great Preparations Are Be-
ing Made for the Big
Indoor Meeting.
REMARKABLE TEAM SCORES
nandball is Booming = Curriers'
Again in Season-Athletics
and Ring Notes.

The greatest indoor athletic carniva
mat has k place for a number Of
years will be that of the New Jersey A
c. at Madison Square Garden next Sat,
urday night. 1t comprises two nationa
championship races. namely. the two
mile steeplechase and the ten-mile run
The steeplechase will have as its mosi
prominent starters George Orion, the
champion runner: Coates, the young
University of Pennsylvania flyer, and
several other men who will undoubtedly
make a hot race for the Canadian. Firs,
of all in the ten-mile race is Tommy
Connect. the holder of the record: George
Orion. Andy Walsh, Charles H. Bean,
and several other men who are rated as
erackerjaeks in the athletic world. They
will run on a dirt track twenty feet
vide. ten laps to the mile. Connect, who
is now in Holy Gross College at Wor-
cester. has been training to break all
records, both indoor and outdoor, from
six to ten miles. Bean has been working
faithfully at his New England home,
and hopes to repeat his success of last
year. Trainer Bryan. of the University
of Pennsylvania. in his correspondence
with the N. J. A. c.. says that Orion is
as fit as a fiddle. and would ~undoubted-
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on the path. In addition to the above
events there will be nine handieaps and
three scratch competitions. The handi-
caps will be:-50-yards run, ~220-yards
run. 440-yards run, one-mile run, one
mile walk, 220-yards hurdle, standing
broad jumy, running high jump. one
mile bicycle race. under L. A. w. rules
and sanction.
The scratch events are an S80-yards
novice race, standing hop. step and
jump and the quarter-mile ~schoolboys'
novice run. The above events have
called out a fine entry list from the ath-
letes of the metropolitan district, and
in all the competitors will exceed $50.
They are thoroughly representative Of
this city. New York and Jersey City.
One of the most interesting races will
be the ouarter-mile novice race for the
schools of this city. New York and New
Jersey. The fastest runners of the best
schools will be among the competitors
and the race will. undoubtedly. be run
at a smart pace.
Perhaps the best list of entries has
been received for the one-mile handicap
run, and f. C. Carter. of the A. A. u.
and the NV York. A.. c., says he has
very rarely seen "a better list of men
than those entered for this race. An
other event that has its quota of entries
is the 50-yards handicap dash, This
race VIII be run on boards and the
three jumps will also be decided from a
board surface. An event of more than
usual interest will be the one-mile bicy>
Gle race for Glass A men. The leading
clubs of this vicinity are well represent
ed. On Friday next the French ball will
take place In the Garden and just as soon
as the last person has left the floor pre-
inside out. 80 that it will be ready for
the athletes. The work entsfed is enor-
nous and a large force will be required
to get things in order: Harry Cornish.
of the Chicago A. A.. has been engaged
TO see that the track and other proper
will be in perfect condition.
The winning athlet-s and the scnond
and third men will BIZ Presented with
gold. silver and bronze medals. except
for the regular A. A. Z. championship
events. in which die medals will go to
the successful candidates.
W. B. Curtis will referee the athletic
events. and Frank F. Prial the cycle
n 7. A G; Cyril Robinson, N, J A. e;
N. Y. A. C.: Robert stoll. N. Y. A. c.;
and s. s.. See. John Dixon. the most ca
pable clerk of the course in this section
of the country, will ~ofieiste in that capa-
city while the starter will be Alexander
A. Jordan, of the N. ". A.. c.. who fired
the pistol at last international
games.