The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-03

JERSEYS SUCCESS.
The Carnival at Madison
Square Garden Was the
Finest Ever Held
There.
Yesterdays HANDBALL MATCH
Football for charity-Bowling
Games on the Alleys-Dorr-
Ter Shot Well.

In Madison Square Garden Saturday
night the much-heralded carnival of
sports OF the New Jersey Athletic Club
was decided. An attractive card, con-
tanning the names of some of the best
known amateur performers of the day,
was furnished. The attendance was
good. about 1000 persons being present.
1t was an eminently respectable crowd.
though inclined to be decidedly noisy at
times, but that is the way of athletic
crowds
The evenings sport AFFORDED the spec
tators plenty of chances to enthuse and
plenty of amusement in addition. The
novice contests brought together hordes
of aspiring youths, who fell and jostled
and paved the air, n got around as
best they knew. As usual at athletic
meets there was a long and formidable
list of officials.
The first event on the card was a
ffty-yard handicap run. 1t. drew out a
big field of s~lim-shanked youths. among
whom B. ]. Wefers, the worlds cham
pion. was most favored to win. Wefers
could get only second place in his first
heat, and in the trial heat for second
men, although he succeeded in piowing
his way through a lot of handicap men
he could not quite make it. In the final
heat, however, the champion came
through beautifully and captured the
race in fine style, a result which was
highly pleasing to the crowd.
There was a regular outpouring of bud-
ding athletes for the half-mile novice
run. They were of all sizes, shapes and
appearances. The noise they made as
they scurried around the wooden floor
was like unto that of a dozen herds of
~stampeded cattle. Most of the contest
ants were in distress before they had
gone two-thirds of the journey, and they
were strung out the whole length of the
Garden. F.. Boardnlan, a trim-built Yale
student, used some judgment in his run
ming and turned up an easy winner.
Sam Liebgold ave a pretty exhibition
of his pedestrian powers in the mile
walk, which he won from scratch, after
conceding liberal handicaps. M. H. Dono-
van, a chunky young chap, gave the
citing.
Champion wefers could not get through
throW aeiG out II Of fnf his z2 stgids on run one ne Of T tas
turns. and finished in The ruck.
The summaries:
J. Wefers, Georgetown College scratch;
second E +. giseRDurn. 7. Of F. g FEES,
gs;,dsis .s Ssls; EyiiMis sss.g Fss S5@ W. .
s s4ien z. g. se f6irdi T f MesRey i New west
22o-Yard Hurdle Race. Handieap.-First
n heat y Won r.. bg & & & e. w NaTs ! 8 NS M to yep-
n. J. A. G, 6 YARDS, thfrd. Time-2S 40
sesGhds VAIL Second e n 3 r6 seat w93 By J; I: F NIn
time A. {. 8 yards. third. ,TimsIao IS
s cohenS seco P5nal T aaa : s09 e p seconds M5asaip'
440 Ykrd Noyice.Won by J. F. Holland.
= and NJ e H Al M; ca5 pyjs, ssrs ssbo CITY. tb Sec
go Yard Run. Handicap-Won by Will
I Lam isoh Bay Riids N. &C 4 s q i y aa5as'; se n; +:
r. Sanford. N. j. A. c. e YARDS. third.
Time.25 Is seconds %s1p u.na,oaa w.
Samuel Liebgold, Pastime A.. (scratch);
NJ. H. Donovan. Glen Falls A. C. GO
secondsl second; John A. Ryer. Yonkers
Two-Mile Steeplechase-Won by G.. w.
Orion, University of Pennsylvania; j. w.
Rumpf. St. George A. G., second. Time
44oaYard Run. Handicap.-won by G. W.
Buck, .Hoboken. q yards; second; J.. M.
Gallagher. Georgetown College 90 YARDS,
by S. A. w. Baltizzi, N. Y. A. C. (319
inches), 5 it. 9 y in; j. T. Fitzgerald,
National A. c.. (ek inches), 5 #. 6s in,
second: Thomas Dixon, St. George A. c.,
Ts inches), 5ft. 5 in, third.
One Mile Run, HandicapEWon by E.
w. Bedford, Barnard School Q8a YARDS,
w. T.. Laing, Princeton, n. ]. f35 yards),
second; NJ. Regain, New West Side A. c..
Q30 YARDS, third. Time-m. 29s.
One Mile Bicycle Race, Handicap
Won by A. Sayer, Greenpoint Wneelmen
(5 yards); W. A Barbeau, Riverside
Wheelmen (seratch), second; w. H.
owen, Greenwich Wheelmen (scrateh),
third. Time I'm. 46 Ass.
Ten-Mile Race-Won by Sam T. Freeth,
Sylvan Harriers; H. Gray, ST. George A.
G., second; NJ. J. Mccarthy, Jr.. Irish
National A. c., third. Time-5Sm. 26s.
Bean, the Boston crack, quit after going
four miles and a half, and Connect
dropped out after going five miles. Freeth
was protested.