The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-16

Tonight at Baldwin Park the postponed
festival of the Hudson County Athletic
Association will be held. 1t has not
diminished any in interest because of the
inability of the management to pull off
the event as originally scheduled last
Monday night because of the rain. The
programme, which contains several inter-
esting features, has been carefully ar
ranged a large crowd will be on hand
TO witness it. The Dauntless Social Club
and the Welsh Association are working
hard and are both confident of winning
the handsome silk amer to be given to
the club having the largest number of
votes. The spelling match for the in
ter-State championship will have Charles
Lickers and Kit Murphy of this city, and
Liz Wilson, Chuck Connors' partner, and
Biff Wheeler of New York for contest
ants. The winners will receive prizes in
gold. A championship cake walk, in
which contestants will be white couples,
will take place, while wheelmen will find
pleasure in the exhibition of trick riding
by Leroy See, the champion boy rider of
America.
: George Boland of Company K, who will
represent the Fourth Regiment in the in
door military competitions during the
coming season, has begun training and
expects to make fast time in the sprints.
His distances will be quarter and half
mile events.
There is interest among athletes in the
dual meeting between the Chicago and
New York Athletic Clubs to be held on
October %. The Chicago team of ath-
letes has gone into training in charge of
Fred Stone. The team will be and their
events as follows:-Maybury so yards, $50
yards and 440 yards; Rush, 50, $50 and 440
yards; Townsend, 440 and relay race;
Richards, high and low hurdles; Jackson,
440 and relay race; Kinder, so yards and
relay race; Henneman, weights and dis
Gus; Kraenzlein, high and low hurdles;
Ewry, standing high and broad jumps;
Barrett. half mile and relay race.
The Catholic Club will hold its ath-
letic competition at Baldwin Park on
Sunday. The events will be: 100 yards
hammer throw.
The Athletic Committee of the New Jer-
sey A. c. has made arrangements to hold
a monster carnival of sports in Madison
Square Garden, New York, on Friday and
Saturday evenings, December II and IS. It
is the intention Of the committee to make
this carnival one that will long be remem-
bered. The idea now is to have the trial
heats of the important races on Friday
evening. Several special match races will
be added to the programme One compe-
tition that will attract considerable atten-
ton will be the dumb bell lifting by the
strong men in this section. This will
give all the strong men an opportunity
TO compete.
The Nianfics' Lantern Parade To-
night.
The wheelmen are interested in the
lantern parade that will take place in this
city this evening, under the direction of
the Mantle Wheelmen. assisted by the
North Hudson County Gyclers, who will
be received by the Nantes at Glenwood
avenue and the Boulevard at s o'clock and
escorted down town, over Mercer street
bridge to varick street. thence to Coles
street, 10 Eighth and around Hamilton
Park, returning over the same route to
Third street, to Henderson. to Fourth and
thence to the clubhouse for refreshments.
Remounting the wheelnen will ride
through Cole varick streets. to Mer-
Ger, to Grove, making a circuit of the
City HALL. When the route will con-
tinue back to the boulevard, to Green
vile, where the wheelmen will rave a
dance at Sehuetzen Park. Residents along
the line are requested to. decorate their
homes by the Niantics. There will be
over 200 riders in line.
Checker Tournament.
Interest in the checker tournament at
the Y. M. c. A. rooms, No. $40 Central
avenue, seems to have tagged, probably
owing to the repeated successes of one of
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ~Ralph-who has
won twelve straight games. not a single
defeat being scored against him. The
record TO date stands: Ralph, won II; J..
Meister, won 4. lost b Alex. McGlashan,
Jr., lost 8. Joseph Mast, won /, lost 2:
Isis1aG- 1last- % Rinrhals lost q