The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-19
NEW JERSEYS TRACK TEAM.
1t should Play a Leading Part In the
NJ NIepffnu
A. A. .. Meeting.

A. n. W. N1eethuSs
Captain Sulzer of the New Jersey Ath-
letic Club track team has returned from
his vacation, and from now on will de-
vote his entire attention to the team pre-
pairing them for the coming championship
meeting of the Amateur Athletic Union
one week from Saturday. The regular
weekly club games Will be held on the
grounds at Bergen Point this afternoon.
The first race will be called at half-past
five. 1t is the intention of Captain Sui
ger to enter the following men in the
National championships:-Manvel, half
mile run; f. Beck, putting the shot;
Donovan, Liebgold and Tracer in the mile
walk; Eaton, the one mile run; Rogers,
the high hurdles and the broad jump;
Hamilton, the pole vault, and Cosgrove,
the low hurdles. The entries for the
championship events will close Saturday
with Secretary James e. Sullivan, at No.
241 Broadway. Word has been received
from the West that the team of Chicago
athletes will start for New York tomor-
row, and expect to arrive on Sunday. Ar
rangements nave been made for them to
finish their training next week on the
ground of the New York Athletic Club
at TraverS Island.
w. A. Robertson has been at work on
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four days with a staff of six men, and
he said yesterday that the track and
grounds would be in the finest possible
ords were not made in the 100 and go
yard races it would not be the fault of
the track.
Committee has been called for Monday
evening, August Is, at the Office of j. E.
Sullivan, to arrange the programme and
pass upon the entries. Great interest is
being taken in the tournament by menu
bers of the Stock Exchange who are New
York Athletic Club men. All these men
j. Wefers will have no trouble in dispos-
ing of j. H. Maybury. President White
ly of the New York Athletic Club has Sc
cured forty If the best seats o~btainable
for the Stock Exchange men, and they
will attend in a body.
The New Jersey A.. G. Carnival OF
sports.
The monster arrival of sports of the
New Jersey A, c., which will be held at
the club grounds Labor Day, September
s, is attracting a great deal of attention.
No doubt the entire team of Western ath-
letes, who are to compete at the A. A. U.
championships, will remain over in or
der to compete at these sports. The
most interesting part of the programme,
perhaps, will bf the four special scratch
events. The half-mile was put on es-
pecially to give H. Z. MARVEL, the school
boy runner, a chance to compete with
Thomas e. Burke, who vall not compete
in the A. A. U. championships in order to
be at his best when he meets Marvel on
September 6. Marvel is without doubt
one of the greatest half-milers of the
present day, and it is Burke's intention
to defeat him if possible. James Sars-
field Mitchell, holder of the worlds record
for throwing the 56-lb. weight for height,
which he made at the New Jersey A. c.
grounds, will compel in the scratch
haminer-throwing contest and meet all
of Americas amateur throwers. Throw
ing the 56-lb. weight for height is a COM
paratively new game. Mitchell is cham
pion at the game and at present holds the
plenty of opponents in this contest, as. all
OF the heavy men in this locality. are en-,
| scratch race will bring out all the crack
sprinters of thesyear, the bright particu-
lar star of which viii be Berry j:
Wefers. who will try for q record around
a turn. The open handicap events are
as folloWs:-
100 yards run, 400 yards run, $50 yards
run, go yards hurdle,t mile run,sl mile
The scratch events are the pole vault,
$50 yards run throwing the l6-pound
hammer, throwing the 56-lb. weight for
height, 800 yards run.
There will also be a one mile and a
two mile bicycle race and a 440 yards med
with a pail of water on his head, hop 100
yards, walk LOO yards, and run over hur-
dies 100 yards Is hurdles, 8 feet 6 inches
high).
Entries close with james f.. Sullivan,
fsNo. al Broadway, New York, where entry
blanks and further Information can be
procured.
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