The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-02

The Enrich Geiseche Association will
hold another set Of members games at
Secaucus next month, The association
has already held two series and this one
will be the final. The teams that con-
tested the tug of war at the tive previous
sets divided the honors, each winning a
contest. The deciding trial will be a
special feature of the day.
The Catholic Club has just finished q
series of three games and will start an
other series on Sunday, September II, at
Baldwin Park. Nelson Buck was the
winner of the Captains prize at the last
series, and hopes to secure first place
at the coming series. All the track and
field events recognized by the A. A. u.
will be contested.
On Labor Day there will be many in
teresting athletic meets in this vicinity.
Among the leading events on that day
no series of games have received more
attention or are likely to be witnessed by
better audiences than those games which
have been arranged by the Holy Name
Society of the Church of st. Paul of the
Cross, at the race track, Gutenberg. The
meet, which has been sanctioned by the
A. A. u. and the L. A. W., has been re-
ceiving the attention of lovers of ath-
letics for the past month, and the interest
manifested in the several contests has all
ready reached attractive proportions.
The cream of the athletic talent in the
vicinity of Jersey City are to compete,
and are all ready for the fray, and it is
believed that the games will be the most
successful ever held in Hudson county
The track has been carefully gone over,
and is now in an avna1lopf condition T1ba
Committee of Arrangements nave made
ample provision to handle the vast num-
Der of people who will attend. The
grand stand, from which a full view of
the track may be had, will be thrown
oren to all, and every convenience will be
sought after to make the day pass pleas
ant!y Tor those who attend. There will
be dancing from one O'Clock in the after
News of the Gridiron.
The indications are that Seton Hall
College will have a crack football eleven
this season.
The Ariel Athletic Association, of New
ark, has decided to enter a team on the
football field of 1897. 1t is expected to
compete successfully with any team in
New Jersey or New York. Arthur Wig
more has been elected Captain, and
Maurice Lindeburg, Manager. Address
No. so Garsi1e street, Newark, N. J.
Arrangements have already been COM
menced to have a good football eleven at
the South Orange Field Club for the COM
ing season. 1t is probable that the use of
the Orange RIDING and Driving Clubs
house will be secured for one night each
week during the season for practice, and
arrangements will also be made so that
the Orange Riding and Driving Clubs
practice with the Field Club boys, thereby
affording a good opportunity to both
elevens to keep in shape. Harold Byron
will manage the Field Club eleven and
Bernard Schneider will be the captain.
shoot at Sea Girt.
Major Henry Lehman and Captain e.
Fischer, of Hoboken, will represent the
Fourth Regiment at the shoot of the New
Jersey Rifle Association, with Captain A.
H. Graft, Captain Charles H. Springfield,
Lieutenant Christie and Bugler Mccain.
AL these nave been shooting for years
and Zach has gained sharpshooter's
honors. 1t is expected that they will
end with prizes signifying their position
is in the neighborhood of the top
notchers.
The teams they will find themselves
pitted against will include the Thirteenth
Infantry, Second New Jersey, Sixth New
Jersey, Engineers Corps, Washington,
Second Regiment, District OF Columbia
md q ri01IS others