New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-09
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.

All arransemen,s for the New-Jerscy Athletic
Club games Labor Day have been perfected by
the Atheti, Committee The regular programme
will be given. and in addition there will be foot
ball. baseball and cycle racing. The open athletic
follows: one-hundred yard run.
4iO-yard run. 22O-yard run and sS0-yard run: pole
vault and 22O-yard hurdle. also one-milc bicycle
race and a two-mile bicycle race A special half
mile run has been added 20 the programme IN which
H. T.. Marvel Of the New-Jersey Athletic Club. will
attempt to make II new worlds record for the dis
also been added II viii dlffer from the present
method of throwing. in that the contestants will
throw over crOssbar. This Is the old style OF
contest is 10 feet and Inches. held by O'Reagan.
James 5. Mitchell the present champion az the 90
pound. will attempt 10 make new record
The eighteenth annual games OF the Kerrymens
Association will be held at Suffers Park on next
Saturday afternoon beginning at 2 o'clock. Every
arrangement that should contribute to tho success
Of an athletic meeting has been attended to. and
the committee guarantees good days sport:
Three events 22O-yard run hop-step and jump and
members OF the organization and these VIII be the
m0 %e e swo Tr e"S champons Cornelius sheeSy
and j. Curtayne. will face each other.
The Ncw-York Volunteer Life Saving Corps will
hold this afternoon. at Manhattan Beach. the most
pretentious water carnival OF It's career. The pro-
gramme Is a long and varied one. There are out
side OF the exhibitions. spectacular and comic. to
be given by the life savers. and the attempt OF
Captain Davis Dalton 20 break the worlds record
for long distance swimming. six contests open 10
all amateurs The entry list for these contests Is
record breaking In Size. and there Is quality as
well as quantity. sThc contests are as follows:
one hundred yard swimming for men; half
mile race for men: 100 yards for women; 100 yards
for boys; diving contest. and tub race. The women
competitors promise to be numerous. Not only are
there six OF the best women swimmers around
New York Bay entered IN the l00yard contest con-
fired TO their sex, but four OF them have decided
to try conclusions with the men In the diving con-
test. The will begin promptly az 2. IN.
The principal officials are as follows: Referee.
and Thomas II. Ryan, Of the Manhattan Beach
cycle track starter Commodore Theodore Krom-
bach commanding Life Saving Division OF the
Borough Of Brooklyn. and timekeeper. r. Hunter.
Colonel Wesley H. Jones. the venerable president OF
the New York Volunteer Life Saving Corps. VIII
present the medals to the winners.
The match between Roa Heikes, the expert
wing shot and Frederick Gilbert. known as the
phantom Of Spirit Lake and the champion clay
bird shot OF the world Will be contested Mt Chicago
next week The match Will be FOR the r.. I. cup,
now held by Gilbert
The weekly smoker OF the Knickerbocker Ath-
letic Club will be held tomorrow night.
The playing schedule OF the Brooklyn Baseball
Club has been changed somewhat. dispatch from
Chicago 10 The Tribune last night stated that
Brooklyn would play Chicago at Washington Park.
In the latter CITY two games tomorrow and one
game Thursday. instead OF playing the same
club on August 10, ~ and o. as intended.