New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-25
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LONG BRANCH
Baseball To Be a Regular Feat
ure-SteepIechaSe This Week.

Long Branch, y. j.. June 2A-While op-
.,ations on the new $4,000 concrete pier
now built 500 feet 10 sea. are being pushed
% completion at the rate Of nearly twenty
Zee. day. and the putting Of finishing
touches on the big ocean front amusement
mark opposite are the centre OF interest
N Long Branch just now. preparations for
ether Innovations that will make this the
eayest season in the famous Old resorts
history are in full swing.
Aviation contests in connection with the
big n,id-August carnival. under the direc-
non OF Harry c. Rehm, the new chairman,
are tentatively planned. Cottagers are en-
Unused too. over the opening to-day Of
the pretty horse show grounds in the Hoi-
Iyvood Park section Of the city as fash
,onshle baseball resort three DAYS in every
week except horse show week. Yacht ana
motor boat races on the river are sched-
pled. TOO. and the golf season is well under
way.
Free concerts were begun two weeks ago
IN Ocean Park. three weeks earlier than
ever before. and many of the attractions
there are already catering to the public,
although the formal opening does not take
place for six days more. The mile scenic
week 20. and IS proving a biz drawing
card Next SATURDAY the ROYAL Venetian
Band begins an all-summer engagement.
This music will be free. as will ether SEN
sational features. the first Of which will
h a daring slide for life OF a young woman
down 4 spiral steel tower as she stands on
e ball.
Coragers all along the coast are much
..,.a 81 IN .
held at the Elkwooc Park track here next
Saturday and the following Wednesday,.
There will be six contests each day. and
Tire rich prizes have brought out e full field
Of the best entries. The races Will be at
FIVE and seven furlongs. one mile, two and
half. three and three and half miles.
Both gentlemen riders and professionals
Will ride The cash prizes aggregate $500.
The officers OF the new steeplechase as
ISOLATION include some OF the most promi-
nent summer residents. Among them are
Walter Lewisohn, president; William 3.
Anderson treasurer. honorary stewards
Colonel William Barbour. J. A. Haskell
r J. Collier and T. y. McCarter; stew
ards. " : Fanshawe Charles Pfzer. II. :.
Pase and Henry " Bull: judges, Alser-
non Daingerheld and H. A. Buck, and dl-
rectors. Louis j. Well. Joseph J. Donohue'
II. jefferson Seligman. Morton l..
scbvartz. Walter Lewisohn. William B.
Anderson. Harry Content. Peter Hauck'
r Guggenheim. Louis V Bell Charles
D. Halsey. A. Charles Schwartz. Frederick
Lewisohn. Harry :. Page, William ;. ran
shave and William II. T. HUM.
A great fireworks display on the ocean
front Will end the Fourth Of July holiday
festivities In fact. there viii be TWO olS-
plays. the first being scheduled Tor 0S'u'
DAY night.
Tie coronation will affect the social sea-
son here very little ii is believed. a mum
Ter Of fashionable families have LETT tleH
summer homes TO sail. but in almost every
Instance they Will be absent only SHOT
tine. Nh and Mrs W. CampbeH C!aIA' -
Newark. will make the record stay A''
trevity on the other side-one OF Only 4oN'
days ,.,.-,.
Cottage renting continues Drlsh' a4'"o"7''
the hulk Of summer residents are areaoS
occupying their shore homes. among PROM
inent people already al their summer hoii''
IN the city and suburbs are the lOilO"Ii7
and their families: Former Sena OTIS 70
ward Murphy and James SMITH IT, A.
thonv 7 Drexel. Arthur Syrington' GeoIs7
II. Prentiss. J. 3. and l. O. Blooihil' su''e'
". Maltby. 7. 3. Cavity. A {. Goroon'
l. r. Hammerslough. DR.. { l" Hehrlqu l'
P. Mcdonald. c. J. Housmsn' Henry sens
man. Peter Hauck, Adrian Riker' l. y,
Brokaw. c. :. Sheppard and Georse D.
Hurd.
A fashionable crowd Vas in attehuanCe
to-day at the opening Of the morse siio"
grounds as a baseball park. The cHalHpioi
semi-professional Ridgewood team Is iep
resenting this city. Lindemann pitcnAns
and will meet the big league teams 81, va
their days of. The Giants are anhol''e 80
for July 10. The Sunday games are
pected 20 be specially big attraction