Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-04-25
GREAT YEAR IN SPORT
AMERICAN ATHlgTES AFTER EVERY
 THING IN SIGHT ABROAD.

Representatives of Many sports Hope to
 Earn Glory Across the seas taie VIII
 To Seen at Henley The rInearn win
 Again Race Tor Glory and Prizes.
 Tbc pres it yeafwillh remarkable ono in the history af athletic sports be- cause of the number of athletes and sportsmca who win sack honor nn the other side Of he water There has ney- CT been q yenr when Americans havo sccmcdto have such an excellent chaneo of covering themselves with glory Col- lcctively, the mnol sports who propose to invade Europe With brawn and brains would make quite respectable army They go te seek fame at tho faee course, in tl4c prizo ring, on tie bicycle path, on the athletic field, on the river mld on the open seas.
 International competition received q boom last year from tho visit of tho Cornell crew to England and the Lon don and Cambridge athletes to New York The Cornell boye failed to get much glory, but the New Workers just wiped the eurth with the Briiishers in the athletic games of all sorts, and this more than evoned things mp America ia represented by many worlds cham pions She has no peer at any kind of q game, and there is no reason to fear that the athletes who will cross the wa ter this year will not properly represent her.
 Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the invasion will be seen on the turf. Americans will be represented by home bred horses in nearly every event of im- portancc on the English race courses M6ntauk, the erncl 8-year=old, owned ny Mir. Richard Gif;alser is 2 prominent candidate for tho English Derby. Roy el santa Anita, winner of the American Derby in 1893; Sir Excess and Rey dol Careres all well known and high class performers in this country. will also represent EIr, Croker The racing colors of August Belmont, Pierre Lorillard, Duke X Wishard and Charles Littlclield will also be seon on the English turf Ramapo, winner of the Suburban in 1891, is in pnlze & Wishard s string.
 Among tho pugilistie stars who will visit England are Kid LavigHe, ac- lnowledgcd champion lightweight of America; Bob IitaSimmons, champion middleweight of the world; Steve O'Domell, Johnny Lavack and many other clever ones Kid Lavigne meets Dick Burge, who is regarded in England |, Ii to fight Owen Sullivan.
 The defeat of Cornell last year has made American colleges keen to avenge the unfortunate Ithaeans. Yale is re- garded as the peer of all the others in rowing and will send crew to Henley, and Americans will root hard to see the famous blue sealled to victory.
 Many prominent professional bicycle riders including John s. Johnson, Ray Mcdonald and George Banker, will tour through England, France and Germany in search of glory and prizes
 Teams from the Boston Athletic asso citation and Princeton college are repre- sented in the great Olympian games ai Athens.
 On the blue water America will he represented principally by the yacht Niagara, owned by Howard Gould Niagara won many races last year, and there are still victories in store for her
 American trotters will be seen in Franco and Germany, large oonsigu ments of rare bred stock having been shipped during the winter In short, A s4 all branches of sport in Europe this year, and with an even break and no fayors Uncle Sam's athletes will more than hold their own, John Bull had better lay in good stock of excuses. He may need them before the sporting season -,,sel is> E,--'