Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-29
TRACK
SEASON OPENING
EVERY DEPARTMENT OF SPORT
PROVES ATTRACTIVE
New York's Interest In PuglIism Re-
vlved by Arrival of squires.
Preparing for Metropolis
tan Handicap
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 2s.-The season
Of field and track sports, amateur and
professional, for 1907, will be fairly well
under way with the coming of the pres
ent week. All the large colleges booked
to participate In the annual rowing re-
gatta are calling attention to the con-
dltioning of their crew, and with the
coming of May track athletics will take
on new life.
The baseball season OF the major
leagues has progresseC far enough to
permit the followers Of this popular
sport to size up the chances OF their
favorites in the pennant race and the
yachts will spread out their sails to
early May breezes. Interest in horse
racing centers in the metropolitan
tracks upon which will be run all the
old established races.
The college crews are all working
hard for the Poughkeepsie regatta. to
be held June 26, and subsequent races.
Yales green crew is making vigorous
efforts to get into shape for the match
with the midshipmen at Annapolis next
Saturday. Harvard and Dartmouth
will meet in field sports at Cambridge
Saturday.
Much interest Is evinced in the nego-
tiations now going on between Harvard
and Yale in an athletic meeting on this
side of the Atlantic during the sum-
mer with oxford and Cambridge uni
versity teams and the hope is every
where expressed that the Englishmen
can be induced to come over
Miss Annette Kellerman, tho worlds
champion woman swir mer, will arrive
in New York during the week and will
give exhibitions in various cities. 1t
is not improbable that o race between
tie Australian woman and Miss Ella
Line Golding Of Bath Beach, N. Y, will
be arranged.
The rules aid conditions Of the Van
derbilt automobile race on Long Is
land, the blue ribbon event for motor
lists, will be announced May 10.
The English turf will again see Rich
ard Crocker's stable on the famous
tracks this season. Croker has sent
string of horses across the Irish chan
mel with Orby, a grandson OF Flying
Fox, who won the Derby in 1853, at its
head. With this horse Mr.. Croker
hopes to land the much coveted Derby
this year.
Universal regret is expressed on the
continent that William K. Vanderbilt's
star performer, Maintenon, has gone
wrong and been relegated to the stud.
Much Of the $250,000 won by the van
derbilt stable last year was brought
home by this horse. William Duke, the
Vanderbilt trainer, was training Main
tenon for the Ascot gold cup in which
Mr.. Vanderbilt had hoped to reverse
the defeat of Maintenon by Spear Mint
in the Grand Prix de Paris last year.
Both horses were entered for the gold
cup.
Young Jay Gould may win the anna
teur court tenni- championship now be-
ing contested in London.
Much interc st HIS been aroused In
pugilism here since the arrival at San
Francisco of the Australian heavy
weight, William Squires.
The big stake event of the eastern
horse racing season will be the Metro
politan handicap, May 8, at Belmont
park. Twenty-seven horses, majority
of them good performers, are entered.
is best fought of by the
Handicapped who has allotted him 126
pounds, which is topheavy. The Picket
is 10 pounds better off, and Water Tight
has still one pound less to carry. Crap
pie, Pulsus, Brookd..le, Nymph, Kuroki,
Jacouin, Cressina and Zambesi are
among the entries.