The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-08-05
This week IN The
Realm OF sports
Saratoga Annual Summer
Racing Season Begins
To-day.
SCHUYLKILL REGATTA
Canadian Cup Series on
Lake Ontario Begins
Next Saturday.

Yachting is to have its inning during
~ this week, no less than three events in
N that branch of sports being on the
cards, namely, the races for the Can
+ ada cup, the annual cruise of the New
4 York Yacht club and races off Newport
and the English yachting events off
Cowes, Isle of Wight
Canada Cup Series.
Chief Of these yachting races is the
Canada cup series, an event Of interna-
tional interest which always brings the
keenest sort of rivalry and arouses in
tense interest in the outcome. The
contests will take place on Lake On
tario, off Port Charlotte, N. Y, and the
s first will be sailed next Saturday. The
United States, present holder of the
trophy, will be represented by the Sen
eca sailed by Addison G. Hanan, while
"a Canadas challenger, Cawthra Mel
locks 27-footer Adele, Will be handled
a by Canada's greatest small boat sailor,
"A Captain Aemilius Jarvis. who has won
his spurs in numerous contests. The
trial races and is considered worthy
opponent for the American Herreshoff
boat Both sides have carefully guard
ed the details of the boats that are to
sail for the trophy at Charlotte, so that
n accurate comparison is not possible,
but all their conspicuous features will
be evident within a few days when the
n two begin the work of final tuning up
over the course to be sailed.
New York Yacht Clubs Cruise.
Glen Cove, L. l., is the mecca toward
II which the prows of the yachts around
4 New York will be turned this week, for
81 thence on Thursday the annual cruise
\ OF the New York Yacht club will set
out. Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
expects it to be the most successful in
4 the history of the club and that among
300 vessels, of all classes, will take part.
u The feature of the cruise will be the
race off Newport for the Kings cup,
which is for sloops of over 5O-foot wa
4 ter line and schooners over 60-foot.
The Aston cup races also will attract a
long list Of contestants including the
* little fellows which, by time allowance,
have fine chances to win over the larg-
N er craft.
with English Yachtsmen.
At Cowes, Isle of Wight, the English
blue .ibbon yachting events always the
Fl mas It for foreign yachtsmen, will be
contested. This year no American
boats will be sailed there although
there will be present large number Of
steam vessels from this country, the
owners of which will vie with the for
eigners in entertaining.
Regatta on SchuyIxiIl.
The annual championship regatta Of
the National Association Of Amateur
Oarsmen, open to the world, will be
held on the national course, Schuylkill
river, Philadelphia, next Friday and
Saturday. There will be thirteen
events, including a special race for SEN
ior interclty eight scull crews, better
known as the Octopede race The other
events are intermediate, association
and championship senior SOULS; inter-
mediate and senior double SOULS; inter-
mediate and senior pair-oared shells;
intermediate, senior and International
four-oared shells and intermediate and
senior eight-oared shells.
The number of entries is expected to
be unusually large. Several crack Can
adam crews are expected to participate
and lend an international flavor to the
regatta Much interest centers in the
Octopede race between New York and
Philadelphia. "A fine contest is promis-
ed as the best eight scullers in each of
the cities are expected to make UP the
respective crews.
With the Automobiles.
An automobile carnival under the
auspices of the Atlantic City Automo-
bile club, the feature of which will be
three days of racing on the beach Of
that resort will be held Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday. Sixteen events are
scheduled. The greatest interest is in
the race of the flyers. 1t will be free
for all one mile dash. with a flying
start The record for the course is "a
seconds.
Thursday, the automobilists will be
attracted to the Brighton Beach race
track, where a twenty-four hours speed
contest will be started A large num-
her of cars have been entered.
Polo Tournament at Newport.
Newjort is to have the big polo
genes Of the week on next Saturday
and for two weeks thereafter there
will be matches each day between the
best teams in the country The games
at Narraganset between Philadelphia
New York and Boston players will be
concluded before the Newport series
series opens.
with the HOrsemen.
Although the better class of running
horses are now quartered at Saratoga,
where the summer season opens to-
morrow, the Metropolitan district is
rot to be without this form Of sport.
Racing will begin on the track of the
Empire City Club near Yonkers. next
Saturday Heretofore for many years
New York city has been without races
during August. While no big stake
features are on the program at Empire
City, the daily added money, amount
ing to $500 has been sufficient to at
tract the attention of many horse