The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-02
BANNER DAY OF THE YEAR FOR MANY SPORTS Labor Day Games of Endurance and Skill to Take Place
 Everywhere. TENNIS, YACHTING, TRACK National Championship Meet at the Jamestown Ex-
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TENNIS, YACHTING, TRACK

Throughout the length and breadth of the country to-day, even in towns and villages large enough to marshal only mere handful of enthusiasts, games of endurance and skill of all kinds will be held, for Labor day is the banner day of the year for sports. The most important of these will be: The tri- state tennis championships at Cincln- nati, the Rhode Island state champion ship at Providence and the conclusion of the international mixed doubles at Niagara on the Lake; in yachting the annual regatta of the Larchmont Yacht club, and the Atlantic Yacht clubs race for the Lipton cup; in rowing, the mId- dle states regatta on the Harlem and the New England regatta at Boston; polo tournaments at Buffalo and Sea bright, N, J.; twenty-five mile handicap race on the Coney Island bicycle path, and automobile races for all classes over the Readville, Mass, track.
 Labor and Professional Sports.
 In professional sports there will be double header baseball games in all the leagues; running horses racing at Sheepshead Bay and Montreal; trotting and pacing events at Hartford, Conn.,, where the grand circuit opens and at Rochester and Orangeburg, N. Y. and prize fights between Joe Thomas and Young aKitchel at Colma, Gala; young Peter Jackson and Morgan Will Hams at Goldfield, Nev. and Tommy Sullivan and Billy Papke at Lawrence Mass.
 National Championship Meet.
 The event of the week in amateur athletics will be the national cham pionship meet at the Jamestown ex- position Friday and Saturday in which tried men from all parts of the coun, try are entered. The contests will take on an international aspect from the fact that two Irishmen have crossed the ocean to compete. They are Con" Leahy, who won the high jump in the Olympia games at Athens last year, and Dennis Murray once the cham pion sprinter of Ireland, who will try for the all-around championship, San Francisco will have a strong represene- tation to try for honors against the athletes of the east and the middle west. Ralph Rose, the giant weight hurler, after his two years retirement, is expected to come back to the games and give champion Wesley Coe of Boston, hard fight. The Californians will put their trust in Al Plaw against John Flanagan and Matt McGrath with the hammer and in Charles Parson, who did 4-5 seconds and beat Archie Hahn two years ago, in the hundred vars dash, Dan Kelly, of Oregon, is another westerner who may make the customers hustle He is the man who did the sprint in 3-5 seconds at the Northwestern Championships last year. Practically the same team of the Irish SAltlCl lOdl CluU llldJ Qel6dleQ LlS N6W York Athletic clubs best men two weeks ago at Travers Island, will com- pete. Taken altogether, with the prem> fer athletes of the country taking part the games at Jamestown should devel- op some wonderful performances.
 TWENTY -FOUR HOUR AUTO RAGE
 A twenty-four hour automobile race, similar to the one held recently at Brighton Beach, will be run over the old Morris Park race course beginning next Friday, and during this contest a twenty-five mile race for amateurs will be run This latter event is attracting a great deal of attention and a number of entries already have been received. It is hoped that the result will be to give impetus to the agitation that has been going on recently for an amateur class" at automobile meets.