The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-24
INTERCOLLEGIATE REGATTA
 AT P0UCHKEEPSIE Wright and Behr, American Representatives in Eng lands Tennis Games.
 A 72-MILE RACE. Two Great Stake Races at Sheepshead for Cash
 Prizes of $25, 900.
A 72-MILE RACE.

The week just beginning will bring an unusually large number of events of wide interest in athletic circles, par ticularly to the colleges. The chief of these are the great intercollegiate re- gatta on the Hudson river at Pough- keepsie on Wednesday,, and the Yale- Harvard contest for aquatic supremacy on the Thames on Thursday. Tn Eng land Americas representatives will meet England's lawn tennis experts at Wimbledon on Monday and on Tues day play will begin at Wissahickon, Pa., in the women's national tennis championships for this country
 English Tennis Championship.
 The play at Wimbledon, Eng, begin ming tomorrow promises to be notable in spite of the fact that Englands s premier players, the Doherty brothers, will not compete. The United States Lawn Tennis association has sent over Beals c. Wright and Karl H. Behr to try to bring back the Dwight F. Da- wis cup which the Dohertys carried away several years ago and which no tennis team yet sent abroad has been able to regain. A. F. Wilding, the British champion in singles and Nor man E. Brooks, the Australian, are the men on whom the Briton lay their greatest hopes to retain the trophy, but even should the Americans be suc- cessful In defending them, there are other skilful wielders of the racquet, like R. J. McNair, L. H. Escombe and A. E. Beamish.
 Women's Championship.
 Miss May Sutton, of Pasadena, Cal, will have her old foes, Miss Eastlake Smith and Mrs. l.. Chambers, both of whom she has defeated, and Miss Low ther and Miss A. N. G. Greene, to fight for the women's championships at Wimbledon.
 Cruising Race of seventy-two Miles.
 The chief event in the yachting world this week will be the cruising race of 72 miles of the Indian Harbor Yacht club. starting off Greenwich, Conn.,, Tuesday and finishing off the Bartlett Reef light vessel. The race is an open one, all classes down to 30 footers being eligible Among the en- trants are the Invader the Constella- ton, the Seneca, the Endymion, the Dervish, which won the recent race to Bermuda; the Vencedor and the Cram pus. Saturday the motor boats will have an inning in twenty and thirty mile races on the Hudson.
 Saturday promises to be a red let- ter day in the years turf history. On that day, at Sheepshead Bay, two great stake races will be run, the Great Trial for -year-olds, and the Coney Is- land Jockey club stakes, for three-year- olds. The guaranteed cash value of each is $25,oOO.
 In each race the best horses In train- ing will face the starter. The two- event will practically deter nine the best horse of this division. James R. Keene's Colin doubtless will be the favorite, but to win the race he will have to beat such good animals IS Cohort, Monopolist, Harcourt, Cha oultepec, Wave Crest, Ben Fleet, King James, King Cobalt, Lady Winifred, Firestone and Beaucoup
 For the other purse the Koene stable will send out the favorite-a horse that S believed by all turf followers to hold he race safe-Peter Pan. He meets Faust Montgomery, the runner-up in he suburban; salvidere, last years champion two-year-old; Charles Ed ward, George s. Davis, Electioneer, Alteration, Hickory, McCarter, Yankee 4irl, Arctic, Frank Gill, Tony Faust md other good horses. 2