The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-29
SEASON
WELL UNDER WAY
Amateur and Professional Events
on Program for
Week.
THE COLLEGE CREWS A-BOAT
THE COLLEGE CREWS A-8oAT

NEW YORK. April 2s.-The season of
field and track sports. amateur as we'll
as professional, for 1907 will be fairly
. we'll under way with the coming OF the
present week. All the larger colleges
booked to participate In the annual row.
Ing regatta are turning attention to the
conditioning of their crews, and the COM
ing of May track athletics will take on
new life. The baseball season of the
major leagues has progressed far enough
to permit the followers of this popular
sport to size up the chances OF their IA
vorites in the pennant races, and the
yachtsmen will break out their sails to
the early May breezes. Chief interest in
e-racing necessarily centres In the
metropolitan tracks, on which will be
run all the old established classics. with
prospects of an unusually large number
OF contestants for the rich prizes
The college crews are all a-boat now,
working hard for the Poughkeepsie regat-
ia, to be held June 2sth. and subsequent
races. Reports from all training tables
say the oarsmen are rounding into form
nicely.
Yaie's green crew-there are only two
old men in the boat--is making vigorous
efforts to get into shape for the match
with the midshipmen at Annapolis next
Saturday Bouiton has been definitely
picked to stroke for the blue and the
sons OF Old Ell hope to wipe out the de-
Feat administered by the middies last
year.
Harvard and Dartmouth will meet in
field sports in the stadium at Cambridge
Saturday Much interest is eyinced in
the Negotiations now going on between
Harvard and Yale for an athletic meet
Ing on this side Of the Atlantic during
the summer with the Oxford and Cam
bridge Universities teams, and the hope
is everywhere expressed that the Eng
lishmen can be induced to come over.
Miss Annette Kellerman, the worlds
champion woman swimmer. will arrive In
New York during the week, and will
give exhibitions in various cities. II is
not improbable that race between the
australian woman and Miss Elaine
Golding, of Bath Beach, n. y. will be
arranged
the rules and conditions of the Van
derbilt automobile cup race on Long
Island. the blue ribbon event for MOTOR
lists, will be announced Nav 18th. The
race will take place this year two weeks
later than last season. The course may
De somewhat changed this year.
On English Turf.
The English turf will again see Richard
Croker's stable on the fa>ous tracks,
there this season. Croker has sent {.
string OF horses across the Irish Channel
with Orby. a grandson of Flying Fox,
who won the derby In 1899 at its head.
With this horse Mr.. Croker hopes to win
the much-coveted derby this year, but
turf followers cannot see that he has a
chance
Universal regret is experienced on the
continent that William x. Vanderbilt S
star performer, Maintenon. has gone
wrong, and has been relegated to the
stud. Much of the $4,000 won by the
Vanderbilt stable last year was brought
home by Ais fleet horse
William Duke. the Vanderbilt train
err was pointing Maintenon for the
Ascot gold cup, in which Mr.. Vander-
bilt had hoped to reverse the defca.
OF Maintenon by Spearmint in the
Grand PriX de Paris last year. Both
horses were entered for the Gold cup.
Young Jay Could it is expected, will
win the amateur court tennis cham
pionship now being contested in Lon
don. Fills playing thus far has shown
HIM to be in class by himself since
Eustace Miles decided not to defend
his title.
New Boxer Arrives.
A degret of International interest
arrival at san Francisco of the Aus
tralian champion heavyweight, MIL
| liam Squires. who comes to these
shores with the highest reputation as
q boxer of class, Americans have not
| forgotten the other great fighters who
came from tho Antipodes and made
their way against this country's best,
| and are inclinxl to take Slures as
| the only man IN sight capable Of CIV