The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-29
SEASON OF SPORT
 AT VERY HEIGHT The Rarvard-Dartmouth Field
 Sports Saturday ENGLISH BOWERS COMING croker's Stable in England. squires Coming World Champion. Met
 ropoIitan Handicap May g.
 Gould's Ambition.
ENGLISH BOWERS COMING

| New York, April 2s-The season of field
 and track sports, amateur as well as pro-
 fessional. for 1907 is fairly under way at l the coming of the present week. The
 larger colleges booked to participate in
 the annual rowing regatta are turning at
 tention to the condition of their crews,
 and with the coming of May track ath-
 letics will take on new life The base
 ball season of the major leagues has pro gressed far enough to permit the fol- lowers of this sport to size up the
 chances of their favorites, and the yachts
 will break out their sails to early May
 breezes Interest in horse racing cen ters in the metropolitan tracks. The col lege crews are now 'aboat," working
 hard for the Poughkeepsie regatta to be
 held June 26, and subsequent races Yale's green crew is making vigorous efforts
 to get into shape for the match with the
 midshipmen at Annapolis next Saturday. The navy boat has but two men in it.
 English Rowers Invited. Harvard and Dartmouth will meet in
 field sports at Cambridge Saturday. Much interest Is evidenced in the nego- t.ations now going on between Harvard and Yale for an athletic meeting on this side of the Atlantic during the summer with the Oxford and Cambridge teams.
 and the hope Is everywhere expressed 1 that the Englshmen can be induced to come over.
 The English turf will again see Richard
 Crokers stable on the famous tracks this season. Croker has sent a string of horses across the Irish channel with Or l by, grandson of Flying Fox, who won the derby in 1899, at its head. With this horse MT. Croker hopes to land the much roveted derby this year.
 Universal regret is expressed on the continent that W. K. Vanderblts star performer Maintenon, has gone wrong and been relegated to the stud. Much of
 the $246,000 won by the Vanderbilt sta
 ble last year was brought home by this horse.
 Young Jay Gould, it is expected will
 win the amateur court tennis champion
 ship now being contested in London. squlres New Champion. Much interest has been aroused in pugilism since the arrival at San Fran cisco of the Australian heavyweight, Will liam Squires, who comes with the best reputation as a boxer of class. Ameri-
 cans have not forgotten the other great fighters who came from the antipodes and made their way against this countrys best and are inclined to Squires as the only man in sight capable of giving bat tie to Champion Jeffries. Squres must first show his worth. however, and as an earnest desire on his part to do so he has posted large forfeit at Los An geles to meet the winner of the O'Brien-
 Burns fight scheduled to take place in that city on May 8. Should he defeat the winner of that ma h the Australian will ask Champion Jeffries to give him battle and thus will occur real international ring contest
 Metropolitan Handicap.
 The next big stake event of the eastern horse racing season will be the Metropol- itan handicap, May g, at Belmont Park. Twenty-seven horses, majority of them good performers, are entered Account
 ant is best thought of by the handicap per, who has allotted him 126 pounds,
 which is top weight. The Picket is ten pounds better off and Water Tight has still one pound less to carry Grapple
 Pulsus. Brookdale Lymph. Kuroki, Cres- sina and zambesi are among the entries