Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-08-29


also be n@torbCat and launch races
from the SAME station at the same
time.
On Tuesday, which will be known
as fireman's day, the sport features
will consist of motor boat and launch
races, off the Bedell House in the Nj
agara river, on the shores Of which
the local launch clubs have recently
erected some fine permanent homes.
The growth of the launch In Buffalo
has been great in recent years and
this city now owns some of the finest
little craft speeding on the waters
of any section of the country.
In the evening on Tuesday will
come the Illuminated automobile pa
rade and only those who appreciate
The record number of automobiles
owned in Buffalo can imagine what
grand spectacle this pageant is GER
tain to be.
Lacrosse on Canadian Day.
The big sport feature of Wednesday,
Canadian Day, Is sure to be the la
to be held at The Front in the morn
ing. The Buffalo Lacrosse club, one
of the best In America, will meet on
this occasion the best Canadian team
that can be matched. Lacrosse Is as
much the national sport in the Domin-
ion as baseball is on this side of the
border and as the Buffalos are well
prepared to put up spirited battle a
thrilling exhibition of the grand pas
time should result.
Launch races will be held on the
Bedell House course in the afternoon,
and on the Park Lake there will be a
regatta for the canoeists, arranged by
the Buffalo Canoe club. A variety of
boats will be brought down from the
Point Abino station of the club and
there will be all sorts of competitions,
for singles up to the big war canoes,
while fitting and other manner of fun
will not be neglected This canoe
meet promises to be a most promin-
ent feature of the weeks sport pro-
gram.
The grotesque parade on Wednes-
day night will furnish chance for
sporting clubs to distinguish them.
selves.
Thursday will be Mckinley Day,
with the parade of the American and
Canadian troops, the dedication of the
monument and other events.
Tennis, Golf, Trapshooting.
All during the week there will be
in progress a tennis tournament on
ed in the old home of the Country
Club, and it is expected the play will
reach it's climax by Friday. 1t is hoped
that this tournament will include
among the players Miss May Sutton
the wonderful girl player from Cali
fornia who has held the American
championship, and who recently re.
turned from England, where for the
second time she annexed the title of
British champion in the national
tournament on the Wimbledon courts,
near London. The Park Club will
maintain open house all during the
week for visiting tennis enthusiasts.
On Saturday there will be motor
boat races and launch races under the
auspices of the Letchworth club
All during the week, also, there
will be in progress other sports, for
which definite place in the weeks
schedule has not yet been assigned.
These will include trapshooting
meet on the Audubon Club traps, in
which all local and many out-of-town
expert marksmen will compete for
prizes. Golf tournaments will also be
under way during the week on various
links and negotiations are under way
for a polo game on the Park Meadow
in which the Country club four will
meet a crack team to be selected from
a field made up of the crack Meadow
brooks and teams from Rochester and
Toronto polo clubs. Buffalo's polo play.
ers have always been distinguished
for their play with mallet and ball
since the days that local team cap.
tured the national tournament, held
annually at Newport, and this match
should be one of the prettiest spec.
tacles on the sport program.
Bowlers of the country have been
invited to take part in the Old Home
Week bowling tournament, which will
be held at the Palace alleys all the
week, and it should be one of the
pin knights big affairs of the year
Professional baseball will be in pro
gress at Olympic Park all the week
| the Buffalos meeting the best teams
in the Eastern League circuit daily
| Flights of carrier pigeons and numer
GUS other events in which the sports
men are interested are planned, but
not yet definitely fixed on the sched
ule, so that in the great rush of things
| doing during the first week in Sep
| tember the sport lover will not fine
| himself neglected any minute of the
day.