Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-08-29
ELABORATE PROGRAM
OF Sports for BuffaIo's Old
Home Week.
H.:A2ATHON VICTOR is TO RUN

Famous Indian, Tom Longboat, on the
Track-kid Mccoy to Drive Racing
Auto Against Time-Rowing, Canoe,
Motor Boat and Launch Races.
Trap Shooting, Lacrosse, Golf, ETC.
Visitors to Buffalo during Old Home
Week, Sept. l to 7, who are sportively
inclined, as we'll as local followers of
sports and pastimes, will find plenty
ito entertain them. for on no previous
occasion has this city had planned for
Its enjoyment such program of sports
on land and water as are designed
for at least six of the seven days of
the notable week. From the salute
of the 100 guns at sunrise on Monday,
Labor Day until the curtain Is rung
down on the program of festivity
on the following Saturday night, with
chorus OF bells and whistles in a
unique farewell concert. there will be
something doing for the sport-lover
all the time; there will be something
to interest the athlete, the wheelman,
the tennis player, the oarsman, the
yachtsman, the canoeist. the launch
owner, the lacrosse and polo players,
and, in fact, there will be few, if any,
of the standard branches of outdoor
sport omitted from the weeks pro-
gram, SO well has the management
prepared to cater to a variety of
tastes.
AS may be anticipated, some of the
more important sport numbers will
come on Labor Day, national holi-
day, and the day which will usher in
the Old Home Week, and, perhaps,
1t is just as well, as in the arrange
ment of the days events there will be
no paralleling similar sports on the
schedule and there appears to be
| plenty of room for all on this day
especially.
Big Athletic BlcycIe-Auto Meet.
| One OF the big events of the week
on the sport programme will be the
| athletic-bicycle meet at Kenilworth
Park on Labor Day afternoon, opening
at 2.30 o'clock. On this occasion, un-
der the auspices of the Buffalo Athletic
Association, 4 series of events of un-
usual interest will be run off. These
will include the appearance of Tom
| Longboat, the famous Indian runner,
| who has been hailed as a successor
! of the great Deerfoot of other days,
a red man whose exploits on the roads
! and cinder paths linger yet in the
memories of the old-time followers
| of athletics. Longboat, since his vic
tory in the great Marathon road race
at Boston last spring, and his numer-
GUS other exploits, both in Canada and
! the United States, in which he has al
most uniformly been returned the vic
tor, has been much-sought athlete,
and his appearance on any asSocia-
tion's grounds has always been the
signal for record-breaking crowd
Last spring Longboat, in a three-mile
match race, at Kenilworth Park, de-
feated Buffalo's best runner. Frank
Nebrich. and there has been great
eagerness to see the Indian again in
competition in the city. This time Long
boat, appreciating there is no local
individual who could hope to measure
strides with him successfully, has
agreed to meet a relay team of three
of Buffalo's best runners, each man
running a mile, and the red man
running the three, without relief.
| Buffalo is rich in good men on the
path and while none of Longboat's
opponents singly could hope to beat
him, it is confidently expected that
he will have to break records to re-
main in the lead against the trio.
Local and out-of-town and Canadian
athletes and wheelmen will be invited
to compete in the regular events,
which promise to furnish opportunity
for an abundance of sport. Among
the athletic numbers, in addition to
the runs and sprints, will be prizes for
the hammer-thrower and shot-putters.
Another feature of this meet will be
the appearance of the former prize
fighter, Kid Mccoy, now under his
real name, Norman Selby, a promin-
ent automobilist. Mccoy has con
tracted to drive the E. r. Thomas
Vanderbilt cup racing car in an exhibi-
t!cn against time This run will give
those who have not had an opportuni-
ty to witness the cup races on the
Long Island boulevards an opportuni-
ty to see one of the big cars in action
Other features are being arranged for
this meet. Handsome prizes will be
offered.
On the Water on Labor Day.
On the water ON Labor day the
sportsmen will be busy. The Buffalo
Association of Amateur Oarsmen
which is boasting a large and increas
ing membership of experienced water
men, has arranged for an Old Home
Week regatta. Prizes will be given
for single scull. pairs, fours and eight
oar crews, and as the out-of-town and
J Canadian oarsmen are invited to entel
1T is expected the regatta will be one
: of the best ever known in this section