The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-24
THE WEEKS SPORTS Returning Olympic Athletes Will Visit Roosevelt at
 Oyster Bay.
PIRATES AND GIANTS CLASH
Tennis Participants at Newport Grand Circuit Races at Readyille
 Other Events.

New York, Aug. 23.--Homage, sucn as rarely has been paid band of ath- letes, will be rendered the victorious American Olympic team this week The last of the athletes will arrive by the Mauretania Friday morning and that afternoon the team will visit Oyster Bay, where President Roosevelt will re- ceiye it's members. Saturday a great demonstration in their honor has been arranged in New York. A monster parade of ten divisions, composing military, athletic and civic bodies and escorted by numerous bands will march from Forty sixth street to the city hall where 1t will pass in review before either Lieutenant Governor Chanler or Acting Mayor McGowan. One of the divisions will be made up of automo- piles In which will ride the members or the American team. After the parade New Workers will be treated to a grand series of athletic games at Celtic Park, Long Island, in which a majori- ty of the olympic winners will com pete.
 Play at Tennis Starts To-day.
 The tennis players again will have Newport as their principal rendezvous this week. Play will be resumed there Monday in the sixth round of the na- tional singles championship. Other ten his tournaments to be held are:
 Monday. West Virginia champion ship, at Parkersburg; Missouri Valley championships at Kansas City and the inter mountain singles and doubles championships at Salt Lake City, Wednesday, international and Can adian championships at Niagara -on- the-Lake, and Saturday, tri-state (Ohio. Indiana, Kentucky champion ships at Cincinnati.
 Eighty-t three Entries for Golf.
 The golflng feature will be the na- tional open championship tournament to be played over the links of the My. opia Hunt club, Hamilton Mass. Thursday and Friday Eighty-three en- tries have been sent in.
 Quaker City Cricket Team--Polo
 Championship.
 The Gentlemen of Philadelphia crick- ct team finish up their games in Eng land this week.
 A large entry list has been received for the polo championship which be- gins next Saturday at Van Cortlandt park, New York city, and run through to September 5,
 American Yacht Clubs Summer Re-
 gatta.
 Next Saturday for the yachtsmer there has been arranged the Ameri- can Yacht clubs summer regatta, the New Haven Yacht clubs open regatta the Bridgeport Yacht clubs annua regatta the Rhode Island Yacht clubs fall regatta and the open regatta oi the New Rochelle Yacht club, Shooting at Camp Perry-Great Base bell Game. | At Camp Perry, Ohio, beginning Monday, fifty United States servict and National Guard teams will begir shooting for national championship l honors
 The attention of the baseball fans will be centered upon Plttsburg to- morrow for the Giants and the Pirate! then will commence series of games which probably will have a direc bearing on the result of the race fol the pennant Pittsburg now leads thu New York team by four points. American Trotting Derby and Grant
 Circuit Races.
 The grand circuit races this weel move to Readville, Mass, where Tues day the American trotting Derby vii be run for by large 10ld of higf class horses. The race is handicap and the purse Is worth $50,000, tn, largest amount ever offered for { single light harness race Sonom; Girl, Sterling Mckinney and Hamburl Belle are few of the animals eligibl, to start.
 The event of the running turf vii be the Fist renewal of the Futurity a Sheepshead Bay next Saturday. It i a race for two year olds at six fur longs and this year is worth nearl, $50, 900.
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