The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-15
SPORTING FEATURES Long and Varied Program of Outdoor Events for This
 Week.
EXACTLY WHAT IS DOING
Interesting Horse Racing Situation, as Suburban Is Scheduled for Friday
 Tennis, Golf, Yachting.

New York. June 14-Favorable weather Is all that will be required to make the mid-June week a fine one for lovers of outdoor sports. for the program that has been arranged Is q long and varied one, There will be athletics, yachting, tennis, cricket, polo, golt, baseball and horse racing.
 Horse Racing Situation.
 Early In the week added interest will be lent to the horse racing situation in New York, If legal proceedings are begun immediately to bring the consti- tutionality of the new Agnew Hart anti-race track betting law to q test lt is said that three cases will be pre- pared tomorrow to be fought through to the court of appeals with the ap- proyal of the district attorneys of flee of Kings county. Two points, it Is Is Illegal 10 post odds against a horse and what under the new law constitutes a bet; and to what extent private wa gering may be indulged In, that is, without records thereof being made.
 Friday of thls week will see the run nlng of the historic Suburban handicap at Sheepshead bay, For this race. which Is for three year olds and up- wards at ono and one-quarter miles, the best horses in America are eligible for the s25,000 purse, among them Ballot Colin and Celt, of the Keene stable; Fair Play, the Grand Hastings colt, from the Belmont stable; Mont gomery, Charles Edward, Dandelion, Salvldere. Master Robert, Frank Gill McCarter.
 Notable Track Meet.
 At Plttsburg many crack men In the athletic world will compete Saturday on the Schenley oval in big free track and field meet. The entries closed Sat urday and all the events will be filled.
 Cricket and Tennis.
 On the Staten Island Cricket club grounds Friday, the gentlemen of Phil adelphla will play the eleven of the To cal club. The day following the gentle men will sail for England for a series of games abroad,
 Several tennis championships will be decided during the week. notably the National Women's singles and doubles and the mixed doubles on the courts of the Philadelphia Cricket club, be- ginning Monday. For this event all the prominent women players have entered. State championship matches will be played in south Carolina, at Greenville, Monday and in Maryland, at Baltimore, Wednesday.
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 The premier golf event will be the open championship tournament of the Western Golf association on the links of the Normandle club, St. Louis Thursday and Friday. All the best pro fessionals of the country and the pick of amateur talent of the west have sent in their entry blanks. Wednesday over the course at Normandie, Alex Camp bell the eastern professional champion will play a match with Fred Mcleod the western title holder. Abroad the open championship will be played al Prestwich. England, beginnng Tuesday
 On the Water.
 In rowing. attention will be centered on the practice of the crews at Pough- keepsie for Intercollegiate races next week, and on the Yale and Harvard crews, which are getting ready for their annual race on the Thames June 25. The rowing contest of the week will be that of the Schuykill River Rowing club next Saturday
 The yachtsmen have busy week bo- fore them, The New York Yacht cluf will hold Its annua, regatta Thursday on Long Island sound, and Saturday the New York Athletic clubs boats will start in the race 10 Block Island. Al New Haven the same day the New Ha' ven Yacht club will hold a special re- gatta,
 Miscellaneous.
 At Bryn Mawr, Penn, the polo play. CTS will continue their tournament.
 On Wednesday, Bunker Hill day, thu postponed race meet of the Bay StatC Automobile association will be helC at the Readville, Mass, race track.