The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-03-25
STARS
To INVADE u. S.
Germans, English and Austrians
to Come Here This Summer

New York. March 25.--The interna
tional aspect in sports. spreading with
each successive year. is unusually pre-,
dominant In the tentative arrange
nents of the big sporting events fos
the summer. The program. now near
~ completed, calls for international
contests in which Americans will par
ticipate in about dozen branches ct
sport.
The list ranges from chess to yacht
ins. As friendly invaders of the Am
erican sporting arena, Chinese baseball
players ase coming from the Orient.
| cricket players and tennis experts from
tar off Australia. golf champions AMI
| polo challengers from England, yacht .
men from Germany. athletes from
Cambridge and Oxford universitie,.,
and automobiles aud aviators from
| France as well AS the usual influx a.
foreign competitors IN minor lines OF
sport.
The tide Of Americans To other
! shores Is less than is the incomins
wave, but it Includes as its unusual
feature proposed tour OF baseball
play ers and visits of American golf
era to both England and France.
Dates for most of the summers
| sporting fixtures. both at home and
abroad have now been set, and from
"A summary Of those available here, Ii
I "a. mn Ia -
have an unusual variety OF events 10
follow.
Germans Renew Sender Races.
la yachting the Germans renew the
sender" or special class races with
the Americans, paying II visit of near
IA three weeks Ia these shores in
August. The races will he held as us
ual of Marbehead Mass, the trials
being set for August 10 To 20 and the
finals beginning September |. Amer
lean yachtmen are also being urgent
! il invited To enter the international
class races at Havrc, France in July.
The go!ling season VIII see the ilrst
team match between American ana
French golfers near Paris in the latter
part Of June, following the British
open tournament in which a number oi
Americans will also participate AT
Moylake, June 10 to ~. The national
championships have been arranged Tor
| Brookline. Mass. topen) and Tor Gar
| den city. Long Island (amatenr), the
latter during the week of September
and the former from September Is 10
/ 20 The women'S national tourney
will be held at Wilmington, Del, octo-
her Ii TO is.
News that the Australian candidates
! for Davis cup honors In tennis VIII
come here to meet the Americans III
trials May 2S To 80 assures an interest
ing international contest in this sport
The national championship, in tennis
win probably be held at Newport, r. l.,
beginning August IL.
After two years interval the Hurl
ingham club is to send another poio
team here in quest of the internatioh'
nj cup. the visitors probably beihs
here for more than month. Inc
tournament will be held at Meadow
| brook j. L., juno ~ w 80
tional championship will be decided AZ
Narragansett pier in August.
Foreign Auto Racers Coming
several foreign automobile racers
are already tentatively entered Tor
tbe international 5oo-mile race on me
Indianapolis speedway on Decoration
DAY Two other biz automobile events
far the year viii be held at savannah
na Vanderbilt cup race OH November
~ and the Grand Prize on NoVeh-
Der %
An event much anticipated amonG
college athletes will be the VISIT "i
,he oxford Cambridge athletic team
,n America, probably in the latter
mart Of June. for a meeting WIN tue
harvard Yale team. The usual inter-
collegiate championships have been SET
for Nav 3O-9l at Boston ana me
pennsylvania relay carnival Tor Ph'la-
aeinhia April &c, with an unusuany
] ,arso number Of dual track and heid
,noc,o among the college teams
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