New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-24
CROSS-COUNTRY RUNS.
THE STAR. PAsTIME. NATIONAL AND SEA VIEW
,.,,,rps u,or row THE TRAIL

THE STAR. PAsTIME. NATIONAL AND SEA VIEW
HARRIERs FOLLOW THE TRAIL
Four cross-country runs were held by the local
barriers Yesterday and goodly numbers OF both
spectators and athletes marked the last but one or
the Sunday spins OF this season.
The FUN began at 10 o'clock In Brooklyn. where
the invitation cross-country run OF the National
Athletic Club held. starting from the Ever
green Hotel. at Ridgewood Many athletes took
part in the rum men wearing the emblems OF the
Star and Pastime Athletic clubs. Sea View Har-
riers and Evergreen National and Mercury Athletic
clubs being seen on the trail. The course. "hlch
was laid out by Harry l. Rope and Rutherford
Wills was most trying. as the spring ploughhg
had made some of the fields hard work for even
the strongest runners In the pack. but the pace
was fast and well maintained all the way. Among
the well-known athletes who ran were captain
William D. Wynne. Peter Wend. Anthony l.. NC
Keever "Al" Slower. James l.. Kruger. August
] Grill James D. McCutcheon. John Wills charles
Wills Norman Wilson. Frank Reuss. Andrew j.
West Oscar Hauck Dr. Iharles D. fHus' Ai'"u
H. Jaggers and others
Tho course led I'D the Glendale Road TO the farm
lands and thence diagonally across the country to
Maspeth: thence to Newtown. to East Williamsburg.
making detour near the Fresh Pond Crematory
TO the Metropolitan Park and around Reservoir
Heights to Rldgewood Terrace. and back down the
Glendale Road home. William d. Wynne. National
Anthony i. McKeever National 4. c., who had
Andrew West at his shoulder: Arthur IL. Jaggets'
the heavyweight, came next, ana the rest OF w. w
pack were fairly well punched. the Natlonal aai i
iees carrying off the honors owing TO their knO"i
edge OF the course. Time 0or the eight mies'-
Il 5SA. 49, pos,,r,e
Little" Pfortner led the pack OF the Pas, aine
Athletic Club In their last run before the closing
interteam match with the Star Athletic CIuD 90, 1a
Long Island City next Sunday. over an eight-nile
course OF me Jerome Handicap tran yestcIuaas
The going heavy and a stn pace was nn.,'
tanned all the way Pfortner STAYED on al rushes
and We n,
Ryan third. T1me-5l.lia. -, -, 1o,g
The final run OF the Star Athletic Club OF Lone
Island prior TO their match with the Fas',hle 90,
letc Club team was decided yesterday, the sta, star
being from the grounds of the organization. ro NJ
feminist and Nernon-ave. the couIse eu
grounds straight out across country 10 NoouSluo
Heights: thence TO the farna ,itm 70 hact nv
through Louona Park TO Laurel till ana paeK Dy
wsy OF Blissville to Long Island CITY r. w. MI MI
nejv and Garrett J. Fitzgerald had II hot any :.
heavy all the way. Kennedy The mug mug nse olsnd
winning by scaniy yaru fourth wr J. HcManus fifth
la 7 Fence sixth Time-50 minutes Nat 49,,
An old time cross-country run was hslu py II
Sea View Harriers from their clubhouse $500 dn.SS
RI. ,rsu was a little over seven and hair rnirr,
Ia ia from the clubhouse down Fourth-aVe- 70
~ ,,v line boulevard thence directly across I'M
s,e 10 the gas works, 10 Newt trecht anu
couns ,g he Dyker Meadow Golf Club links where
~ re3coated players stopped long enough 10 az
.hs ,he Uarriers and around the officers quhi
paa q, Fort Hamilton and back 10 the shore prlVe-
aS coming out at Ninety second-st. ana tneu ~
Mss; anish that sent the boys on a squirt TOT
siar,se Gaming the hill, H. O. LAYTON Was
IN The lead closely pressed by + Grant anu I'd a
few yards from home the latter nasned d MIN and
won good run, with Lawton right penino a MN two
samuel Park Bedford A.. G.. third the nrst .m
,unners being Sea View Harriers Inc tibe w"
fast being B.zSb.