The sun., 1901-12-01
YALE WINS ACROSS COUNTRY.
CAPTURES TEAM AND NDI-
VIDUAL HONORS.
Pennsylvania second In Spirited RACE for
Intcrcoile Eiate Championship at Nor
ris park--D. W. FranchOt First After
Plucky struggle With A. &. bowen.

IntcrcoiIe giats Championship at Nor
ris Park ID. W. Franchot First After
P,ucky struggle With A. G. Bowen.
Yale won the intercollegiate cros.-country
,hampionship at Morris Park yesterday,
and tho victory OF the dark blue athletes
wa, the nrst since the inception Of the meet.
The total score OF the New Hayen runners
was %: the University OF Pennsylvania was
second with n: Cornell was third vita %.
white Princeton was fourth with o.; and
ss the full Columbia team did not finish the
college earned no score. The points were
rsckonsl "a usual In team events. Each
college was allowed 10 start seven men. but
only the first four on each team counted ior
the championship. Then the college Is
credited with the numbers OF the places IN
which It's representatives finished ale
sent the full quota OF seven men TO the mark
and so did Cornell: Princeton and Penn
sylyania FIVE each and Columbia only tour,
There Swas the customary gathering OF
o'd-tme pedestrians, athletes and falr
share OF college partsans to cheer their re-
spcctive favorites Columbia led the van
in this department and II the wearers OF the
blue and white had figured at all prominent
at the nnish the woods around would have
reochoed with Columbia yells. As II was
now and again when one OF the home athletes
executed the least kind OF squirt his enort
would be the signal for some vigorous whoop-
ing Even the Columbia rooters were so
anxious that the team should make good
showing that several ran around the course
encouraging and cheering TO the end
The course was the stlffest sort OF propo-
sition Each of the five laps was mile and
quarter In circumference. making the entire
journey about six miles and quarter In
each circuit there were nine jumps and three
Of these were wicked enough to change the
flight OF a wild bird on the wing. They were
two -Iiyerpools" and water jump which
Tne iAVetpooi con,iS'' vi "a az VI Wv 80
or side. a dyke and thsn rallied brush making
the entire Obstacle ao1a. 81 tbee hedge
M ,ho az Id of which wa. n nool about
s.rtson or ~" on feet % broad the water being aed to
courss ,b" runners were not asked to negotiate
the water Jump so thN tne eh.lre hunioe' VI
Obstacles crossed numbered forty-four. IL
xa',,t wa, t'h ho,bnr ,hs vounsster, consIderahv.
o'.u ~ ,,,,ri.o -, ,hnso rrosent every ono
Of Of the , tyros tyr acquitted himself in gallant sty.e
and during the entire race there was not a
SaIk or a elarins breakdown.
hard a' and HG"t%T dTy the the frost Of the past week
'"atnS At as ' stapt s the T. twenty-cisht @ runners
lined up in two rows ana were arrange, so
f5 each ess tRa az the e'%Tl q
attendant or trainer to any OF the % men nntl
sftcr the fourth round would entail di1Guais,- squat
were sent away. Acting on the advise Of
their trainer, the Columbia men Jumped to
t"tors t 'i to the hrst liverpool" richmond
was the first over. fol by lnglchart and
Ccnne T, Tith me ihle oaptphlhii T. ornsii 1"gii
ba and G. Bowen Of pennsylyana ,n trnn, ,S soon on
lnd over tnt next jump u. -NdIu
Franchot OF ln!e was tweiith over the Liver
pool Very little chang took place among
the leaders except thai as tha PACK rounded
into the stretch toward The Brook, BoWen
drew oiear away ana wns E rnpnnihG p- as Th, atrShng
drew into thTd plaGe ana ana the men cleared % !ne
jump and finished the nIst le + IN the follo Nins
Tesi' %sidroh. Stevens. smith. boPaGge,
PonaTd, nhrohel, hlte, hicnmonu, h,eoeI I
, l,o pya,I Avn tns gps mn
the relr AZ TINS early s.age OF ahe raoe u,1 ue
yale men Mere dong so9d t%ehm % E wp,K Ts
men. EhC showed such dash al tn. start;
@ ,s'np r r'',an q, s.cnnd .'e VI '"o ni''
70 s.tte gov. 10 ,hst WoIk i ana t9unonyi
spurted ted" into second place. but yet showed
no ,ho. ,a o r,nhas'geS ~ Tho sccond
PostoI my rho~o unvha,trp lIp LOT VI. ~
beagle or a hot trail Bower cleared The
,'srdi .jhnnG Of NJ F,snchoi u,th + 'yni.rcs
siiil in third place Trott Of Cornell was fourth.
close behind Ihs time was s,,;. - m1uIes mn 1870 80
much untn the enc oi & the ,,i,d zap, bHt M ran
m.. fh1, IT, ard Ro~nn FacIng IN. "a ,yryrool@
Tor the third time fr@nChot drew almGst
WI, w.n noTSh % anu IN ,r H. fn,'l w
nlgoy as ,sey sWa9S hpps q6s,S 9Vt ,on nW@rn ,n
p1d Pod over M thu bns ssscdSd ilvrppn"l With Winmnn
etili stickiTg 90 the pair' and lrott about