New-York tribune., 1906-12-16
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NEBRICH WINS A TITLE.
FIRST ACROSS COUNTRY.
Irish-Americans Earn the National
Team Championship.

The Ir,sh-Arerican Athletic Club won the
knsuonal cross-country team championship At
iTravers Island yesterday. with total or ~
points after a keen struggle with the New York
Athletic Club. which scored 81 points. +. Ne
lh-1ch Of the New York Athletic Club won tho
individual title. beating strong Held OF ths
best cross-oountry runners IN this country. IN
irlno,ne George W Bonhag. who won the metro
tpottan championship the week before The
hev York Athletic Club earned further honors
by winning the junior team championship. with
h total OF as points. with the Mohawk Athletic
kCiub team second with 5s points. T. Collins. OF
khe Xavier Athletic Club. repeated his victory In
the metropolitan championship by winning tho
isunsor individual title from ]. Malone. OF the
HMohawk club. and some thirty others.
Nebrich ran the distance Of about six and q
tsalf miles In the fast time Of 81 minutes 2s <-b
seconds. The record for the course is 81 min
lutes Is seconds. made by John J. Joyce IN 1902
ebut Nebrich's time quite as good consider
ktns the heavy. muddy going His performance
was the more remarkable he has done little
Apr no oross-country running. and only got IN
tYrorn Buffalo two three hours before the race
Matt Ealpin, the New York Athletic Club train
er sent for him only at the last minute to boil
hsrsr UP the team when Jones, the intercollegiate
champion. decided not TO run. His victory.
therefore. was in the nature Of a surprise Bon
66g was q pronounced iaNoTIle-
Nebrich had been advertised TO run in a set
of regirnertal games in Buffalo Friday night
teud was forced 10 start He not only won the
fone-.r1ile race in minutes so seconds from
tscrstch, bat had 70 work his way through a
Seld OF forty-two runners. In spite Of this ne
was fast enough 20 come down TO New YORK
ana win the national honors yesterday across
countTy.
The weather was dull and lowering and too
warm 20 be seasonable. The course was wet
and slippery and ankle deep in mud in some
places. A water jump. two fences and two stone
walls had TO be negotiated three times each 50
shsrs was no lack of variety. The course was
aaid out over a fairly rough country. The cir
cult was little over two miles, and 1t had TO
he covered three times the start and finish be-
sng on the regular track at Travers Island The
crowd was limited 10 the friends OF the runners
md a few enthusiasts. and numbered about five
hundred persons.
Twenty runners lined up for the senior
championship seven from the New York Ath-
letic Club seven from the Irish-American Ath-
letic Club. FIVE from the Mohawk Athletic Club
and one each from the Pastime and Xavier clubs
William Nelson. the well known English runner.
the only man 10 represent the Pastime Ath-
letic Club and he dropped out at the end Of two
miles. E. p. Carr for the Xaviers and I'm
sSheo q goOo 1Ourtn.
The field went off we'll punched. with Nelson.
Farrell, Bonhag, Cohn and Frank the leaders for
half a mile. Nebrich then worked his way to
the front. and, forcing the pace. had the others
pretty well strung the end OF a mile At
the two-mile mark he led by some sixty yards
and was running strong. Bonhag was second
with DAILY third, and Frank. Root and Haskins
following in that order. Harvey Cohn and Mel
Son dropped out ct this point.
Ihere was little change in the order in the
second round Of two miles. Nebrich, moving
with q free. easy stride. had increased his lead
20 full one hundred yards. DAILY had moved
INTO second place, with BonhaE third The
heaVy going was against the last named. and he
cid not appear TO have anything in reserve as
he raced by. Frank was still fourth. but Carr
had improved HE position. and passed Root
ana Hasklns, the University of Pennsylvania
runners who had finished third and fourth, re-
epectiVely In both The intercollegiate and metro
politan championships.
In the third and last circuit Nebrich easily
held his lead, and finished fresh and strong
with Daily, all out, second l20 yards away
Bonhag third and Carr, who had passed
Frank, fourth. Frank got an ugly fall and did
well 10 finish fifth. Root all but caught him at
the tape in q pretty sprint.
The juniors ran in close company for two
miles, when Collins and J. Malone drew slightly
away. and ran stride for stride for another two
miles On the third circuit Collins could not
shake Malone off, bur mana ged' TO win bv Ten
yards after desperate sprint TO the tape r.
"A. Splitter a good third, and the others
struggled in at short intervals. The summary
follows: