The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-25
WITH THE COLLEGE ATHLETES
D0IN6s IN TIE FIELD OF SPORT
IN EAST AND WEST.
Cross-COuntry Men Take Centre Of stage
cornell Not SO strong ~ Usual. but
by Ns Means Weak-C0lumbia N
Prtncet on 10 III Watched This Time.

~ No Means Weak -C9iuniDia n
Princeton 10 ne Watched This Time.
The intercollegiate cross country race
10 to be held next Thursday at Princeton.
seven colleges having teams entered for the
run. Cornell. the champion Of recent
years, ia not expected to do quite IS well
this time. although the reports Of poor
runners from Ithaca are somewhat dis
counted by the showing made in the run
from Dryden to Ithaca, eleven miles, in
which the leaders finished well together in
fast time. The Ithscsns will, no doubt,
enter as q team the first seven men to fnish
in the race for the Auerbach cup. These
will be; Magofin. captain: Lemon, Col
pitts, Seelye, Nobis, wilgoose and Keenan,.
OF these men all except keenan, have had
competition in intercollegiate races. The
showing Of the first four men In the Mara
thon run was exceptional. Magofhn, de-
spite thefact that he had twisted his ankle
in the fret part Of the race. finished about q
yard ahead OF Lemon. Colpitts was the
same distance behind Lemon. Magofin
ran he distance in I hour 3 minutes q
seconds, which certainly is fine work. h
fourth man, Seelye. was two seconds behind
the winner. With all that there was q
difference Of three minutes and six seconds
between the first man and the seventh.
Cornell may not have a. good a team this
year as usually has been sent out from
Ithaca, but IL looks like a combination that
would be hard 10 beat.
And not a weight thrower, pole vaulter,
jumper, hurdler or sprinter in the lot" rs
Moakley might say. That IN a point on
which the Cornell coach is tickllsh. He
resents very bitterly the implication that
he is a one sided coach. Not that he is,
but there are some who cannot forget that
Cornell has a lot of good distance runners.
Monkeys own estimate OF the chances OF
Cornell in the coming championship prob
ably would be indefinite, but he would no
doubt say that the team was good enough
TO be among the leaders.
Princeton, which never before has shone
particularly in the game Of hill and dale
running, is likely TO have a better team
this year, simply because the course over
which the race IL to he run is more familiar
10 the Tigers than to any other team.
Customarily at Princeton there is one good
man who gives the Leaders a run il he does
not win-such, for instance, as John Cregan
and r. r. Williams. A a team the Prince
tonians generally do not qualify well up.
This may be true again this year. The
Princeton men have a good runner in John
Eisele, who Iast year o the Daily Prince
tonian cup and has a good start toward
getting it again. Eisele was not eligible
when the cross country championships
were run last year.
In the springtime he ran WI miles in
Q minutes ~ seconds and was figured
strongly in the intercollegiate track CHAM
pionships, but again he was not eligible.
He il in good standing now, and COPELAND
expects that he will be well up in the race.
The rest Of the Princeton team il not much
for strength or numbers either. . There
are several new men who have been doing
well enough, but this race will be their first,
and they cannot be figured exactly to form.
There are a few veterans X the kellys
a I'D a couple OF other men who will show
improvement in the race.
Whether it was with intention, the move
OF changing to Princeton for the annual
race has worked up interest in cross-country
running at the Jersey institution and that
is a good thing for the sport In general.
II will prosper only as the composition
between colleges becomes sharper. Prince
ton has walked up over the idea and the
teams there will improve from nov on,
il il a perfectly safe prediction. At Column
bia, too, the interest has increased: Column
bia has been on a par wit the Princeton
team for some time and the New Workers
are trying TO advance as much if not more
than their rivals:
The effect at Columbia has been most
cheering. Men who never before have
taken any interest in track athletics or
come out. To be sure the best men on the
Columbia team are those who bave had
experience, such AZ Anthony link, Ferris
Hetherngton and Benton Sanders. On
the other hand, William j. Donovan, who
has made a place on the team, has e
wrapped up in football and rowing since
he entered college. Last year he was for
a time the quarterback Of the i'll fated
Columbia footb all team. He rowed as a
substitute on the varsity crew for two
when the team started out this fall solely
because there was no football work TO keep
him up in physical condition. He de-
vsloped rapidly into a strong, although
Crooks expects that his speed will come
along later. He suffers from the influence
Of rowing. which slows up all
A. p. Montgomery, who has a place on
the team, acted as coxswain of his class
Grew In the freshman year and has been
trying for the place Of varsity coxswain
since. He took up running for the fun of
IL and showed such natural aptitude that
Il was not long before he was holding the
leaders easily on the practice runs. Mont
Romery, as might De imagined from his
rowing connection, is not a big man. He
has rood clean action az a rune and great
things are expected Of him. H. Harper Is
another absolute novice who is on the
Columbia team. He never had run before
this year, but took to 1t 50 well that he was
able 10 get a place on the team before long.
All along the line this season the report
has been the same.
Columbia, through the abolition Of foot
bali, certainly has gained in track athletics.
To most college men football IL the greater
sport and track athletes themselves will be
free to admit that. But the abolition of
football at Columbia, while received with
expressions of ~disloyalty by most OF the
students, had rather a deadeninR effect,
Apathy succeeded the hrst fierce outbreak
except on the part Of he track athletes.
They did not care TO bury themselves in
inaction iust because there was no football
team and they got TO work m started
to boom their sport at the expense of
the departed game. How well they have sue
ceeded in one department the intercoIle-
gate croas-country race will show. The
dual meets and the intercollegiate cham
pionships next spring will put the stamp
OF approval or disapproval on the rest OF
the season.
Pennsylvania has two very good men this
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