The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-01
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cross country running IN the cur
leges will from now on be one of the
most important OF fall sports, all be-
cause the Cornell track team won the
Intercollegiate last spring through
the remarkable work of its long dis
stance runners scoring in the three
long run events just 20 points, more
than enough to win the games. The
remarkable record OF the Cornell
track team was due entirely to the
work OF long distance runners who
had been trained since their entrance
to the university in cross country run
ming over the hills surrounding
Ithaca, Jack Moakley, Cornell's track
trainer, saw the feasibility of this
plan when he first came to Cornell
and the first man he developed under
the system was Schutt, who won the
two-mile run at the intercollegiate
games so easily for several years.
At Ithaca a different method is in
vogue in the cross country work than
at any other college. After the cross
country championship on Thangsgiv-
ing Day the work does not stop; hare
and hound chases are held from then
on until the end of the winter with
the result that Cornell long distance
runners are hale and hardy when the
spring track season opens.
At Pennsylvania this fall George
Turner, who is in charge of Pennsy-
vania cross country team, will follow
along these lines. A big inducement
is to be offered to the cross country
candidates who come out for the team
in the shape of three handsome gold
medals that will be given for first,
second and third places in the six
and one-half mile run over the Fair
mount Park course to the three best
Pennsylvania runners who finish in
that order in the race to be held the
week previous to Thanksgiving Day
the date of the intercollegiate cham
pionship at Princeton. Root, the red
and blue two-hniler, and Haskins, the
mile champion at Penn, will not be
eligible for these prizes.
In addition to the prizes the first
seven men to finish will be sent tn
Princeton to take part in the work.
At Columbia an effort will be made
country club and a cup will be offered
this fall to the man winning the great
est number of points in the series of
by far the best facilities of any of
the colleges for cross country work
and this year the Tigers will hold
cross country runs and hare AMI
hound chases all fall and winter over
the Jersey hills about Princeton.
Mike Murphy, Pennsylvania foot
ball trainer and track team coach, has
placed George Turner in charge OF the
red and blue cross country candidates
and the latter is determined to arouse
the interest of the students in this
sport. In an effort to get large num-
Der of candidates for this years cross
country team, Coach Turner is arrang-
ing to have offered three solid gold
medals to the first three men who fin
ish In the college championship cross
country run.
This college cross country run will.
be held at Paramount Park, one week
before the intercollegiate cross coun-
try meet, at Princeton, and the first
seven men to finish in this race will
represent the university of Pennsyl-
vania in the intercollegiate run.
In Offering these three gold medals,
which are to be given by unknown
parties, who are anxious to encourage
long distance running at the univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, Coach Turner
announced that both Haskins and
Root would be ineligible to compete
for these prizes. AS an explanation
to this rule the authorities at the
Quaker institute stated that as both
Haskins and Root are cross country
runners of experience and should not
need prizes to arouse their interest.