Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

came n very iaSt track runner mueeu. Gut
side Of Melvin Sheppard. he probably was
as good a distance man az there was in
the country when the American team was
sent over TO London for the Olympic
games.
Pennsylvania Loses Haskins.
Pennsylvania. which was second to Cor
nell In the race at Princeton last fall. has
lost Haskins, first. and Jones. seventh,
Of the men vino qualified for the Red and
Blue. ouigley. eighth; Boyle, ninth; Jack.
seventeenth, and Moore. nineteenth, OF tho
Pennsylvania combination, still arc avail
able. Morris, thirty-third. and Gum,
forty-third, were the other Psnnsyivanisns
to finish. The four of the Quaker six still
on hand have developed considerably since
last fall. They showed that in the track
and field campaign Of spring ard will UNI
doubtedly do much better in the race this
fall. About the best Of the new men that
Pennsylvania has 10 count on are such
runners as PAUL ard Hunter. who were
ineligible last autumn. PAUL Is probably
the fastest distance runner Pennsylvania
has.
Yale was third last year, with Splitter.
twelfth; Reynolds, fourteenth; villas, eigh-
teenth: Haskell. twentieth; Converse, thir-
ty-fifth. and Luther, thirty-sixth. These
men are all in college now. Splitter showed
great Improvement IN the course of tho
spring work and may be expected this
time to give the leaders a good fight.
Yale has added this year the incentive Of
presenting the varsity letter to any man
finishing in the first twelve in the inter
collegiate run. regardless of the success or
failure of the team. This IS expected to
timulat interest in cross-country run
ming. Yale has. besides the six already
named. Kiriasoff, who was fifty-ninth last
fall. In addition, the distance men who
were freshmen last year will be along to
take part In the runs.
Syracuse, on the occasion of it's first APP
pearance IN the cross-country race. was
fourth, last autumn. The upstate men
got tips on the way to manage and de-
veloped a cross-country team from Coach
Moakley Of Cornell. Tommy Keane APP
pears to have taken the tips carefully to
heart. He is better off for material now
than he was last year. Besides Stube,
eleventhS Marble. twenty-ninth; Benja.
min, thirtieth; Cuttings. thirty ninth, and
Campbell, forty-fifth. five OF last years
six, he has Wood, forty-ninth and Judd
fifty-seventh. He has lost only Call. who
finished in fifteenth place and was the
second Syracuse man in. In addition
Messer and Van Auken, two freshmen lasI
year. now will be eligible. They were beat
ing out a lot of eligibles in the practic,
runs and undoubtedly would have helped
to make it a good fight with Yale for thirC
place had they been in. Syracuse has taker
to cross-country running with great eager
ness. and 100 men started the season Their,
at the first call. This sort Of enthusiasm
is bound to have results.
Harvard Team Was Poor.
Harvard wasn't very far back of tn,
Orange team in fifth place and the Grim
son loses only one man of the six. He 1
Crosby, who was in twenty-second plac
when he finished and was the secont
Harvard man to get through. The other
were: Dole, sixteenth; Carter. twenty
seventh; Lassier. twenty eighth; Hoyt
forty-second, and Whitney, forty-seventh
souder, fifty-second, still is in college
Harvard ordinarily has had cr~oss-countr,