The sun., 1908-11-15
WITH THE COLLEGEATHLETES
DOINGS IN THE FIELD or SPORT
IN EAST AND WEST.
the Coming Crosse COuntryRace and Those
OF the Past-COrneli's Supremacy In
the Game-suEgestion for Circuit
OF Raees-On Loyalty and Athletics.

The Coming Crosse OuntryRAce and Those
OF the Past-COrneli's Supremacy In
| the Game-suEgestion for Circuit
OF Raees-On Loyalty and Athletics
The oss-oountry race TO be held at
Princeton next Saturday will be the
tenth intercollegiate contest held II
will mark the third occasion also that
the race has been held at Princeton
The starters in the run this year will be
Cornell. Columbia. Michigan, Pennsyl-
vania. Yale. Harvard Syracuse. Prince
ton and possibly Massachusetts, lnsti-
tute of Technology 1t Is not 30 sure
that NJ. l. T. will start. although the
privilege has been accorded to the Massa-
chusetts men OF running II they wish to.
They did not retain thei, membership
In the !. G. A. A. A. A. this season. which
ordinarily would prevent them taking
part In the cross country run now that 1t
Is under the control Of the intercollegiate
association; but y special provision
they may start in the race, as they are
supposed to be going to apply for men,
bership In the |. G. A. A. A. A. at che an
nual meeting.
Cornell, judged from the victory over
the Yale runners at New Haven recently
is no worse of than usual for runners
which means that Cornell probably has q
first rate team. The record OF the tina
cans in oross-country racing in this coun-
try has been remarkable. Since 1899
when the intercollegiate cross-country
ESQ called run was held first over the
jumps at Morris Park the lthacans have
been beaten only once. That was in
1901 when Yale won at Morris Park
and the Ithacans were third. That was
thu worst they ever did in the race. and
1t is to be noted that since the contest
ceased to be a steeplechase affair and
came to be real cross-country running
the Comedians have won with consum-
mate ease on all save one occasion. That
was in 1905 at Princeton. when Pennsyl-
vania gave the Cornell men scare.
The Ithacans have done much to en-
courage q higher standard OF cross-coun-
try running in the other colleges by put
ting it we'll up in their own. 1t means
that the others have to he first raters
to stay anywhere near the Cornell men
in a race, and that is a wholesome thing
for the others. Incidentally, although
the intercollegiate cross-country race
was started in 1890 with five colleges,
Cornell, Yale. Pennsylvania, Princeton
and Columbia, it has grown now to the
total of nine, with the chances that next
year there will he dozen.
Looking over the results OF cross
country racing in the colleges, it is odd
to note that Cornell men have been on
two occasions only the winners OF the
individual championship. Although Cor
nell won in 1899 and 1900, the first men in
those years were respectively John +.
Cregan Of Princeton and Alexander Grant
of Pennsylvania. In 1901. when Yale
finished first, Douglas W. Franchot OF
Yale was the individual winner: In 1902
Arthur C. Bowen Of Pennsylvania was
the champion. In 1908 Cornell won both
honors. Warren f.. Schutt. afterward
the Rhodes scholar, won the race. The
year following +. T. New man, another
Ithacan. finished first In 1905 William
j. Hail Of Yale won the intercol-
legiate AMI incidentally the national
championship. The next year Lloyd
p. Jones Of Pennsylvania was the first
man to cross the line and in 1907 Guy
Haskins of Pennsylvania won.
So, although Pennsylvania never has
been better than second in the team race,
the Quakers have had the individual
champion four times out OF the nine.
Cornell and Yale have had the honor
twice each and Princeton once
cRRoAN WON FIRST RACE.
In the race in 1899 over the hurdle and
! Do VII
the rest Of his team was nowhere and did
not score in the points. Cornells men
ni,hed 8, s, Q and 10, winning with a
total Il "a points. Yale, with 50 points,
was second; Pennsylvania, with so, third,
and Columbia, with n, fourth In 1900,
Whea Grant won Cornell finished 2, o, 8,
10, for a total Of 20 points. There was a
tie between Penhsy lvania and Yaie for
second place. Pennsylvania was little
the better, hlv:ng two men / a before the
fist Yale man to finish. These two col
leges had 2s points each. Columbia
again was last, with II points The
rivalry between Franohot OF Yale and
Bowen OF Pennsylvania was interesting
to watch. In 1900 Eowen was fourth
and Oh cken Franohot, as he was called,
fifth. The following Franchot was
the champion and Bowen second. The
yea after that Bowen was the champion,
beating Franchot..
It was in 1901 that the Cornell string
was broken or the moment. Yale had
a better team than usual and Cornell a
oorer team thin ordinarily There was
some conflict OF authority at Ithaca,
which Jack Moakley determined to let
run to its fate. The result was a much
poorer team than ordinarily and some
contrite Comedians after he race was
over and their men beaten by Yale's
Indeed. Pen sylvania slipped ahead
OF the Ithacans so they had The pleasure
merely Of beating out Princeton, Column
bia d not furnish team that year. Yale,
with /, S, Ia d 0, scored 20 points. Penn
sylvania, with 2, 0, 10 and 10, had 81
points, four less than Cornell, with 4, 8,
II and H. Princeton had 81 points.
The following year, 1902. the last race
at Morris Park was he'd. The Ithacans
marked the getaway by retrieving their
old prestige. Although Bowen Of Penn
carried of the first medal the Cornell
men came In 4, s. 0 and and thus made
"a points. Yale. with 80 points was
second; Pennsylvania, with 90. third;
Harvard, with &c. fourth; Princeton
with 49, fifth, and Columbia. with no.
sixth. 1t was Havard's first appear
ance in the cross-country race.