Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-10
COLLEGE ATHLETES
Doings in the Field Of Sport in East
and West.
SYRACUSE oARsMEN BEGIN WORK
Taylor of Cornell IL Unlikely to Go
in, Gross-COuntry RRce-DArt-
nfUuth Displays Greater In
terest an Track Sports.

Cross country running in the colleges
is under way in preparation for the race
that will be held at Princeton next month.
The Cornell squad which naturally at
tracts most attention because the Ithacans
have won the championship 30 often, will
include Captain Young, Bean, Brown and
Bogert. Taylor, the Intercollegiate two
mile champion and American record
holder, injured a tendon In his foot In the
summer and there is a chance thai he
will have to stay out Of cross country
running this fall. Naturally Cornell will
be most eager to annex the two mile title
again so that it is considered the part OF
policy to save Taylor for the spring.
Jones and DeGolyer, who were in the
squad last year, are two other good men
that Moakley will have OF last years
freshmen there are three good performers
who are expected to hustle some Of the
older men rather hard. Tappan and Glad
stone tied last year in the freshman cup
series. The other man is T. Berna, who Is
a brother of Hans Berna, who has been
running we'll in this district for the Irish
American. A. c.. Hunger, who was on the
cross country team two years ago, will be
back this time, so that despite Taylors
accident things look pretty good for Cor
nell.
The Pennsylvania cross country team, OF
course, will rely chiefly upon PAUL for any
contention for first place in the run. The
intercollegiate mile champion Is a trst-
rater at the long distance race and 1t Is
hoped that he will win the championship
no matter where the other Pennsylvania
men may finish. The Pennsylvania squad
is fairly strong and it is likely that 1t
will prove to be Cornells most important
rival. Michigan this time will make a
most determined effort at a better showing
than usual. The Ann Arbor men have lost
Captain Dull. their best performer, but
they have left some OF the men who scored
In the distance runs in the intercollegiate
meet last spring and IL they can pick up a
couple more good ones out of last years
freshmen they will have a fairly even team
of moderately good performers.
There has been a great increase in in
terest in track work at Dartmouth this
year and more men have reported for the
early practice than ever before. Being
under a new trainer, Dartmouth will not
have so easy a time this year to develop
a team, so that the early interest shown
is a good sign. Dolo, the new
coach. is a man who knows athletics, but
whether he will be able to turn out a first
rate team for several seasons to come is
naturally a question,
Dartmouth has put together a fair
cross-country squad, and ii is being agi-
tated whether the team shall not be sent
to Princeton for the big run there. The
Dartmouth team is a member of the
l. c. A. A. A. A. and therefore can enter
the cross-country race without any fur
Their preliminaries. II comes
in it will encourage those persons who
were eager to see cToss-country running
brought under the control of the general
association. They argued at the time
that IT would mean a vastly increased
field If the change were made.
Fall rowing at Columbia has been COM
menced, greatly to the satisfaction Of
those who remember the discouraging
spring season this year, which was due
chiefly TO a lack OF preliminary work in
tive autumn Of 1908. With the coach nav