The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-27
= HH THE COLLEGE ATHLETES
DOINGS IN THE FIELD OF SPORT
IN EAST AND WEST.

IN EAST M WEST.
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Crosse ountry Celebration at Cornell 4
He an Elaborate Anair-Haryar,
Views o E1ectlpg Team Manager
N on Collection Of Subscription
II may not be appropriate these war;
days to think OF o~ross-country running
but the weather has moi deferred thoB
enthusiastic Comedians who are gettinI
up a celebration for mex fall from work
ing right through the summer. Mex
autumn will be a double deoennial, tn,
tenth year OF intercollegiate cr~oss-oountr!
running inaugurated by Cornell and tel
years Of Jack Moakley 10 trainer at Ith
@ At the last ~oross-country ace dow
In Princeton some OF the old time Cor
nellians attended to cheer for their col
lege. One man suggested 1t would b,
q fine thing next fall to 60 back to Ithaoa
just for a taste OF the air and to get thu
old feeling back in their bones.
Jack Moakley said: 1T would do thu
team a world Of good and create a lot Of
enthusiasm for distance running II som
OF you fellows could get back In training
season. Those men said that most Of
them could get back, and then 1t struck
them that it would be a fine idea to have
lot Of the old timers get in shape in the
hummer and return in the autumn for
u or a race against the varsity squad
When that was suggested to Moakley he
wrote: you may write the fellows thai
the proposed meet has my hearty ap.
proval; that I believe it will aid sports
here not only for o~ross-country but may
example. 1t will be a great pleasure to
meet the fellows who were once my pupils
In a sport hat has brought 30 much honor
and glory to Cornell"
Since that time the three men who have
been getting it up. X. w. Woodward,
Barrett Smith and B. j. Lemon, have
been working with all their might. They
have written to all the men who ever did
any cross-country running at Cornell
having reached as many as possible
through class secretaries, and have had
many answers from these athletes. The
three enthusiasts mentioned have gone
30 far as to have made up a publication
called the Decennidl Bulletin. Of which the
first number was got out appropriately | n
May in Boston by Barrett Smith and dis
tributed on the Friday Of the i%ntercolle-
gate games among the members OF the
track team Their in Boston.
II contained letters from H. l.. Trube.
G. F. Magofin, w. 8. Nob!s, ROLAND s.
Trott. Arthur d. Kemp. G. j. Morrison,
E. T. Newman. B. j. Gallagher and j. v.
Colpitts. All these. except Morrison will
be in Ithaca surely and Morrison may
come. although he says he is not in shape
to III The other men % since the
idea was started have beer doing a little
work and most Of them have been keep
ing in shape ever since they quit college.
There are other men on the committee
list, Of whom twelve have signifed that
they will be back for the race.
Others have still to make up their minds.
They arc A. j.. Sweet, j. c.. Finch. T. M.
Foster, E. E. Seelye, Z. A. Judd and Ted
Roberts. 1t will be a little hard to get
such men as F. W. Poate, who is In Shang-
hal. and c.. c. Terrence. who is in CANA
guey. 1t is expected, however. in addition
to these men that Warren s. Schutt, d. C.
Munson. A. o. Berry. E. P. Stronger,
G. T. Pollard, C. c. White. Arthur Starr,
M. Sleeth and j. p. Halsted will be got.
The committee cannot find out the ad-
dresses Of Hemingway. Plumer. David
McMeekan. Flanders and Lewis, who also
we're cross-couptry men at Cornell.
Going down through a list such as that
printed in the Bulletin is like going through
the names of the men who have been cross
country team champions since 1899. 1t
Ii likely that the race will be held on No
vember 10, on which date Cornell and
Chicago play football in Ithaca. The
race will probably be run in the morning
DO that the men will be able. IL they can
go that far after running. to taxa In the
football game In the afternoon. The
whole thing IL we'll managed will be a
splendid tribute 10 Moakley and also to
the strength Of the hold that distance
runs have at Cornell. 1t will be interest
ing too 10 note how many Of the men APP
pear in condition to run a race that is at
all hard. because not all the men who take
part In college athletics are very fit for
exercises three or four years after they
have quit the game.
C~oRNELL1ANs ENTHUSIASTIC.
Cornell has a very loyal and enthusiastic
following In track sports, and II is notice.
able that no matter where the intercol-
legiate games are held there always is a
good division OF Comedians to put up a
cheer for the Ithaca men who are COM
peting. The same is true OF the cross
country meet. for which Cornell alumni
always turn out better than those Of any
other college and seem even to outnumber
the Princetonians who watch the ace
although it is held Oh Princeton's own
course. Probably the general success Of
Cornell track teams has been due not q
little to this enthusiastic sentiment. 1t
is clear that the lack OF success OF the team
this year was due entirely to the fact that
80 many OF the students believed the
championship was as good as won simply
because Cook and Talbot were on the
team.
Speaking Of Cook, it Ia an odd thing
that he should have accepted the zap
taincy OF the track team II he had any
idea OF withdrawing from college directly
afterward. 1t will be a very hard blow
Il the Cornell prospects IL he has made
up his mind positively not to come
back for his final year. because Cook
won the intercollegiate broad jump In
and 1909 and this year also earned a
place in the pole vault. His withdrawal
will certainly deprive the Cornell team
OF FIVE points in the games and probably
Il will necessitate several changes.
1t vas hoped that he might be able
to take care Of the hurdles and the broad
jump, seeing that Cornell has now lost
Talcott, the strongest hurdler the team
had outside of Cook. It will mean deyel-
,oping or rather working with other broad
jumpers to attempt 10 bring them up to
the standard that Cook made, but II Is
unlikely that Moakley will be able to find
any one in a long time who Is as capable