New-York tribune., 1910-11-23
oDe Football Baseball Horse Il Other
TIMELY BITS OF SPORT
English Runner Comes to This
Country with Good Record.
LIVELY RACE IN MARATHON
Mel Sheppard Has an Eye on the
National Cross Country
Championship.


A. T Wood who with Alfred Shrubh
as q partner Will represent England In
the international team marathon race Of
IS miles $50 yards at Madison Square Gar
den next Tuesday night, has come TO this
country with a record that entities him to
consideration as remarkable runner. The
coming race will be his first as q profess
sional. but he has tackled 70 his belt many
of the middle and long distance amateur
titles in England
Among his best performances were the
winning of the North Thames champion
ship in 1909 IN which he defeated three
| hundred runners over a distance Of eight
and half miles in a minutes "a As sec
onds and the winning of the same fixture
| in 1909. when he defeated three hundred
and forty-three runners in 40 minutes
40 So seconds. In the latter year he also
won the southern counties championship
from two hundred and thtrty-five runners.
running ten miles in I hour I minute A.
seconds over hill and dale course, and
the international 'cross-country champion
ship Of ten miles at Derby In IS minutes
seconds
Just To show his speed he then carried
off the famous one mile championship Of
Essex in 1909 in minutes 2S seconds.
This year he again won the southern
counties 'cross-country championship from
two hundred and fifty-fve runners by
covering the ten miles in 81 minutes 74-5
seconds His last performance before COM
ing to America was the winning OF the
International 'cross-countrv championship
Of Belfast at nine miles in "a minutes 2
seconds.
Fred Meadows and Abbie Woods who
ran second in the recently twenty-miIe
team race. sent in their entry yesterday
for the Marathon struggle Four teams
are now named: United States, Holmer
and Queal; England. Shrubb and Wood i;
Sweden, Ljungstron and Svauberg, and
Canada, Meadows and Woods.
In commenting on the Howard football
game the Yale Daily News pays a high
tribute to the Yale eleven by saving:
Dealing in superIatives is apt TO be
presumptuous or Idle; and yet it would
seem hasty view that the achieve
ment Of the Yale team during the past
season stands unparalleled in the history
of the game. Crushed by one of the most
disastrous preliminary seasons In many
years, exhausted by the recent strain of
the remarkable victory over Princeton, op-
posed by one of the finest teams Harvard
has ever produced, the eleven nevertheless
put up such fight as TO avert an ap-
Parently unavoidable and overwhelming z
defeat
Yale owes this years football team
something more than is measured by
newspaper notoriety and acclaim. The
eleven has shown what boundless powers
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men possess in greater or
less degree-qualities OF enthusiasm
of determination and of courage In
the pressure and routine Of everyday life
the recoIlecttons of such an achievement
comes 20 US an electric touch and fires
US anew to a fury OF performance
The national senior 'cross-couutry cham
pionship will be decided on Saturday at
Celtic Park. and Indications point to a
spirited struggle. Teams from the New
York Athletic Club, Irish-American Ath-
letic Club. Mohawk Athletic Club, Pastime
Athletic Club and Mott Haven Athletic
Club, among others, viii strive for the
team championship. while the newly or
ganized Pittsburg Athletic Association also
will be represented.
others. and the great middle distance run
ner says he will go the route and be
fighting it out with the leaders at the
finish. ". J. Kramer, the present cham
pion, has been training carefully 10 re-
peat his victory of year ago. while other
athletes who will try for the individual
title include Fred BelIars. H. McGinn. W
Bailey, Eddie Fitzgerald, G. A. Dull, Pitts
burg Athletic Association: Joyce, Master
son, Gilbert, DWyer, Malone and John
DAILY
The runners will face the starter at 3
o'clock.
The cycle racing stars are rapidly fall
ing in line and teaming up for the six-day
bicycle race which starts at Madison
Square Garden a week from next Sunday
night. Floyd Mcfarland and Jack Clarke,
of Australia. will make up one team.
while George Cameron and Al HaIstead
will join forces.
The first indoor swimming meet OF the
season will be held by the New York Ath-
letic Club on December II.
Charles NJ. Rademacher, Of Clinton, III.
has been elected captain of the University
Of Chicago football team for 1911.
CHESS GAME LOOKS LIKE DRAW.
Berlin. Nov. 22.-The sixth game OF the
chess championship match between Janow-
ski and Lasker, adjourned from Sunday.
was again adjourned to-day The position
Of the players was considered equal and
draw is looked for. The present score
reads: Lasker, 5; drawn. ,