New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-16
|SH-AMER|CANS SWIFT
Team from That Club Captures
Junior 'CroSS-Country Title.
M'GINN LEADS LARGE FIELD
Individual Championship Won
Cleveriy by New York Ath-
letic Club Runner.

The two RIG New York clubs shared the
honors IN the junior metropolitan cross
country championship run at Hastings-on-
the-Hudson yesterday afternoon The
rrfsh-A American Athletic Club carried of
the team prize. With a total CT % points,
but the Individual championship went TO
Harry McGinn. ~ the New York Athletlc
Club. who ran a splendid race and hnished
a. IN. head Of a field Of nearly one hun
dred starters. The Yonkers Young Men 5
Christian Association team, which FUR
nish.d q surprise by winning the JUNIOR
national championship last fall finished
second, with an entirely new Da'cn VI
runners. as the men placed in the nauohai
event we've not eligible TO compete III INC
race for .eam honors. although several VI
them ran as individuals. Inc iohAeiS
team scored 70 points.
The New York Athletic Club men were ho'
.r,e,ss as team. So although the Mercury
Foot runners were well up al the n'iisii,
,hs c,ph was denied q place in the list OF
teams. and third prize was awarded 10 'i-e e
pas,ir,o Athletic Club. which scored ~
points. The Long Island Athie'lc LUZ
which came into being only Few ino"',S
ago. was fourth, with ~ points anu 'ne
vsrcurv Athletic club, another NonkerS
club, was fifth, with lcl po'h's'
Nonawk Athletic Club was last with
total Of ls3 points.
TT. course over which the men ran was
'cross-country course In every sense Vi
~. word. for every kind Of ground had 10
he covered from plunging through marsny
sno,s 10 stiff hill climbing. Inc couis.
started in the village Of Hastings ana "eH'
north through the River View Manor prop
ert.. where IT doubled back ana leu uoNi'
BROADWAY past the clubhouse and on INTO
I-niontown. where IT look go
through the woods and then came pdch wv
the Fare gut road 20 Hastings.
Although there was brisk breeze iiop'
N. west. the sun was so warm that peioi'
me t.ld had gone half a mile the men De
gan 70 show the effects Of the nara pdce
ana the stiff climbs with the sun oeatihs
down forced one after another OF the con
.ss,arts 20 drop out Each hill claimed It's
fueta and out Of the eighty odd men VINO
entered only ffty-two were able to nnish'
McGinn. who ran so we'll last fall was
TIE first off the mark, and with the cracS
Of the gun Jumped into lead OF nan
n,z.n Yards He shot out ahead with
every stride. and at the end OF the hrs'
quarter mile the New York Athletic cur
man had a lead Of twenty-five YARDS over
Euysman. Of the 1rish-American AthieuC
Club. who was running second, with th'
other runners closely packed behind hin
and stretching out already into a line
bupdred feet or more long.
After the brisk climb up through River
View Manor and the equally sudden droT
down 10 Broadway. the men raced past the
clubhouse at the half way point of Their
tourney. with McGnn only seven or eigh
wards in the van and Huysman closing II
fast in second place. Barden, of the fon
kers Younk Mems Christian Association
was running along easily at Huysman
h.els. while Stack. of the Pastimes was
fourth. a couple OF yards behind Barden
Wv this time the field had spread out anC
stretched over half mile of the course
and the stragglers who had dropped out OF
the northward journey began 10 come In D!
back routes.
McGinn had little trouble in getting
away from Huysman as soon as ne strucf
out on the road 10 Cniontown, ana N
gradually increased his lead and won by
something more than fifty yards TIT
lace began TO tell on Huysman at abou
the five mile mark, and Barden passed him
on the run 10 the finish Nelson and Ryan
of the Irish American Athletic Club. passed
Uuvsnan. but were unable to make up any
distance on the YonSers boy, who finished
strong.