Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-23
B. c. c. c. Wins RACE.
Baltimore Club Captures Team
Trophy With Is Points.
.ELPHINSTONE is FIRST
Baltimore Man Leads All the Way
After First Half Mile and
Finishes Well.

Splashed with mud from head to foot.
running easily and apparently as fresh
as when he started, Henry c. Elphln-
stone, the captain of the Baltimore Cross
Country Club track team, finished fifty
yards il front of his nearest competitor
in the annual championship cross-country
run held yesterday under the auspices
of the South Atlantic Association of the
Amateur Athletic Union. The Baltimore
long distance crack was never headed
after the first mile and there was never
a doubt that it was his race. The time
was 80 minutes 40 seconds.
When the starters pistol cracked, send,
ing the men away on their rough jour-
ney, Johnny Bolac of the Washington
Cross Country Club leaped into the lead
and started out at a fast pace, but he
had not gone far before Elphinstone took
the lead and from that time on 1t was
only a question Of a fight for the places
by the other men. After about half the
distance had been traversed. Kelly, an
other Baltimore Cross Country Club man,
passed Bolac and went into second place
and u few minutes afterward Geller OF
the same club moved into tnird place and
the first three runners to finish were
these men in one. two, three order.
fish of the Washington Cross Country
Club in AZ minutes 40 seconds. Five
seconds later Bclac, who lately began to
run under the colors of the same club.
crossed the line. Both men finished
strong, and had they been better able
to judge their pace should have been
closer to the leaders. Three Washington
Cross-Country Club men came in tenth,
eleventh and twelfth when Holland, Rem
ner and Beller decided the places in the
To-, 1,-oI ls- ev,r{pa
and Schofeld of the same club sprinted
the last fifty yards to the tape for four
teenth place, and it was decided by the
judges a dead heat between the two.
Their time was A. minutes and 80 sec
onds..
The team trophy was easily captured
by the Baltimore Cross-Country Club,
with the lowest number of points that
has ever won a distance run i'll this sec
ton OF the country, IL. Cross-country
seventh. Geipe was the man who finished
last among the first four Baltimore G. c.
c. runners. The Washington Cross
Country Club was second, with % points.
and the 5th Regiment Athletic Associa-
ton of Baltimore third, with q.
The time made was fairly good when
it is considered that the route travelled
by the men was ankle deep in slush and
mud. The course, if anything. was worse
than year ago, when the event was
won by Breyer Of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity. ElphinstOne was not pushed at any
time during the race. though. and it is
fairly certain that had there been some
other man close to him he could have
made considerably better time.
The last man to finish was Collegeman
of the Washington Cross-Country Club,
in - minutes seconGs-over eight min
utes behind the time set by the winner.
Lee Of Johns Hopkins University and
Stecker of the Washington Grove Athletic
Association did not compete, neither of
the men showing up for the race. 1t was
expected that each of the two men would
be prominent ccntenders for first honors
and it was disappointment to the spec
tators when it was found that they would
not compete. especially when it was gen.
orally thought that the local man had an
even chance to win from Elphinstone.