The sun., 1913-11-23
RED PRBDOMINATES
OVER HILL And DALE
Team llOnOrs Taken by Cornell.
While Harvard Man Is
First Hone.
BOYD LEADS RHl: YIELD
Twenty-Five Thousand Persons
Sec College Championship
Won in ~ N. IS.
BOYD LEADS IA RHE YIELD

ridcdy red for the intercollegiate cross
countr, run over n six mile course was
won by tho Cornell team. with low
total of sS. while the individual honors
Went to- Harvard when T. ST. X. Boyd
front of the large pack Of barriers in
80 minutes - seconds incidentally the
Harvard team took second honors in the
race with total OF .. points.
j. :. Hormire was the first Of the
COrnellians to make his way over the
finish line. Tie was in second place
about 10" yards behind the leader. How
well tn" Individual places were scattered
about is shown by the fact that
Hofrmre was the orly ithacan 10 hr;sh
lin the first ten. Harvard and Penn
sylvana each had two men among the
select. while Princeton. Dartmouth. Brown.
Yale and me Massachusetts lnstitut. OF
Technology each had one representative
in the front.
The color scheme was also oontrasted
wi:h very much blue. this Icing the gen
eril appearance OF the Princeton. Penn
sylvania and Yale rooters, who had put 80
much faith in their teams only to be
dishearteu.d by the fact hat they fin
ished NTH. fourth and eighth re-
spectiveiy. The men from IN. Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology surprised
great man 10y nbsing Icnnsylvania
out for third place The Bay state boys
hal total of lO3. while the Quaters
were just outside Of the honOrs. with l0i.
Never has a larger crowd witnessed AN
Intercollegiate event OF this kind. and to
the Police Department of the city be-
longs a great deal of credit for the way
that the throngs were handled. Twenty
five thousand persons were gathered
around the course. the majority Of them
being banked into huge square on the
polo field, where the start and finish was
made.
Ropes were made fast along either
side of the lane through which the har-
riers had to pass. and marshals were sta
toned along at regular intervals to see
that there was no repetition OF the scene
of last saturday. when the mob
swarmed over the course at the finish.
driving the winner 100 yards out OF his
path. To help the marshals Police In
sp'ctor Morris Of the Fourteenth insp, c.
tion district was on hand With Capt. Me-
cule ana thrty-three men OF the seventy
fourth precinct. They kept the crowd
back In fine st,l and gave the movie men
every chance in the world to get the run
ners on the film
Two mounted policemen led by rsri
rode around tho course in front of the
men and kept the way clear throughout.
tad IL rot been for the escort Of cavalry
the runners would probably have had
some difficulty in getting along i'm the
. districts outside Of tn. popo field. for In
these places there were no ropes 70 ke"p
the onlookers in check
When the men faced the barrier only
thirteen institutions were represented. Tor
the team that had becR entered by col
gate was Withdrawn. Then too the fact
that every college was allowed to lie
represented by only seven men made
tremendous cut int" tn. army of compeu.
tors ana instead Of two hundred AMI
eight. only lightweight actually started
pf these nine fell hy the ways.de and
scNsnty-nlre completed the course. New
York city College was the only entrunt
tina, did no. finish fun team. Only
four ~ their men stuck II out to the
bitter end and these four finished 30
far down in the list that they made
total Of .93.
Columbia gained some negative salts
faction In the fact that her men did not
finish in last place. As Il matter OF fact
they gave the Michig quintet q ter
rife battle for the cellar championship
! but the boys who came all the way from
Ann Arbor went below them by the
narrow margin Of two points. Naturally
. enough. last place must be conceded to
the Westerners. since the c. 4. y. V.
crowd gave up title to the honor by
+ failing to finish a full team.
. Some Yale and Harvard men were dis
cussing the order Of finish Of their teams
after the race and the latter suggested
that they had more than made UP Tor
! their defeat by the Blue recently at New
Haven and that they felt certain they
e could beat the Bulldog any time over
a regular course. The Vale men We're at
. n loss TO know why their Crimson rivals
had called the Van Cortlandt Park courS"
9 n regular one since there were no pfoohs
To swim through.
: At the halfway mark everything was
j crimson and the Harvard cohorts spare
2 no efforts to make themselves hoarse by
D giving vent to cheers long and loud, for
n coming up the lane could be seen two
Harvard men running neck and neck. en-
Toying lead whicm although II was
slight was sufficient to give JOY to the
= rootcrs The leaders were i. II. BlaCkman n
n and Boyd. the eventual winner the latter
p only a few feet behind his teammate
y They were followed by q. l.. Stafford
I Yale: l.. e. Madeira Sd, Pennsylvania
w. NJ Mct'urdy. Pennsylvania, and y. =
= Morrison, Princeton, who were punched
"A The leader had completed the first three
n miles in n minutes IS seconds.
n A little further back there was another
h bunch, led by Iioffmire. Cornell. followed
t by r. H. Marceau, Dartmouth: A. Lang
ncr. Pennsylvania II. s. Bensen. Massa
d chusetts Institute of Technology i. |"
e Cook, Massa C husetts Institute OF Tech
$ nology; H. l.. Barnett, Princeton; G.. l..
o Speiden, Cornell; A. B. Coop and A. /.
y Langley. both OF brown; + NJ Frederick-
Y son, Cornell J. a. Leyden. Penn state
= e. r. purgin and W. II. r. Granger. Jr
= both Of Dartmouth. and IL. =. Litchhcld
Brown After these men had passed. most
e OF the runners who were coming along
: were pretty well strung out.
u Down at the tail end of the race. how
:. ever the chaf of the race came all In 4
d bmch and these boys. who were now hope
A lessly out of 1t and only running to see II
/. they could inish. were having grand
@ little party all by themselves. JockeyinG
e for position. The Onlookers did not take
!. them seriously, hut perhaps for all one
+ knows this jockeying may have deter
r mined which would wear the cellar crown
r Columbia or Michigan.
i II was going up the hill after the com
= pletion of the frst lap that the Cornell
men began picking their way up toward
I the front, for II will be noticed that at The
: end of the first lap they did not look like
Il | winners rhc ithacans, however, were
u rot worrying about position, they were
l. ! merely out with the Intention to catch ant
I uass IN. man IN front Of them and Il
l. keep on doing that Intil they had no more
~ Ia pass. That they succeeded fairly vel