Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-24
|THACANS UPHOLD
THEIR TRACK TITLE
Cornell Triumphs Over Harvard
in intercollegiate Cross
Country Race.
LATEST ATHLETIC GOSSIP

The intercollegiate cross country
race at Van Cortlandt Park Satur-
day over a six-mile course was won
by the Cornell team, with low total
of slxty-eight, while the individual
honors went to Harvard when r. St.
b. Boyd carried the crimson across
the line in front of the large pack of
barriers in "a minutes and 81 seconds.
The Harvard team took second hon.
ors in the race with a total o ninety
two points.
j. S. Hoffmire was the first of the
Comedians to make his way over the
finish line. He was in second place,
about 100 yards behind the leaders.
How well the individual places were
scattered about is shown by the fact
that Hoffmire was the only Ithacan
to finish in the first ten. McCurdy, of
Penn, finished third. Harvard and
Pennsylvania each had two men
among the select, while Princeton,
Dartmouth, Brown, Yale and Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology each
had one representative In the front.
! Princeton, Pennsylvania and Yale
rooters put much faith in their teams,
only to be disheartened by the fact
that they finished fifth, fourth and
eighth, respectively.
Reward p. Drew, of Springfield,
Mass, equaled a worlds indoor
record in winning the 130-yard dash
at the Brooklyn Diocesan Union of
Catholic Young Mems Societies games
In the Thirteenth Regiment Armory
Saturday night. His time was 12m.
4-5s. Robert Cloughen established
the mark on the same surface two
years ago. Olympic and national and
Metropolitan distance champions
competed in the special dash, and
Drew was in the lead from the start.
More than two yards separated the
fleet negro from Alvah Il. Meyer, of
the irish american A. c., who fin
ished second; Hal" Holland, of the
Xavier A. c., was third.
A two-mile special had Oscar J..
Hedlund, of the Boston A. A.; Abel
II. Kiviat, of the Irish American A.
c., and Pat" Flynn, an eighteen
year-old athlete from Ireland, who
was competing for the first time in
this country, on board floor. He'd
lund dropped out at a mile and q
quarter and Kiviat finished alone,
half lap ahead of Flynn, covering
the last mile of the race in Am. As 2-5s.
His time for the two miles, ON.
80 Abs, lowered the old mark held by
William j. Kramer, of Long Island
A. c., by Abs.
The barriers of the New York Ath-
letic Club nosed out the representa-
tives of the Mohawk Athletic Club by
single point In the battle for the
point trophy in the open six-mile
handicap road run of the Pastime
Athletic Club, held in the Bronx, yes
terday. The Winged Feet" men fin
ished in second, fourth, eleventh,
eighteenth and twenty-third positions,
giving them a total of 5S points. The
Mohawk men captured first, sixth,
twelfth and thirteenth positions, but
its fifth member finished way back in
twenty place, for count of
So points. The Glencoe Athletic Club
was third with 1916; Royalton Athletic
Club of West New York, fourth, with
149; Glencoe Trinity Club of Brook
Ign, fifth, with ISL.
Aaron Morris, of the Smart Set A.
G. of New York, cleverly captured
the initial four-mile road run con-
Quoted by the Smart Set Athletic Club
yesterday. Morris assumed command
at the one-mile post and beat home
his nearest competitor, Hale, of the
Kings County A. A., by about 300
yards.