New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-16
Leads Pack Home Over Van
CortIandt Park Course in
Record Time.
SURPRISE AS KRAMER QUITS
He Fails to Give Finn Expected
Battle - Irish American
Runners Capture the
Team Championship.

throughout the entire course. names
Kolehmainen. the wonderful distance run
nor of the Irsh-American Athletic Club'
easily captured the senior metropolitan
'cross-country championship run held over
the Van Cortlandt Park course OF SIX
miles yesterday. Fighting his way
through a narrow lane of spectators, the
Olympic hero broke the tape with 200
ward advantage in the unprecedented time
Of q minutes 80 3-5 seconds, which i'm
proved the time in the junior event last
saturday by more than a minute. Second
honOrs went to sydney l.. Leslie, or the
Long Island Athletic Club. winner Of the
Junior title last week. Russell Spring
steen. who was runner-up TO Leslie in the
Junior contest. trailed home in third posi-
ton. close TO Leslie. George +. Holden,
also of the Yonkers association, who, with
his clubmate went after the individual
title. was close behind Sprngsteen for
fourth position.
The Irish-Amercan Athletic Club re-
peated its victory Of last year by captur-
ing the team trophy. The Celt club took
first. third. fourth, fifth and sixth posi-
tons. and in totalling the low score of ~
3 points. The Winged Foot representa-
tives surely ran well together foiloWihs
in order from the seventh to the eleVehIh
position for count Of 40 points. Inc
Long Island Athletic Club was third, WIN
70 points, while the Bronx Church ltouse'
the only other team competing. was III '"e
ruck, with 10 points.
The five thousand or more spectators
who found advantageous positions near
the finish were prepared to witness
bitter struggle between William Kramer
and Kolehmainen, but the former could
not follow the Firms killing pace. IRA
mer showed the way for almost TWO
miles by a slight margin, but thereafter
ne had TO take the pace of the speedie'
foreigner. After apparently turning the
1rst lap In splendid condition Kramer re-
.ired from the contest one hundred yards
further on Kramer had captured the
senior metropolitan title for the last
three successive years and the senior
national for two seasons, and when he
Quit il was a severe blow 20 his club
mates. who had bet heavily on him
Harry Smith, the former ten-mile cham
cumbed to the pace in the final stretch
of the first lap and stopped. Six run
ners failed to finish.
Although the local association had
taken pains to avoid q repetition Of last
weeks scene Of the crowd surglng to-
gether at the finish, the spectators could
not be controlled, and the scene was dis
graceful. Ropes were strung along
twenty-five feet apart. for one hundred
yards each way of the turn, and although
several mounted policemen and several
afoot, aided by the officials, attempted to
keep the crowd in check they found the
task beyond them
James +. Sullivan who acted as referee
was justly. indignant at the behavior OF
the spectators and threatened to hold
the contests in an inclosed park in the
future if the same rowdy conditions were
apparent at the intercollegiate cham
pionship run next Saturday. When
the runners entered the final 1OO-yard
stretch there was barely room for them
to fight their way through. So eager
were the enthusiasts TO see Kolehmainen
finish that they drove him out Of the
course
TO prevent any Of the rumored bodily
harm that has been threatened koleh-
mainen, Lawson Robertson. coach OF the
Irisb-American Athletic Club, had a
squad of thirty club members stretched
along the three-mile course TO catch any
evdoers.
The field kept well together for the
first half mile, but as the field reachea
the summit of the golf links hill ana
turned into Mosholu Parkway at the one
mile point, Kramer had assumed inc
lead. with Kolehmainen a few yards be-
hind. and was setting a brisk pace TOT
the Finn. Kolehmainen was running
well within himself, and at the two-mlie
point he challenged Kramer for the lead
and took il after spirited lW-yaru
brush. From there the Finn led the
field. and as he swung INTO the home
stretch in easy fashion, TO complete the
first lap i'm the record time or 10 MN
utes q seconds, he was roundly cheered'
Kramer followed some fifty yards behind
and Springsteen, Leslie and kiviat, VINO
were punched, were some twenty yards
away. Harry Smith decided to stop
when in ninth place before the END OIL
the first lap, while it was like a BOND
from the sky when Kramer suddenly
stopped soon after the turn. Kolehmaln-
en- was soon notified that his bitter OPP
ponent had retired, and thereafter ne
seemed contented with a pace that would
merely keep him in the lead.
The summaries follow:
Nm, and cluh Time.