New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
KOlehmainen Fails to Start
in Race, While Kramer
Quits After 3 Miles.
IRISH-AMERICAN AND
NEW YORK CLUBS TIE
Team HonOrs Equally Divided
Between Rival Organizations
Sid Leslie Second.

national cross country championship over
the Van Cortlandt Park course i'm i'm
pressive style yesterday afternoon. Kiviat
led the field by more than 100 yards in
SO minutes and 80 seconds. His time was
almost eighteen seconds slower than that
made by Hannes Kolehmainen in the
senior metropolitan championships three
weeks ago, but in the last lap. and more
particularly in the last mile he ran on
his own pace. with no one TO urge him
10 greater speed. Sid Leslie, the junior
national and metropolitan champion. was
second, while Tom Barden. OF the Irish
American Athletic Club. was third. some
forty or fifty yards behind the Long Isl
and lad.
While the individual honors fell to
Kiviat, the Irish-American Athletic club
and the New York Athletic Club We're
tied for team honors. with 80 points. This
is the first time within recollection that
two teams have tied for the point trophy
in a NATIONAL 'cross-country champion
ship. There were many who declared
that the inability of Hannes Kohelmainen
TO start accounted for the tie. The won
derful little Finn pulled up lame after run
ming race on Thanksgiving Eve. and
rather than risk a permanent breakdown
Lawson Robertson, coach OF the Irish
American Athletic Club, refused TO allow
him TO compete.
William J. Kramer. OF the Long Island
Athletic Club, the champion. and winner
Of three of the last four races. quit after
81 iUh
No one learned just why Passing the
checkers at the three-mile mark. Kramer
was running strongly, with a free, easy
stride, only a couple Of feet behind Leslie
and Barden. who carried the pack along
at a merry clip. He was in no apparent
distress, but 10 the surprise of the spec
ators he pulled up and dropped out just
as the pack swung into the second lap OF
their grilling journey.
In winning the race Kiviat proved once
more that he is one of the greatest and
most versatile runners in this country. AL
though he has run his best races at dis
tanceS up to and including two miles.
there were comparatively few, and those
few confined 10 his friends and admirers
who believed him capable of winning the
grind over the hills and across the rough
roads.
From the start Kiviat stuck right TO
the leaders, running easily. and crossed
the line sprinting strongly. and compare
lively fresh while the crowd applauded
and the moving picture machines clicked
away merrily.
Promptly at o'clock the starting gun
doomed out, and the national champion
ship race was on in earnest The fact
that only one man representing an out
of-town club was running detracted not a
whit from the interest of the contest.
and several thousand spectators wer,
stretched along the course. Twenty-eight
men OF the original thirty-six entrants
aced the mark.
Dashing down the green in helter-
skelter fashion. the pack got OFF well
punched and disappeared around the
corner that led 20 the steep hill up and
over the golf links. 1t was on this same
hill that the result Of the race was fore
cast, in a measure. In single file the
runners climbed. Kiviat Leslie. Barden
and Kramer almost treading on one an
others heels as they made the pace.
Some Of the less hardy dropped back into
the ruck and were not seen in a promi-
nent place
As the runners gained the crest Of the
incline and ran along Aqueduct avenue
Kramer heightened out his stride and
took command Of the situation. There
was little significance in the move, for
practically any Of the first eight or nine
men might have done the same without
drawing a squirt from the others. Only
few yards separated the leaders, and
they were content 10 follow a competent
guide. Running in the ruck, however,
was not 10 the liking OF Barden, and
after a short while he moved up, followed
by Leslie and Kviat Kramer was will
ing enough for TO all appearances he was
running well within himself and did not
fear the outcome.
In the meanwhile few Of the men in
the rear gained their second wind and
closed up on the leaders. First among
these was Fred Bellars. the veteran Of
the New York Athletic Club, and, striding
along easily he came up 10 within strik-
ing distance. He never quite goh up 10
assume the lead, but was among the first
four or 1--WE.
As the men came down the incline to
the baseball fields Leslie was seen leading
by about fifteen yards, with Barden, sec
ond; Kramer, third; Kiviat, fourth, ana
Fred Bellars about fifty yards back, but
gaining a little. In that order the pack
swung past the crowd at the end OF the
first lap. O'Connor, Of the New York
club Roth. OF the Mohawks. and Exc, OF
'he lrish-Amsricans, came along. running
on their heels and apparently tired.
With Kramer out of the race. the task
OF keeping the pack hustling fell 10 XIV
lat. Leslie and the untiring Barden. None
shrked his part Of the work. First one
and then the other held forth for brief
periods. while the weaker brothers
cropped further and further into the ruck.
All those who trailed on the first lap,
however. were not TO be counted out Of the
running
After clawing their way up the grass
over the golf links and Strengthening out
Tor the long drill up Aqueduct avenue
Honohan, Of the New York A. c., and
nyronen, competing unattached, moved
up' closing the gap between themselves
ana the leaders at every jump. GoinS
over the rough roads leading back to the
soi links they seemed TO feel the effects
their effort and were unable 10 gain
"hy more ground. Masterson. OF the New
iork a. C., was another to gain ground In
we iast lap. Apparently out Of the race
me first lap, running in twentieth