Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-22
MANY ENTRIES FOR
MEET IN BROOKLYN
Diocesan Union Games Will
Bring Out Many Stars
Tonight.
COLLEGE X-COUNTRY TO-DAY

Records may be smashed tonight
at the Thirteenth Regiment Armory,
where the Diocesan Union will hold
its first annual games. That a record
| crowd will see the contests is evil
denced by the fact that several
thousand tickets have been sold. The
entry is also record one. When
counted up last night the tally sheet
showed that sos athletes would COM
pete in the different events.
William l.. Jones. the well-known
amateur sport follower, Is no longer
chairman of the athletic committee
of the Irish-American A. c. Jones
resigned some time ago, but 1t has
only just become public. Important
business engagements is given as the
cause for JoneSs retirement 1t was
said, however, that he is still q men,
Der of the club.
Kramer and Leslie will not start
in the two-mile run at the games of
the Diocesan Union tonight.
Kiviat Flynn and Hedlund should
make athletic history In the two
mile run at the Diocesan Union
6oihCH AOhiBhAs
With Melvin Sheppard In the 300
yard scratch race and Ted Meredith
In the three-quarter-m scratch
event at the Thirteenth Regiment
AImory tonight the fans should see
some real sprinting.
Hannes Kolehmainen will not be
starter In the twelve-mile race which
will be staged by the Mercury A. G.
on Thanksgiving Day.
Cornell is the favorite for the inter-
collegiate cross-country championship
run over the national course at Van
Cortlandt Park, New York, today.
Fourteen teams, representing Brown,
Columbia College, of the city of New
York: Colgate, Cornell, Dartmouth,
Harvard. Massachusetts Institute Of
Technology, Pennsylvania State Col
lege, University of Michigan. Prince
ton. University OF Pennsylvania and
Yale, will toe the mark at the start,
which Is to be at o'clock on the
parade grounds in front II the old
Van Cortlandt manor house.
r. Erlandsen, a member of the
Glencoe Athletic Club, finished first
last night in the weekly road race
of the Union Settlement Athletic
Club, New York, outrunning a field
of fifteen starters, and crossing the
line In 1885, three seconds ahead Of
T. Maroney, club mate, who was
second. The race was held over a
course which measured three and
one-half miles, and all of the fifteen
starters finished.
4. -
ate championship cross-country race
there was a great influx of collegians
into New York last night. each uni
verslty nominated having brought the
| flower of its distance running
strength In the endeavor to lift the
hill and dale titles, both individual
| and team.
The Hotel Cumberland has pro-
vided quarters for more than thisd
of the prospective triers for the hon
ors, where Dartmouth, Cornell, SYRIA
| cuse, Brown and Penn State have
/ their pennants shown in the foyer of
the building. Harvard. under the
membership of Alfred Shrubb, who
aided in the winning of the event
| last year, when the Crimson cap
| tured the team title from Cornell,
are quartered at the McAlpin, while
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology lads are guests of the Tech
nology Club. Yale and Princeton
will arrive this morning.
Among close observers 1t is believed
that today's event will be the closest
ever held among the colleges. There
is no runner of the John Paul Jones
| TUNE h,tf IN tho uhnIa anch of fba
| teams is said to be we'll balanced.
Harvard's best man Is probably the
captain, r. st. B. Boyd, who will be
| supported by a strong field of run
ners. Cornell will show without their
best man, Porter, but in Hoffmire
and McCotrick the Ithacans say they
will be heard from at the end.