New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-15
FOCEL ROMPS TO
VICTORY IN BIG
JUNIOR TITLE RUN
Defeats GianakopulOs for
Championship Over Van
COrtlandt Course.
JRISH-AMERICANS
TAKE TEAM PRIZE
Bronx Church House Quintet in
Second Place, Beating Out
Mohawk and Columbia.

A. J. Fogel, Of the Irish-American
A. c., finishing strongly, won me an
nual Junior 'cross-country champion
ship of the metropolitan district az
Van Cortlandt Park yesterday IN the
/ good time Of BAIL for the SIX miles.
| More than 200 yards in his rear came
Nick Gianakopulos, the big EreeH' "ho
sports the colors Of the Alllrose a. -
/ Last wear Fogel finished in eleventh
place. A., Vail
A G. finished a good third, with r
yuma. of the American A. T., ana
/ r do Stefano, of the Ozanam A. A.
clinching fourth and fifth places, re
snectiyely. The next dozen runners
| finished we'll together.
/ Lawson Robertson, the Irish-Amer-
can A. c. coach, was the happlest man
/ on the course after the race, ior ms
team. composed Of T. Zuna, |. Messer,
7 Gafney, W. Fogel and ". CALVIN,
| finished in first place, with a score OF
40 points, beating out by points tne
pronx Church House quintet tnat
| Harry Smith, the coach, had hgurea l"
win.
The Mohawk A. C.'s runners hnished
in third place for team honors, WIN
SO points, and then came the Columbia
University hill and dale men IN tourtn
place, with 121 points. The game
fight made by the college students 10
big victory for Bernie Wefers, the NeW
York A. c. coach, who had only two
months in which TO prepare ouhen
OF novices for the gruelling test.
Six Of the first seven men 70 nnlsn
ran as individuals, and their enors
/ IN tho team score. Lurd,
of the Winged Fist aggregation, finish
ING in fourth place, was the hrst team
man to cross the finish line. =,
r Springsteen, of the Yonkers I. d.
e. A.. who was figured by many as tne
logical winner of the race, was forcea
~ ouit after running in the lead FOR
two miles and a half. Fogel and Clan
akonuIos ran neck and neck until they
annroached the long hill, three-quar-
ters of a mile from the finish. Inc
little Irish-American runner let OUT
hurst of speed at that point that leit
the big Greek yards behind, and a.
Fogel walked across the finish line
NICK was lust coming into sight under
the railroad trestle, some ZOO yaraS
away. -ooo
was strung out on both sides Of the
starting line when John J. MchGgh' tne
starter, fired the pistol that set the
sixty-seven athletes in notion, mar 4
milo from the starting point, where the
trail led m the steep hill over the
Golf course, there were more thousands,
ard others were spread out along
Nosholu ay. and from there TO the nm
ish line.
The course yesterday was several de-
crees sitter than the route over Wnlcn
the race was run last year. There was,
only a brief stretch Of macadamlZed
road on Mosholu av., with the rest or
the course partly through woodland
pathways and open fields. IL speaks
we'll for the calibre of the large feld
that fifty-six men crossed the hnlsn
line. A..
B. Masterson, OF the Mohawk Ath-
letic Club, went out into the lead az
tho start. but ne was soon succeeded by
Springsteen, who seemed 10 be running
easily A mile from the start how
ever, Fogel and Gianakopulos began n
move up and soon had the field strung
> out behind them.
, Then a gruelling struggle for the lead
began. with Nick holding the lead BY
a scant ward as they reached the half
: wav point. Honohan, Zuna, De Stef-
ano. Travelena and Stack trailed
along in the rear some eignty or ninety
yards back. ,.,
q The positions OF the leading ten did
: not change much during the second lap
of the course, although Fogel and his
Greek rival continued 20 draw further
away from the pack as they began the
! last mile Of the race.
Nearing the finish, however, Fogel
! began trying out Nick's strength by
] successive sprints, and these proved 10
! him that the giant Greek was falter.
ing. The slender Fogel made his bid
D lust at the start of the winding path
through the woods that mask the hill
at the head of thel axe. Lengthenlng
his stride, the Irish-American runner
: opened up wide gap and raced along
= on winged feet to the hnish.
Gianakopulos was laboring as he
flung himself across the finish line, bu,
ne led Honohan by about eighty yards
with the latter scant fifty yards
ahead Of Zuna.
The first twenty-five men TO finish
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