New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-17
ROB CRAWFORD
APPEARS TO BE
SECOND KIvIAT
Flushing Schoolboy Wins
Four 'Cross-Country Con
tests This Season

-.u local schoolhoy star has ap-
- q, the horizon in Robert l..
.rf,r8 o. Flushing High School, q
Nle'-..,-.v ear-old boy, whose per
~,e..-.ss over the steepest hill and
i.o.,i.courses during the last season have
esSS.5 athletic followers Of the East.
.s., besrectacled youths feats stamp
- &c promising successor 20 Abel
rs~ist +hc former amateur Of the
!h-.p-Amer,car Athletic Club. also pro
80 by a.. Public Schools Athletic
.--e % this city. kivist jumped
. 20 ,-o-,ircnce by winning both the
800 and ore-mlle outdoor school
- rbs~p.onship races in one after
" h record time IN 1912. and later
s.s.,ors8 mo ore Of the best middle
I,.s,.e runners in the world. Crsw-
80 tas fyc successive 'croSs-country
..S..o-.es 90 rfs credit this season.
re F,ash Nc youth is rsngy, with q
....ofb -u~-.rc stride and is good
80, a. PACE After competing fer
vesrs. Crawford won the one-mile
.~,sco- championship LAST year. How
- /. was not until this season that
,-iovsd most success sgsinst his
.v,i. WEI ne help Of Ike Messer, =
,,-rer Flushing graduate, Crawford
:" trained over the Long Island ILLS
- rsir speed Credit for his quick
~ into the limelght is due 70 tho
.re.5 SCI o. Messer In these practice
rgps
Begins with Cornell Meet
Crawford began his series % sue
,,s,es by ou.footing S large field Of in.
,,-,eholsst.c runners In the event held
~ Corrsl University over its steep
siu, surrounding Ithaca. Two miles
al from the start, the ninety runners
r.r. con PEELED % test their stamina
aver hills Toy about two miles. Ii was
, .,rrifc strain. but Crawford was one
~ The three runners that did not walk
m the miniature mountain. He held
,t. var 80 all stages, completing the
,sree s7c 2 half miles in the fine time
~ 70 minutes. IS seconds. His team
Estes secured fourth place out Of g
f,ld Of fifteen school teams.
Then followed his hard and thrilling
fsbt with Allen Swede, OF Meroersburg
I,soe~y. .r the Columbia Cniversity
M OF three and a quarter miles. u
vas sr.7 and tuck issue, but Crsw-
FORD jumped away In the closing 100
vsr6s. 90 win by a fair margin m
20 minutes. 10 seconds. Again the
Trsh,rc team was fourth in the point
competition. Crswford's third victory
Vas 10 tho championship run for
Queens County schools, when he led -
Al tines % win by So seconds, in IL
minutes. seconds. The course OF tive
and eight-tenths miles was laid out
sver nscsdamized roads. with hill 70
,lirb twice. The Flushing team won
"a first title I'm this race.
Crawford then paid his own way 70
Philadelphia 20 compete IN the inter
sebolss'ic run OF four and a half miles
nd bv the University Of Pennsylvania.
lrsin he Was called upon 20 meet
Ssede. the Mercersburg student, but
proved the speedier in another stride
.or.strIde contest 20 win IN y minutes
e. seconds. Swede was second. NO
Flushing team took part IN TINS con
ust g. the general organization OF the
school refused TO pay the railroad ell
t,rse However, when Crawford re
umed the victor the sthleuc oody
1..ed q special meeting, and by virtue
% h.s victory Crawford travelling
nozey was returned.
Crav ford's Greatest Triumph
The greatest triumph of Crawford
tsne when he defeated 3 field Of l3S
,vrners In winning the championship
teld over the stiff Van Cortlsndt PARK
course. Conditions we're severe, ice,
MUD and snow covering the ground, but
the Flushing school student won de
esively by g margin OF 100 yards. His
teammates captured the point honors,
but only after close battle with Rich
uond Hi. High School.
Poor marx rg out Of the course cost
Crawford much valuable ground IN TINS
rtce. As he descended from Mosholu
PARKWAY down INTO a ravine there were
10 Tags in evidence 20 mark on the
Trail Consequently Crawford turned
erroneousy 'o his left. and before he
nsd retrseed bus steps his rivals we're
only ten var1 behind. He had lost
twenty-five seconds through the care
.sssrsss o. the officials. However, when
On the right path again Crawford
lsngthered his stride 20 cover the two
and hslf miles over the hazardous
ground In the especially fast time OF 10
minutes 25 seconds
Will Join lrish-Amerioan
AZ his victories over interscholastio
runners increased a grand scramble en-
sued between club and college coaches
70 add Crawford 20 their track team. He
ass declined an invitations, declaring
that le will Join the colors of the
lrsh-Americsn Athletic Club in recog-
milton OF the help given by Messer. &
member when the proper time arrives.
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