The sun., 1916-11-26
CORNBLL'S RUNNERS
WIN CR0SS-C0UNTRY
Score 80 Points for Team
Prize-Ovcrton Of Yale In.
dividual Champion.
BIG CROWD SEES RACE

Esw HAVEN, Conn. Nov. 2s.-Corneii
won the intercollegiate cross-country
championship this morning over che
new West Rock cour :. While It's rep
resentatives were rolling up the winning
score Of 81 points Johnny Overton. the
great distance runner Of Yale, was re-
tanning the individual title he captured
last year. lie led che largest pack Of
college distance runners that ever COM
peted for the title and covered the six
and one-half mile route in the fast time
Of IS minutes 80 as seconds.
scant hundred yards behind Over.
ton. Leslie Carroll Of Michigan finished
and a similar distance behind che West
erner tot,ercd home Ezra wenz bear
INK the big "C'' OF Cornell.
Cornell came INTO Its own AGAR and
rsgsined It's title viii, II lost to Maine
last year because It's team was the bes.
balanced Of the field. Ti.re was no
member. however. who was in the same
class with Overton. but all Of them ran
we'll and finished close enough to the
leader to bring to the Ithaca university.
rs fifteenth championship title since TIE
race was inauGurated In 1898.
They were wenx. who finished third.
Dresser NTH. McDermott eighth. Wind
magic ninth and Boynton thirteenth.
Yale's team was h runner up with 80
points. Syracuse was third with liz.
Harvard fourth with i:o: Maine NTH
with 1873, Dartmouth sixth with 133.
Pennsylvania seventh with 40. Prince
ton eighth with ne. Then came Michi.
gan with 1913. Penn State with SO and
College Of the City Of New York last
with 32S.
Race . Spectacular One.
Tho race was the most spectacular
ever held In this city. The field was the
largest and the close brushes and the
nature Of the course gave the big crowd
Of spectators many thrills and plenty
Of opportunity to enthuse. Because
Of the Yale-Harvard football game here
the crimson and blue OF these institu-
tons were the most conspicuous. but
many Of the other institutions were well
represented on the side lines.
Oyerton's victory was anticipated by
followers Of the sport. His victory In
this even. last year and his great per-
formanccs inc then stamped him as
enc Of the best f"l-and-dalers In the
country. And h a he was In his best
conuitloH tnero Wa no uOuOt. fe HhO
trained faithfully for the contest and
Johnny Mack. his trainer. had declared
before the race that he was bet
ter In his caree-.
The big pack went away together. but
before half a mile had been travelled
the big "Y"on Overton's Jersey was seen
amonE the leaders. Another half mile
and II was poking out In front with
The wearer moving along Mt q fast but
steady stride. And from then on the
result was never In Doubt.
Ovevton' Ha Most Speed.
Time and again his opponents chal-
lenged. but all were In vain. The cham
pion possessed more speed. than his op-
ponents and when he crossed the hnisl,
line In front showed little signs of dis
tress.
Carroll Of Michigan ran n good race
Is did wenz. the little fellow who for
lnerly ran in the colors Of Colby College
AS each Of the contestants raced pasi
the judges he was greeted with round
after round of applause by the big crowd
who braved the chill winds to witness
the contest.