New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25
Penn Runners
Lead the Way
In Long Race
Cornell. Last Years Cham
pion. Finishes Second
Dresser Individual Winner
By A. G. Cayagnaro

The University Of Pennsylvania won
its first team victory in the cross
country championship run Of the In
tercollegiste Association Of Amateur
Athletics Of America held over the Van
| Cortlandt Park trail yesterday. The
success of the Red and Blue runners
was . big feather in the cap OF Lawson
Robertson, as this is the first time he
has coached the hill and dale men.
| Penn scored 3S points, Cornell, the
champion, finishing in second place
with IS points. In the ninte.n years
this competition has been held Cornell
has lost only four times. The other
winning institutions have been Yale.
Harvard and Maine.
Columbia was third yesterday. with
| - points, followed by the Mass. Tech.
team with IS and Dartmouth with 96.
c. C. n. Y, the only other starter.
failed 70 have . team Of five runners
at the finish.
The Cornell men on hand found con-
ISOLATION in the fact that they captured
the individual honors through Ne vic
tory Of Ivan c. Dresser, the captain
Of the team. Dresser was by far the
best runner in the race, leading prscti-
cslly all the way. and winning by tho
margin of As seconds. His time for the
six-mile course was $500.
Penn Runner Second
Following far behind Dresser vas
L. L. Glover, Of Penn, with G. J. Half
acre, of Massachusetts, Tech, third;
r. B. McHale, Of Penn, fourth. and G.
c. MeCracken. another Massachusetts,
Tech. runner, fifth.
Harvard and Syracuse shared the
tonors in the freshman race Of three
miles which preceded the varsity fxt-
ure. Captain Dennis o'Connell, Of
Harvard, easily outrsn the field Of
thirty-nine, winning by one hundred
yards In 1912. Syracuse and Harvard
; had Q close tilt for the team title, the
former winning BY 80 10 ~ points.
Billy Queal's Yale team was third, with
., 90 and Pennsylvanis fourth with 81.
There was a slight change In the
course, which was necessitated by the
I. c. A A. A. rules. Part of the run
through the woods behind Noshulu
Parkway was eliminated. A mad
scramble and sprint marked t1e start
Of the freshman race, and when the
summit Of the golf links hill was
reached 0'Connell was In the van. He
swung along at an easy gait, and At the
two.mile point was fifty yards in front
Of John Simons, of Syracuse. with Dom
aid Moona, also Of Syracuse, third.
O'Connell never relinquished his lead.
Simons gave hot chase until the last
hundred yards, when be found that he
could not overtaks O'Connell and
dropped to walk.
Speed and Judgment
The varsity race was q walkover for
Dresser, who had the speed and judg-
ment Of a champion throughout. When
the wire entsnglements were reached
Dresser was in front, with Hslfacre
second, Glover third and McHale
fourth. Dresser put on more speed
soon afterwsrd and was almost 125
yards In front OF Halfacre when he
passed the starting point, thus finish
Ing the first lap Of three miles in 1919.
Dresser lost q little ground mount
ing the golf hill, and when he found
trouble hurdling a wire fence, Glover
managed to pull up within fifty yards
Of him, with Halfacre back in third
position. When once again out on the
maeadamized roads, Dresser increased
his speed and quickly pulled away.
When Dresser crossed the finishing
line Glover had reached the top Of
Cemetery Hill, some two hundred yards