New-York tribune., 1920-12-12
Cornell Team
Sails This Week
To Run Abroad
Championship Runners to
Meet Oxford and Cam
bridge Athletes Dec. p
By Jack Masters


When the Aquitania points her PROV
in the general direction of the West
ern Hemisphere next Tuesday morn
ing the most important athletic inva-
sion of Europe since the Olympic
games will be officially inaugurated,
for the big liner will carry the cham
pionship Cornell cross-country team,
which is ito meet the representatives
of Oxford and Cambridge at Roehamp-
ton, near London, on December q.
The American team, in cnarge of
Coach Jack Moakley, Manager E. j.
Bailey and John P McGovern, will be
composed of the following seven har-
riefs, who recently won the Intercol-
leglate title for the upstate Univer-
slty: Thomas c. McDermott, Charles
c. Carter, Howard V. Bonsal, Norman
+. Brown, II. E. Brown, Captain James
l.. Dickinson and Milton f. Richmond.
as an international meeting, but as a
courtesy TO Cornell, in appreciation of
the hospitality by the university COM
munity to the British athletes who
competed in the Pennsy .vanla relay
carnival. CornelI's victory in the
American championships gives the
meeting the flavor of contest be-
tween the best distance runners Of
two countries.
The race will be held over the
Thames Hare and Hounds Glub course,
distance of about sixN miles, and
Moakleys boys will leave in the best
condition of their youthful careers,
having trained for the past eight
weeks over specially prepared course
near Ithaca
A farewell demonstration for the
Red and White barriers will be given
tomorrow evening by the Corner.
alumni Of, this city. Some of the
creates. distance runners in the his
tory of the sport will be present.
Among them will be John Paul Jones,
Intercollegiate record holder for the
mile run and Tell Berna, whose mars
of 9:17 4-5 still stands as the Amerl
can record for two miles.
Jackson Schols, the University of
Missouri sprint star, who won the To-
yard dash at The games Of the Millrose
A. A. last year, has wired his entry
for this event, which Will be contested
at the NJ. A. A. meet in Madison Square
Garden on February 8. SchoIz finished
fifth in the l00-mcter race at Antwerp
and was a member of the team which
broke the worlds record for the 400
meter relay.
Max Bohland, two-mile metropolitan
champion, and Andy Craw, former title
holder. Will start from scratch in the
/ l2 mile handicap, which will feature
the games of the 18th Regiment, to be
held Friday evening at the homa Of the
Coast Defense Command, Brooklyn.
Eddie Mayo, the Brooklyn A. A. star
who recently joined Captain Joe Hard
meyers command, viii also toe the
mark IN THIS race.
The James &. Sullivan Officials Clu6
held its annual meeting u; the 7lsc
Regiment Armory last night and re-
elected its former officers for the fiscal
year. They are: Herman Obertubes-
sing. president; George p. Matthew'S,
e-prcsident; Charles Ebert. secre-
ry-trcasurer, and William Arenhoii,
corresponding secretary.
The national Indoor track and ield
championships OF the \. A {. WI be
held on March 10 at the I'D Reglm eut
Armory, it was announced Yesterday.
Cipp Shows Little Change.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. Dec. Il -rhe
condition of George Cipp, Notte
Dame football player, suffering from
a throat Infection, renamed IN
changed this morning, according %
hospital authorities. Gipp rallied yes
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