The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-28
Comedians Are
 Practicing For
 Race M England

Ithaca, N. r.. November 27-(Special) Refreshed by few days rest after q ] rather strenuous eight weeks of train ing, which, eliminated last Saturday in
 their winning the intercollegiate cross- country championship, CornelPs harriers
 were called out again today by Coach Jack Moakley and practice for the com ing cross-country meet in England with team os Oxford and Cambridge stars is under way.
 A team of seven Cornellians, in charge of Coach Moakley. will sail from New York on December 14 on the Aquatania to meet the representative runners of the two great English universities on the course of the Thames Hare and Hounds club at Rochampton, near Lon don, England, on December 2.
 Although the race was not arranged IS an international meeting, but as a cour- tesy to Cornellians, in appreciation of the hospitality extended last spring by Ge university community to the Oxford and Cambridge athletes wno came over to compete in the Pennsylvania relay car 2itel, SOEutil ISCenJ VlCJoTy 1n the ln- | tercollegiaate championship race gives l to the coming meeting the flavor of a i contest between champion college dis tance runners of the two counties By winning at New Haven last Saturday, the Cornellians won the right to be clas- l sified as truly representative of the best of contemporaneous American college distance runners.
 RACE TO HELP AMERICANS The meet with the English runners is looked forward to by Comedians not only because it should prove an interesting athletic contest. but because of the op- portunity it twill afford to further strengthen the ties of friendship between American and English university stu- dents. Moreover, Jack Moakley, Cor nelfs veteran coach, and the dean of all cross-country and track coaches in America, sees in the meeting an oppor tunity for the advancement of American Icross-country running,
 England. he said today, has been the mother of this great sport. In England 1t has been developed into national pas. time. Valuable lessons are to be learned from this competition with the English runners in their own sport on their na- tive heath, lessons that will inure to the benefit not only of the Cornellians who will take part in the race, but to Amert- S>Au CxoSS-tSuutxy running 8SuSS@Akys
 The Cornell squad now training for this uGeet Is composed of the same men who ran in the championship race Ut New Haven. McDermott N. F. Brown, R. E. Brown, Bonsal. Irish. Dickinson and Laptx. and four others. Carter, Richmann Ward and Morrison. who have been among the leaders in the trials hero this fall
 NEW COURSE BUILT
 Tn order to famliiariss the CornsiiiAns with the type of courss they will covsr in England. a-spscial practice course was laid out hsrs this fall with the Aas.stancc of Ellis schutt. Cornell 'o6, former Rhodes scholar and ons-tims varuity eross-coslntry runner at Oxford. The courss about Ithaca is admirably adapted for such cross-country running n the English pursue. including water jumps, ditches, fsnces, hill and daio. grass land, plowed land. etc. The Cornell Funnsrs have gone over this course on several oc- castcns Ansins the't fail t-~iaies