Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-16
BRIEF REVIEW OF
 LAST YEARS SPORTS

of Boston crowned himself cross country chamIsionship last year. He won the 10-mile national championship in the third fastest time for the dis tance over the Brooklyn Athletic field track and shortly afterwards cap tured the senior national houors over the Van Cartlandt Park course.
 Taller was also a conspicuous fig ure in the Inter-Allied and A. E. r. championship games overseas. In the Inter Allied contests Taller fin ished well up in both the cross -coun- try and 10000 meter run and won the A. E.. F. cross ss-country honors by more than five minutes from his Am erican rivals.
 Team honors across country went to Syracuse University and the indi- vidual star among its ranks was John
 Simmons, who is also junior national
 champion at the mile. distance. Less than two weeks later the Sy-
 racuse boys came down to compete in the junior natonal A. A. U. cross country championship run over the strenuous Van Cortlandt Park course both the team and individual honors. Simmons thereby won his third prize of the season.
 CornelFS SurPrISe. In track and field sports among the colleges Cornell University, much to the surprise. of the athletic world, re- gained its prestige in no uncertain manner. At the relays records for
 both the meet and America were broken, with the colleges from the West, particularly Michigan, more than holding their own. The Cor | nellians won the four-mile relay the 1 most gruelling event on the program. with Ivan Dresser capturing the in- dividual honors.
 1 Among the stars of this meet was Sol Butler, the Dubuque College ne 1 gro, who is unquesti0nably the great
 est all-around athlete now registered ! among the college ranks After cap- l turing the running broad jump over 1 the 24 foot mark. Butler, without three minutes to catch his breath, won the
 100-yard dash. In the American Pen I tathlon championship, which was held 1 on the first day of the meet on Fri 1 day Robert Le Gendre of Georgetown
 a New England boy, won the five event test, with total of A points
 James F. Bartels, winner of the title
 last year, was second with 20 points. Cornell sprang surprise by win ming the championship in the Inter- 1 collegiate games at Cambridge. Ii
 was believed that Cornel was experi encing lean year in track and field sports and therefore was not consid i cred to have a strong chance for the title. However, Fate. played an i'm
 portant part to its advantage when i Frank Shea, University of Pittsburg the quartermile champion. and Carl Erdman, Princeton were both taken | i'll.
 Mayer Starred for Cornell.
 This made Cornell the favorite to
 defeat Penn, which had previously
 ruled prohibitive favorite. Walker
 Smith and John Watt. the two hurdI- ] CTS played an important part in Cor ] nells victory, but their efforts did not 1 equal the two unexpectedly brilliant
 performances. of Mayer. former Boys High runner. Smith won both the | 120 and 22o yard hurdles. Mayer 1 then added the half-mile in minute 56 25- seconds and the quarter-mile i in the sparkling time of 49 4-5 sec- onds
 Dresser accounted for the only new Intercollegiate record of the year when he won the two mile run for Cornell in i g minutes P 2-5 seconds, displacing I the former best figures of John Hoff- mire. also of Cornell, of minutes l z0 4-0 seconds.
 l All this enabled Cornell to win. the team competition with 391s points.
 with Pennsyvania second with 29 and Michigan, through the all-round work 1 of Carl Johnson, third. with 25b l points. Johnson was the biggest point l scorer of the meet when he won the
 running broad jump with g feet 111 1 inches. finished in a tie for second
 place in the running high jump and
 second in the 100" sprint. | Baseball.
 1 Players who participated in all tht
 games played by their clubs numbered four: Daubert, Cincinnati. 40: Cut.
 shaw, Pittsburgh. 139; Hornsby, St i Louis, and Lllrerus Philadelphia, 13s each. BoeclSel played in 140 games
 with Pittsburgh 45. and with Boston 95. Olson, Brooklyn, 140 out of IA, games.
 Fred Luderus. Philadelphia, hold.
 the record for consecutive games, 533 1 Consecutive hitting during seaso,
 was a run of 1s by Southwortf1. Pitts
 burgh. started May 26, closed June F 1 During the past season there wer,
 used by all the clubs SIT "tpinch hit
 ters" and 127 "pinch runners" Schulz
 St. Louis went to bat as a pinch hit 1 fer 3 Hines. Club using most nun her of 'pinch litters," St. Louis. 1O4. l they also used fhe greatest number O
 pinch runners" 27.
 Il Olson, Brook1vn. has the mos tsfiroeS af -ha'f' 5qn