The New York herald., 1922-11-27
Columbia and Princeton Are
! Looked For to Win Team
Competition.
HIGGINS IS FAvoR1TE
McLane Of Penn Conceded the
Best Chance Against Blue
and White Star.

Not in many years have so many
evenly balanced teams Tired up in the
Intercollegiate cross-country cham-
Honship, the fourteenth annual run
under the auspices Of the I. c. A. A.
A. A., and stAe twenty-third ever held,
which will be contested over the Van
, Cortlanft Park course this afternoon.
Eighteen leading colleges have entered
teams. for the title chase, and at least
a half dozen aggregations are accorded
a good chance to run away with the
team prize. One of the greatest cross
country battles in the history Of the
four "a" association is in prospect.
ThAas struggle for individual honors
among 2S7 entries also looms as an
open one. Walter Higgins, the Columbia
intercollegiate two mile title holder. Is
the popular favorite to win the cham
pionship. but there are several con-
tenders who do not look like the easiest
sort Of opposition. Among them are
Bob Hendrie, M. 1. T. captain, who won
the New England intercollegiates
week ago yesterday; Harold Il. Dyke
man of Carnegie Tech, winner of the
Syracuse invitation run, and +. c. Nc
Lane, Penn sophomore. Other promi-
nent runners mentioned are Capt. Young
OF Dartmouth, Capt Conger and Cor
don OF Princeton. Capt. L. B. Kirby OF
Cornell Bob Moore. Columbia leader.
and Smith and Gordon Of Syracuse.
Higgins fears McLanes most in spite
OF the fact that Dykeman led the local
,1,-$ o. <t,o+ 90 In, ha r,ft
Higgins has pursued the crown for
three years In 1920 he was beaten by
seconds by Johnny Romig Of Penn
State.
McLane Primed for Title.
Coach Lawson Robertson has primed
McLane for the title. Some assert that
the Penn youngster would have beaten
Higgins in the quadrangular affair II he
had been acquainted with the route. He
missed several short cuts and Travelled
many more yards than the others as a
result.
Nal Douglas Of Yale. winner Of the
two mile race with oxford and Cam
bridge in the summer OF 1921. Is the
Blues chief entry. Douglas Is best
across-country and should give a good
account Of himself
Cornell, for once. is conceded only n
slim chance Of taking the team title.
The Ithacans have captured seventeen
Of the twenty-five races, ten OF them
in a row from 1902 to 1911. inclusive.
frhe favorites. In point OF well balanced
outfits. are Columbia and Princeton.
The Tigers beat M. I. r., and In tri-
angular meet took the measure Of Yale
and Harvard.
Columbia has an impressive record
only one race was lost. Cornelfs team
winning the Syracuse rum The Blue
and White defeated Cornell, Penn and
Dartmouth easily in their Quadrangular
meet won the metropolitan champion
ship over all Of the local colleges. and
trounced Rutgers in dual meet.
Columbia Has Hest Team.
Columbia has the best team In its
history. The Blue and White has never
won either the team or individual
crown. It's representatives will be Hig
gins. Moore. Brennan, Skeats. Schmid
and Riker. Penn has a good trio In
McLane, bod Head and Kerr. Cornell.
although inexperienced will be watched
for the reason that Moakleys charges
arc always dangerous.
The six mile varsity race will start
at s: 10 p. M. II will be preceded by
the third annual freshman run of three
miles, for which thirteen colleges have
nominated teams. This Is the second
consecutive year that the race has been
held over the local course, which has been
named the permanent scene OF the event
Five of the six miles will be over level
grass and bride paths. with, q few
hurdles and brush barrier thrown In.
The varsity entries are Bates. Bow
doin. Carnegie Tech. Colby. C. c. NJ Y.
Columbia, Cornell. Dartmouth. Harvard
Maine, Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, New York University. Penn
state. Pennsylvania, Princeton. Rutgers.
Syracuse and Yale.
The freshman entries are c. c. NJ Y,
Cornell. Harvard, Lafayette, Maine.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
New York University. Penn State. Penn
eylvania. Princeton. Rutgers. Syracuse
and Yale.
Gustavus II. Kirby. chairman OF the
Advisory Board OF the I. Q. A. A. A A.,
will referee tho meet. and will be as
sisted by John T. McGovern OF Cornell
Abbot Southall Of Columbia Is manager
OF the run.