The New York herald., 1922-11-26
Blue and White Will Have
Well Balanced Squad in
Title Race.
MAINE HAS FINE CHANCE
Down East Team Scored I'm
pressive Victory in New Eng
land Championship.
by TED sIEREDITH.

Eighteen colleges will have teams
represented tomorrow afternoon in
the annual intercollegiate cross coun-
try championship over the Van Cort-
hndt Park course. Two hundred and
eighty-seven men have been entered
and will match strides over the six
mile trail. This is a record entry, and
one Of the greatest battles in the his
tory of the event is expected both in
dividually and collectively. Picking
the winner from this group is no easy
task and one that might upset the
best of dope that could be collected.
Columbia. Cornell. PrincetonsM. I. r.,
Pennsylvania and Maine are The teams
that may be pointed to as having q
chance. but with 80 many entries and so
many individual stars running it is next
10 impossible to point to any one OF
them as q winner. II one Is to be gov
erned by performances in the dual meets
Columbia, Cornell Princeton and NJ. I.
II. stand out. Cornell was beaten by
NJ. I. It. in a dual meet early In the sea-
son. The Ithacans later won a race at
Syracuse, beating. among Others, Colum-
bia. blft shortly after this race Columbia
beat Cornell in a four cornered race on
the Van Cortlandt course.
NJ. ]. T., after such fine showing
against Cornell, was beaten by Prince.
ton. and last week was only third in
the New England intelcollegiates. Maine
winning. This is the only race that
Princeton can be figured by, and her
runners will enter the race as the dark
horses.
The best balanced team seems to be.
Columbia Led by Walter Higgins. in
tercollegiate two mile record holder the
saturday In the metropolitan college,
cross country race Columbia won and
finished three men in tie.
Cornell May Surprise.
Cornell must still be feared. as Moak-
ley will bring his runners to the start
primed to uphold the wonderful record
made last year, when three of his men
finished before another college had q
tnan across the line.
Just as keen as the team competition
viii be the individual race. IT can be
pointed out that this year at least four
men are running in exceptional time and
seem very evenly matched. In other
years generally only one or two runners
stood out from the pack.
Columpians are looking for the in
uiyidual title as we'll as the team prize.
They place their faith In Walter Hig-
srisn. not only for his holding the inter-
collegiate two mile title but for his
success all season in dual races Higgins
is the most experienced rnnner in the
race and has madet record time over
the course. He beat Elmer McI.ane OF
Penn in the dual meet by a few yards
and the Penn runner is considered one
OF the best hill and dale runners In the
race. II Higgins falls down Columbia
has Moore. who was third In last years
intercollegiate two mile. Moore is also
running well this year and might be
considered more dependable in cham
pionship competition than Higgins.
VI. ]. T. he's Hendrie. who has won all
nis starts this fall. Last week ne beat
the pack home In the New England in
rercoliegiate hill and dale title race and
N fast time. McKeemsn of Maine was
second to Hendrie and is another good
prospect for first place.
Yale viii be well represented by Nal
Douglas. who Is remembered as the
winner OF the two mile race against Ok
ford and Cambridge In the summer of
1921. when the British collegians had
their dual meet with Harvard and Yale.
Douglss Is a runner OF the Johnny
Overton type and is at his best in cross
country running.
The Cornell team does not have a
tr1an that stands out or has stood out
during the fall. This. however. does not
mean that the Ithacans will all be trail
ing the leaders. Moaxley has had time
since the last dual race to polish off his
material and the Comedians will start
tomorrow much better team than
they have shown to date.
Penn Banks on NcLane.
lawson Robertson. the Penn coach, is
going TO be disappointed II McLane does
not win the individual honors. lie has
worked hard with his sophomore star
and feels he Is the best Of the men he
VIII meet McLane was beaten by Hig-
gins. but It was by slight margin In
this race McLane set the pace all the
way and. not knowing the course, ran
snany yards further than he should. He
vent up 20 each flag marking the way
when there were short cuts he could