New Britain herald., 1929-11-07
PENN BARRIERS JET GOOD START
Gross Country Team Defeats N, ', U, Lehigh and Syracuse

New York, Nov. LT--Along the iourly cross country trails as well as in inc football stadiUus tho coll"go athletes of the east arc Waglng rcd hot warfare these autumn days.
 Penn States intercollegiate cham pion team Of harriors has madc su impressive start cleaning up New York university and Lchigh in on" race and Syra"us" in another. d's- pito he lose Of its acc, Biz Bill Cox, hy graduation.
 Paul Rekcrs who finished only 13rd in the title chase ar Van Cort- landt park last year. has shown re- markablc improvement and taken the place Of Cox as malnstay Of Coach Nato CartmrI's Nittany Lion pack. Ho Is nearly two minutes faster over the six mile route than he Nas d year ago, A team mat" Dick Dctweiler. who won the fresh man croNn two years back, is right on his heels.
 Cornell, making bold bid for cross country glorics that were hers when such distance cracks as John Paul Jones, Ivan Dresser and +. r.. Brown were running all rivals into the grounds. has yet to meet de- feat The Red runners of Ithaca once supreme. have not won inter collegiate varsity honors. either in. dividual or team. since back in 1921 but under the leadership Of Cap tain sam lowering of the Hollow, Va, Cornell already has taken the measure Of Yale by count Of 70 10 54 and rolled uD 2 perfect score against Alfred, which has a rcpU- tation for turning out sterling cross country teams.
 Just how well Cornell stacks up against other leading contendcrs for 1F2a honors will he determined hcrc Saturday when Columbia. Pcnnsyl- yauia, Dartmouth and Cornell fight lt out in their annual qu@drangular race over the Van Courtlandt park hills and dales. This event marks the carly season peak Of the tCiti IT LIltaA N tlI 'oili'e lp q lltlI'' with the intercollegiate A. A. A. A. cham plonship, November 95.
 Pennsylvania. with champion freshman team last year, will hn s dark horse threat in the big four corncrcd feature as the Quakors have not yet run a race. With Joe Hagen not quite up 10 expectations. Columbia lost to Syracuse but beat Johns Hopkins. Dartmouth trailod both Springfield and Harvard in dual meets.
 Harvard. which should bo favored 10 trim Yale in thcjr annual run at Cambridge Friday, is still in the un- beaten class. In spite of the grad nation Of Jimmy Reid, Harvard cap tain and winner Of the intcrcolleei- ate title last year. the Crimson hill and dalers accounted for Holy Cross New Hampshire and Dartmouth without difficulty and if they can dispose of Yale will come up 10 the intcrcollc criates undcfcattd.
 Colgate likewise is in the unbeatcn class by NlGlHt Oi Nifiti l'S DN'i Union. Hobart and Rochester, but this Saturday the Maroon outfit meets New York university here in race that should show just where ii stands as championship contcnd- CT. Williams also has done well, trouncing >liddlebury and Ecnsso- lacr Polytechnic institute. with Brown and Wesleyan still to be met.
 Tom Kcane's Syracuse teams all ways must be given consideration and this year IS no exception. In shutting out Hobart. neatly trim ming Columbia and extending Penn State 10 the limit the Orange served notice Of real strength Walter Dean, varsity veteran, and Lawrence Be hanger. best Of q good sophomore crop. have been outstanding.
 second 10 Penn Stat" lart year. the University of Maine will hav" to bo rccEon"d with in spit" of q eurprjsinc defeat by Rates l3et week. Others that cannot be counted out arc x. Y. r., NJ. l. r. and Prince