CORNELL PICKED TO TAKE INTERCOLLEGIATE TITLE

The Intercollegiate Cross-Country Meet which takes place at New Haven the morning of November 20 promises to be one of the closest and most interesting races of a number of years. The race will be run over a difficult six and a half mile course. There will be at least ten colleges represented, among which will be Cornell, Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Syracuse, Pennsylvania and M. I. T. The first five men from each college to cross the line will make up the scores, the college with the lowest score to win the trophy offered annually. Each of the first seven men to finish from the entire pack will receive his letter from his respective college.

Boom Cross-Country at Ithaca

It looks now as though team honors would be fought out between Cornell and Princeton, both of whom have excellent packs. Cornell is the favorite between these two teams as she has as yet faced no opposition which could give her a real race. Cross-country is one of the most important sports at Cornell, and this fall there were 200 candidates for the squad. The coach is an excellent one and McDermott, the captain, is a star performer. The Cornell team is sailing for England in December to race the Oxford harriers. In preparation for this race the Cornell team has been running a seven and a half mile course, which includes hills, ditches, sand and all possible difficulties of grade and bad footing. The six-mile course at Yale, although laid over West Rock, should be easy for them. The Princeton team is a good one and is led by Rogers, Martin, Penfield and Swede, runners who should finish in one of the first ten or fifteen places. They defeated Yale two weeks ago with little difficulty, Rogers capturing first place. It is doubtful whether they will be able to cope with Cornell's well balanced team, especially as Swede is hampered by a bad leg.

Picking Winner a Toss-Up

As to, individuals, the meet will be a thrilling one without doubt. It is very probable that the old records for the course made by the late lamented Overton of Yale will go by the board with such a galaxy of star harriers. No one can say who will be the first man to cross the tape, but it is fairly certain that first honors will be captured by one of five stars, each from a different college: McDermott of Cornell, Higgins of Columbia, Rogers of Princeton Simmons of Syracuse or MacMahon of M. I. T. Second choices who may upset the "dope" are Watson of Syracuse, Brown and Irish of Cornell, and McCulloch of Princeton.