FRESHMAN CROTTY WINS HANDICAP RACE

Freshman C. E. Crotty yesterday afternoon won the annual University Cross Country Handicap Race. Crotty's time for the four mile course that runs along the banks of the Charles was 26 minutes and 58 seconds, a full minute ahead of C. D. B. Howell, also a Freshman, who finished second.

Forty-one runners doffed their sweat clothes on the Eliot House side of the Anderson Bridge at 3:30 o'clock for the beginning of the race. In the chill fall wind that swept across the river the competitors were sent off in six groups, with the first five having time advantages over the last of six minutes, forty seconds, three minutes, fifty seconds, two minutes, fifty seconds, two minutes, ten seconds, and one minute and fifty seconds respectively.

Winner Crotty and also third and fourth place winners L. A. Dimond '41 and D. H. Mitchell '41 were among the first group to start. Howell, having had cross country experience at Stowe School, England, had only the one minute and fifty second advantage over the scratch contingent. The course is entirely flat, following the cinder path skirting the Charles as far as the Watertown bridge, across, and back along the opposite side to the finish line lying directly across from the Dillon Field House.

The best time over the course, allowing for the handicap, was made by John W. Erhard, captain of the Varsity cross country team. Captain Jaakko Mikkola expressed great satisfaction with Captain Erhard's performance.

The order in which the runners finished is given below:

C. E. Crotty '41 (6:40); C. D. B. Howell '41 (1:50); L. A. Dimond '41 (:40); D. H. Mitchell '41 (6:40); R. B. Holden '38 (3:50); D. J. Maguire '41 (6:40); J. A. Shrader '41 (6:40); W. H. Browning '41 (6:40); R. A. Burns '41 (6:40); J. R. McLoughlin '41 (3:50); R. B. Nichols--'41 (1:50); C. H. Oldfather '41 (1:50); F. L. Porter, Jr. '40 (2:10); P. C. Brooks '40 (3:50); J. W. Erhard '38 (scratch); S. C. Madey '40 (3:50); W. P. (Tuttle '40 (scratch); G. P. Gardner III '39 (1:50); J. C. Wells '40 (2:10); Roswell Brayton '39 (scratch).

H. W. Burnett '40 (2:10); C. D. Stevens '40 (2:10); F. L. P. White '38 (scratch); G. H. Wadsworth '40 (3:50); C. Bulfinch '38 (3:50); L. H. Geist '41 (3:50); H. W. Magill '40 (3:50); R. B. Russell '41 (1:50); L. W. Mead '39 (2:50); M. D. Campbell, Jr. '41 (1:50); W. B. Liverence '41 (2:50); W. H. Wright '38 (scratch); B. J. McMahon '41 (6:40); A. E. Lindsay '38 (2:10); H. W. Kelly '40 (3:50); G. S. Gilligan '41 (1:50).