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Show SPRINTING MATCH. Over Forty Runners Start in Junior Championship. NEW YORK, Nov. 21. John J. Daly of Galway. Ireland, running In the colors of Greater New York Irish Athletic association, associa-tion, won the A. A. U. Individual crosscountry cross-country championship of tho Metropolitan Metropoli-tan district, at Travcrs Island today. Tho team honors went to the Xavler Athletic association, which wns the first to have five men cro&s tho finish line. Tho distance dis-tance was a llttlo over six miles, and Daly's time was 23:11. Over forty runners run-ners started In the Junior championship and the principal honor was won by Michael Mi-chael Spring of the Pastime Athletic club of this cltv, and his club alpo took the team prize. Spring Is well-known as a distance runner, having won the Marathon Mara-thon race at Boston recently. |