Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-12-24 | Page 23 | Johnny Overton is some Classy Runner

JOHNNY OVERTON IS SOME CLASSY RUNNER As a cross-country runner, his two successive individual victories standing out as a criterion of his ability, Johnny Overton, the Yale runner, today occupies occu-pies a niche in the intercollegiate hall of fame, right neit to that of John Paul Jones. In leading home a pack of seventv-nine seventv-nine conditioned athletes, over sis miles of the new West Kock course at New Haven, the roughest traveling experienced experi-enced by the knights of the jerseved apparel, ap-parel, the sturdy sou of Old Eli 'accomplished 'accom-plished one of the greatest feats in hill and dale competition. Bucking a good sized gale, Overton not only was master of the situation trom start to finish, but he hung up a new record for this particular route of S.i minutes 0 4-5 seconds, which exports ex-ports agree will stand on the books for many years.