Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-23 | Page 42 | John Simmons Wins Cross-Country Run

JOHN SIMNmS WHB-' CROSS-COUNTRY Ml Comes in First Over Six-Mile Six-Mile Course, With Sev-enty-fo'ur Starters. NEW YORK, Nov. 2:. Jolin Simmons of Syracuse university won the intercollegiate intercol-legiate individual cross-country championship champion-ship today over the six-mile course at Vancortlandt park from a field of seventy-four starters. His time was 32:55 4-5. . V. K. McMahon of the Massachusetts 1 T finished second; Robert Crawford, Lafayette, third; T. C. McDermott, Cor- Inell. fourth; Louis G. Watson. Syracuse, ' fifth. The team championship was won By ' Syracuse, with 49 points. Princeton was second, with 69, and Cornell third, wtttt ; S7 The other teams' scores were: Penn-isylvania, Penn-isylvania, 117; Yale. 119: Columbia, 1T6; I Lafayette. 179: Massachusetts Institute ot Technology, 1S2; Dartmouth, 202; Har-r Har-r vard. 213; City College of New Y'ork, 330. No entrants " from Penn State, Colby, Maine or Rutgers took part in te con-ttest. con-ttest. u Simmons won the national junior cham-! cham-! pionship over the same course two weeks fago. and when he finished in front today ; his time was just five seconds faster than , in the junior event. 5 Thomas Campbell, who formerly represented repre-sented the University of Chicago and t holds the national half-mile outdoor title, 5 ran on the Yale university team in the 3 freshmen's three-mile cross-country run I which preceded the big event, and won by fully 400 yards, in ltj:07. Richman of Cornell was second; Head of Pennsylvania, j I third, and Ward of Cornell, fourth. S Cornell won the team honors, with 27 points: Yale had 41, Columbia, So, and ' Pennsylvania, S6.