Battling to a splendid finish against the strongest distance runners in the country, Captain J. L. Reid '29 took third place in the Intercollegiate cross-country races in which 19 colleges competed on the Van Cortlandt Park course in New York yesterday, and led his team, with a score of 60, to a second place in the cross-country classic, which was won by Penn State, with a score of 50

W. J. Cox of Penn State won the race in 30 minutes, 36 and 4-5 seconds, with H. L. Richardson of Maine placing second. Maine won third team honors in the meet, with Union and M. I. T. fourth and fifth respectively.

R. G. Luttman '29 ran to eighth place for the University, with G. B. Lee '30 placing fourteenth, Leslie Flaksman '29 taking sixteenth, and J. O. Wildes '29 nineteenth places to make up the University score.

The order in which the first 25 runners finished follows:

Cox (Penn, Richardson (Maine), Reid (H), Lindsay (Maine), Merembeck (Penn), Louis Lee (Penn), Offenhauser (Penn), Luttman (H), Totten (Union), Hagen (Columbia), Besth (Union), Kittee (Penn), McClintock M. I. T.), G. B. Lee (H), McNanghton (Maine), Flaksman (H), Sawtelle (Union), Kirwin (M. I. T.), Wildes (H), Pond (Cornell), Roth (N. T. U.), Benson (Maine), Thoren (M. I. T.), Ratcliff (Penn), Rothman (Union). Time, 30m., 36 and 4-5s. First five scores. Penn State 50, Harvard 60. Maine 64, Union 92, M. I. T. 150.