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With the biggest effort of the season coming up today in the form of the Ivy League Heptagonals, the Crimson harriers left Cambridge yesterday afternoon for New York and ultimately Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx where the nine-college race will start at 11 o'clock...
Next week will see a seven man Varsity running on the foreign soil of Van Cortlandt Park in New York City in the traditional Ivy League Heptagonals, which since the beginning of the war have included Army and Navy to make a total of nine college on the roster. Harriers Gurley, Cogan and the other top men will get another crack at their major H if they can squeeze into the first seven places...
Died. First Lieut. Augustus Van Cortlandt III, 22, only son of Manhattan socialite Augustus Van Cortlandt Jr., 51, who thus became the last surviving male of his famed old New York family (Dutch-born Olaf Van Cortlandt emigrated to Nieuw Amsterdam in 1638), which once owned 83,000 acres of New York City and Westchester County (including the Bronx' huge, sprawling Van Cortlandt Park which was sold to the city in 1889); of wounds received in battle in Germany...
...sport almost untouched by the war is Harlem's colored cricket. Last week the slim, supple bowlers and batsmen of the two big leagues, the New York and the Cosmopolitan, were out for spring practice in the vast green reaches of Van Cortlandt Park...
Most of the players and onlookers are West Indians. There are ten eleven-man teams in the New York League, six in the Cosmopolitan. After a summer's play in Van Cortlandt Park, a "world series" is held between the leagues in the Randalls Island Stadium...