The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1909-04-24
TOME IS GREAT
TRICK MEET
Wide Interest In The Coming
Sporfs--RuraI High Schools
Tc Contest For Prizes

School athletes throughout the State
are busiIy training for the second an
nual Maryland Rural High School
Championships TO be held at Tome on
Saturday May 8. These Champion
ships were introduced last year at
Tones great annual gathering OF ath-
lctic champions, and the Franklin
High School OF Rcisters,own achieved
the honor OF being the first 10 win q
Maryland Rural High School Athletic
Championship.
This year Tome has already received
acceptances from eight additional
schools in this class. and as those who
were present last year will in all prob
ability again compete, the Rural High
School Championships bid fair to chal-
lenge IN interest, at least for Maryland
people, the other big athletic events in
which will compete school-boy stars
from Baltimore, Philadelphia, WASH
ington, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Delaware, iyew York, and
Rhode Island. Tome has been so much
gratiiied by the remarkable success oil
these Rural High School Champions
ships that size will this year award to
the winning school handsome oak
plaque lettercd in bronze and bearing
silver plate. AS a further expression
Of her appreciation Of the way in which
the Rural High Schools have respond
ed 10 the introduction OF this series,
Tome has had special die made and
special medal struck of-Victory
holding 4 laurel wreath with the in
scription, Maryland Rural High
School Chan pionships, Tome. 1000"
and on the back Of the medal the event
and the name OF the winner will be
placed, The medals are on watch-fobs:
a gold medal to the winner in each
event, silver medal TO the second
man. and bronze medal TO the third.
Competitors are coming from Jar
rettsville, Bel Air, Annapolis. Easton,
Elkton, fredericksburg Forest Hill,
lhurmont, Reisterstown. Colora. etc,
etc. Away up in Emmittsburg they are
talking OF sending a delegation Of their
best athletes. Catonsvillc. on the
other side Of Baltimore. is trying out
her boys West Nottingham Academy
will be represented. as heretofore.
Chesapeake City is likely 10 send up
somebody 10 carry of a medal or two,
and Havre dc Grace will no doubt send
some OF the boys who competed last
year Probably one-half the counties
in the State will be represented and
the meet will be sort of Mecca for
Maryland rural high school athletes.
The management is making arrange
mcnts TO accommodate in all three
hundred athletes The meet will be
he'd rain or shine. and il the weather
is fair. j, will be an occasion long to
We remembered with pleasure. Last
year there were between two thousand
and three thousand spectators, about
one third of whom came from Balti-
more City. Tome makes very COM
plctc preparations for the reception
and entertainment OF the athletes. Her
| committees meet them as they get off
the trains, check their suitcases. es-
cort them to the Tome Inn entertain
them at lunch and dinner, show them
| around the grounds, etc. etc.
The handsome new batting cage,
| erected last winter, will be used this
year as a dressing room instead Of the
| canvas tents, which in past years were
erected upon the oval. The rural high
school athletes who attend the meet
Tor the first time will have treat in
watching the flying experts from the
greatest schools in the East in their
Spccialties
Among the officials are men OF ma
tional reputation in athletics. and the
Tome campus, with its fine track and
oval, its magnificent buildings and SUR
roundinRs, is an ideal field for con-
test OF such magnitude.