Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1909-05-06
The Great Tome Meet.
Port Deposit, May 3, 1909
Editor CLARION:-

1t occurs to me that inasmuch as
Thurmont High School sends a team
to compete in the Rural High School
Series at the big meet to be held at
Tome this coming Saturday, the Sth
inst, Thurmont people may be in
t"rcsted in learning some particulars
,garding this Tome Meet.
This is the eth year and it has
grown until it has become, as far as
numbers are concerned at least, in all
probability, the greatest int'rscholas-
tic athletic cont st held in this coun-
try. Eleven schools who were not
present last year will COMPETE this
year. The entries are Is per cent
greater than they Were a year ago,
and up to that time last years meet
was the banner meet in point of at
tendance. There will be thirty three
events, fifty races in all in addition
to the six field events, namely, the
pole vault, high jump, shot, hamm r,
and two broad jumps, tone for the
Rural High School Scrirs). In the
open series l.awrcnccvillc School,
Baltimore City College, Central High
School of Washington, Delaney
School, Episcopal Academy, Swarth-
more Preparatory School, Atlantic
City High School, and Tome have
entered particularly strong teams. At
no time since the Inauguration OF the
meets has there been entered such a
number of star athletes. The 100
yard dash, in particular, will be a
race worth going many miles to see.
After several preliminary heats, it
will bring together in the finals six
bows, all of whom have been doing
around 10 ID Sec, and among whom
it would be impossible to pick a win
ner, namely, Payntcr of Central Man
ual Training School of Philadelphia,
Dewey of Central High School of
Washington, Patterson of Baltimore
City College, Pendleton of Episcopal
High School of Alexandria, Luke of
I.awrcnccville (who last Saturday ran
second to Gill in the Princeton Uni
versity games), and Smith of Tome,
who did 10 fiat last Saturday with a
strong wind behind him. No time in
the history of track athletics in this
country have so many good men OF
even callhrc come together for final
in this event.
The shot put will be another start
Ter, inasmuch as Waller of Lawrence
vile and Smith of Tome both threw
the lead A. it. in. in competitive
meets last Saturday. Canister of 10y
ola Preparatory, who won the event
last year, will also be a competitor;
Steinbach, record holder at Baltimore
City Coll,g Spransy from Central
High School of Washington, and
many others. In the hammer, Wolf
of Lawrcnccvillt, point winner in the
Princeton games, Bailey from Morris
Heights School of Providence, K. t.,
Steinbach of Baltimore City College,
Towne of Tome, and about dozen
others will contest for the supremacy.
| The 4 10 dash is another race in which
it will he difficult to pick the winner.
Twenty four men will start at the
crack of the pistol in this race, among
them such cracker jacks as LeCato,
record holder of Baltimore City Col
lege, Surrcn and Strang from Atlant-
ic City High School, CLANCY and
Lancaster from Central High School
of Washington, Luke and Eel on
from Lawrenceville. In the halfmilc
run sixteen men will start, among
them Rcale point winner in the
Swarthmore College games last Sat
urday, Cliff of the Baltimore Country
School, Towle of Lawrenceville, Zeh
and Slarrow from Central High School
of Washington. Seventeen men will
race the mile, among them several
well-known distance runners. The
rural high school boys have come out
in force this year, their entri being
80 per cent larger than last year.
Eighteen of them will face the line
for the Is yard dash, 16 for the 22C
yard dash, 20 for the half mile run,
13 for the broad Jump, and in the
novice races and junior races there is
tremendous list, and many heats
will be necessary to decide these
events. Last year there were between
two and three thousand spectators
and the management is making pro
vision this year for at least so pei
cant more, as indications point to an