Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1915-11-18
Cross Country Run.
Event Will Take Place In Fred
erick THANKSGIVING Day.

cIlCk lHdukSSINlHS Jay
The Thurmont High School will send a
delegation of athletes to Frederick on
the morning of Thanksgiving Day to par
ticipat.in the three-mile cross country
run which will be held in that city under
the auspices of The Frederick News.
Those who are now arranging to enter
the event are Messrs John Creeger, Roy
English, Chas. Chilean and Roger Smith.
The race will begin and end in front OF
The News building. 1t will extend over
the principal streets of Frederick and out
into the suburbs. So far over fifty rum
ners. representing various institutions,
have entered in the run and from all in
dications the race will be one of the larg-
est events of it's kind ever held in this
section.
The complete list of officials follows:
Honorary Referee-Mayor Lewis H.
Fraley.
Referee-Major D. John Marley.
Starter-H. Hanson Maulsby.
Clerk of the Course-E. Austin James.
Judges at Finish-Guy X. Motter and
John Francis Smith.
Judges of Course Chas. McC. Matthias,
Richard p. Ross, James A. LeGore, W.
Scholl Hersperger, ]. Harry Grove.
Timers-F. Lester Smith and Irving
M. Landauer.
First Aid Work Scout Commissioner
Dudley Page.
Physician Dr. B. O. Thomas.
Committee in Charge T. c. For
roster, Prof. Sydney S. Stabler, c. X.
Harris, Major D. John Marley, E. Austin
James and representatives from the var
ious county High Schools entered in the
run.
At conference between representa-
lives of four institutions in Frederick
nnd DR.. William Burdick, chairman of
the registration committee of the South
Atlantic Association of the Amatuer
Athletic League, of Baltimore, it was
lecided to organize local amatuer ath-
etic federation in Frederick to be affli
lted with the South Atlantic Association.
The action taken was significant and
will tend to revolutionize athletics in
Frederick county, which in the future
will be standardized and given the same
protection that surrounds every contest
in the country run under the auspices of
the Amateur Athletic Union.
The form of the organization of the
Frederick federation will be similar to
that of the Richmond branch. 1t will
have authority to transact all of its own
business along its own organized lines,
the only condition being that the amateur
status of all athletes participating in the
sanctioned meets must have the same
standards as those required by the Am
ateur Athletic Union.
Frederick is the first city in Maryland
and the second in the South to so stand
ardize it's athletics and the committee
action is the outgrowth of the three
mile crosse country run which will be held
on the morning of Thanksgiving Day, for
it was when DR.. Burdick learned of the
event that he volunteered
come to Frederick in the interest of the
The local federation will
elect one man who will represent it on
the Board of Managers of the Southern
Athletic Association.
The representatives of the four insti-
tutions present in conference with DR..
Burdick We're:
Maryland School for the Deaf i Prof
T. C. Forester.
Young Mems Christian Association
Physical Director C. Kelly Harris.
Frederick High School-Prof. Sidney
S. Stabler, faculty athletic advisor.
Company A, Maryland National Guard
Major d. J. Marley, athletic adviser.