The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-01-13
TRACK MEET
AT TOME SCHOOL
!fenth Annual Inter-Scholastic Field
- And Track Meet to be Held in May
Schedule of Events in Which
County High Schools Will Par
ticipate.

Invitations are out for the tenth
annual inter-scholastic field and
track meet to be held at the Tome
j School, Port Deposit, Md, on the
! third Saturday in May, the 2Oth,a land
aeceptances are beginning to pour in.
Practically every secondary school
Is Maryland, schools in Washington,
Philadelphia, New York, Wilmin gton,
Dover, Newark, Alexandria and other
places within a radius of $50 miles
have been invited to compete, and in
all, about two hundred invitations
have been extended. The Tome School
meet has become the classic inter
scholastic event of the South, bring
iEg together in competition the fin
es. boy talent in the section, and is
c.:asidered by all young athletes in
tbs part of the country an occasion
O., first Importance.
In addition to the four events
heretofore open to contestants from
the rural high schools, there will be
two new ones, the broad jump and
tbA shot put. Another innovation,
which no doubt will be Of great inter-
es., will be the half-mile faculty re-
lay race. Altogether, there will be
twenty-five events, including the 100
yard dash, 220-yard dash, 440-yard
dash, 8SO-yard run, mile run, 12O-
yard hurdle, 220-yard hurdles, high
jump, broad jump, pole vault, shot
put (12 pounds,) hammer throw,
IL pounds, and the mile relay race
in the program of open events.
The novice events, open to all the
schools, consists of a 75-yard dash,
ami 660-yard run. Events open to
the country high schools only are
75-yard dash, 220-yard dash, $50
yard run, broad jump, shot put, (12
poInds,) and a mile relay race. A
special event will be faculty relay
race-half mile, for four men. Gold,
silver and bronze medals will be
awarded the victors. A handsome
silver cup will be given to the high
est point winner in the open events;
the school winning the event will re-
ceiFe a silver mounted plaque, and a
banner will be given to the school
making most points in the country
high school events.
In order to make the meet larger
this year than ever before, the date
has been changed from the second
to the third Saturday in May, as the
management found it impossible to
arrange for an excursion from Bal
timore last spring owing to the fact
that the law does not allow eXcur-
sions to be run before May Is. The
trip up the bay and the SusQuehan-
ma IS unusually beautiful, and the
boat arrives an hour before the
meet and leaves about an hour after
wards, so that many Baltimoreans
prefer coming this way.
Generally about one thousand visi-
tors in all come from Baltimore. EV-
cry train that comes into Port De-
pos: that day is thrOnged and hun
,dxs1f<-@sili drive in from The farms
an estates or the surrounding coun-
try. 1t is the biggest day, athletic
ally speaking, that Tome has during
the year, and the greatest affair of
the kind in the entire South. Tome
possesses a remarkably attractive
setting for field and track meet,in
asmuch as the track and oval are
situated on an elevated plateau, cary
ed out of the hill which bounds on
the north, and the athletic field has
something of the appearance of the
ancient Greek amphi-theatre. The
grandstand of solid concrete, with
seats three feet wide and six inches
thick, and curved to follow the out
lines of the track, adds considerable
to this impression.
From the grandstand there is a
splendid view of the magnificent
buildings, the campus with the beau
tiful Italian garden, the Susquehan-
ne riu hn 10 in,
the distance. Judging by the en-
thusiastic interest displayed in
Tones former meets, and taking in
to consideration the extra prepara-
tions this year to make the meet an
exceptional success, the goth of
May, 1916, will doubtless go down
as a red-letter day in the history of
school athletics.