Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-01-11
TRACK MEET
At TOME SCHOOL
Tenth Annual Inter-Scholastic Field
and Track Meet.
TO BE HELD In MAY.
Schedule Of Events in Which County
High Schools Will Participate.

The Tome School, Port Deposit. Md
Invitations are out for the tenth an
nual interscholastic field and track
meet to be held at the Tome School,
Port Deposit, Nd, on the third Satur-
day in May, the goth, and acceptances
are beginning to pour in
Practically every secondary school
in Maryland, schools in Washington.
Philadelphia, New York, Wilmington.
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 interscho
lastic event of the south. bringing to-
gether in competition the finest boy
talent in the section, and is considered
by all young athletes in this part of the
country an occasion of first Importance
In addition to the four events here
fore open to contestants from the ru-
raj high schools, there will be two new
ones. the broad jump and the shot put.
Another innovation, which no doubt
will be of great interest, will be the
half-mile faculty relayrace. Altogeth-
er, there will be twenty-five events.
including the 100-yard dash. 220-yard
dash, 440-yard dash, SS0-yard run. mile
run, 120-yard hurdle, 220-yard hurdles,
high jump. broad jump. pole vault,
shot put az pounds), hammer throw.
(12 pounds, and the mile relay race
in the program of open events.
The novice events, open to all the
schools, consist if 75-yard dash. and
660-yard run. Events open to the
country high schools onl yare 75-yard
dhsa. 220-yard dash, SS0-yard run,
broad jump, shot put. (12 pounds), and
a mile relay race. A special event will
be a faculty relay race-half mile, for
four men. Gold, silver and bronze
medals will eb awarded the victors.
A handsome silver cup will be given to
the highest point winner in the open
events; the school winning the event
will receive 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 man
agement found it impossible to arrange
for an excursion from Baltimore last
spring owing to the fact that the law
does not allow excursions to be run
before May Is. The trip up the bay
and the Susquehanna is unusually
beautiful. and the boat arrives an hour
before the meet and leaves about an
hour afterwards, so that many Balti-
moreans prefer coming this way.
Generally about one thousand visit
ors in all come from Baltimore. Every
train that comes into Port Deposit
that day is thronged and hundreds
will drive in from the farms and es
tates of the surrounding country. 1t
list he biggest day, athletically speak
ing. that Tome has during the year,
and the gr latest affair of The kind
in the entire South. Tome possesses q
remarkably attractive setting for a
field and track meet, inasmuch as the
track and oval are situated on an ele-
waited plateau. carved out of the hill
which bounds on the north, and the
athletic field has something of the APP
pearance of the ancient Greek amphi-
theatre The grandstand of solid con
crete, with seats three feet wide and
six inches thick, and curved to follow
the outlines of the track, adds con-
siderabl to this impression.
From the grandstand Their is a
splendid view of the magnificent build
ings, the campus with the beautiful
Italian garden, the Susquenanna river
and the Hartford hills in the distance.
Judging by the enthusiastic interest
displayed in Tones former meets, and
taking into consideration the extra
preparations 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.
Alaska Wonderland.