Evening star., 1917-05-04
BY H. c. BYRD.

Maryland State tomorrow holds its
annual track and field meet. Notwith-
standing the abolishment of the class
for-courtv high schools of Maryland,
nearly 200 athletes from the big high
ard prep schools OF the distrtct OF
MaryIand have sent In their names for
anaayerage Of three events each- Ihere
are about 500 entries for open inter-
scholastic competitions, many more
than have been scheduled in the pre-
xious meets. The first call for event
No / will be at 1:4o o'clock ana the
event is to be started at 2 O'Clock.
Here is the list OF officials for 'he
meet:
fonorarv referees-Dr. II. ]. Patterson; pres W
dent Maryland State College, aEd IL, Ut. Nary-
sknner, alumni member board e, award Beck
~ .e pbysc,i director Washington Central }; ~.
T. 4. starter. V. Muiigan, George'SMn s Msrvland
stnie college Announcer C.S. Richardson. Maa
land state. College. Timers Washington.
and ryan Mors Clerk son, Tech s,s,n ,aase col, i.
tnish-i. y. Rroushton Msryansd ,.;s s'a Sollesr.
nni -pr. Charles o. Applemau. ptckersonp psnn- ST,-
iege. Chief teld jndgeM;yI,Sn, s;y,Sn, tield Judges
sysiss snsssr sfass cosfs Michigan Ag-eultura coess
O. c. bruce. PennsylyaIia state IS Jar
W. Anspon. Ohio state hnlN'i9h' uodckins
Tsl Elna.slsana Masgiand s,s,s and Wss,s sRiw
MARYLAND state cosss P ois r. Maryland
state college R. rsdSets %asnd IS state eh1 cslese
i. oberiin Maryland State C.llege; ~ n; y.
Derrick Maryland State College: " nanpsnp
son Baltimore City College; r. co-1a - Green
Tome School, and W. Foxy. Central High schooi'
As far as the intercollegiate events
he
low what II has been in past years;
Undoubtedly there will be some sooa
/, competition. as Delaware Ioliese hnu
Ms0Sland State College each Is ~.
sented by capable performers, Dut the
collegiate part of the affair is only
dual meet between Delaware and mary
land while in former years seven vi
eight colleges have taken part.
Scholastic competition is sure TO pe
the best in the history Of the meet: me
entry list is larger and all the schoo,s
appear to have exceptionally capapte
men listed to wear their coiors. win
the, exception of the pole vault, any
, where from thirty-tive to sixty men are
scheduled to compete in each event.
Numbered among these are the oest
scholastic athletes in the section. ana 'ne
rivalry between them. particularly ~
eome instances. is intense.
II was necessary to refuse the entries
from about fifteen institutions Tor tne
class for county high schools, but the
representation of schools in the open
interscholastic events is greater than
usual Central High. Tech High, Tome
School, Baltimore City College, Ale
ghany County High School, F'rederick X
High School. Western High Schooi,
Business High School. st. Alban's school.
Sparks High School. Northeast High
School, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
and Westminster High School are to
compete in these events with squads
varying in size from the one man VINO
is to represent st. Adams to the forty
three who will wear Technical Highs
colprs.
All the athletes and those in charge
of them will be entertained at meals
by the college. No entry fees are
charged for the contestants, and
there will be no admission fee to the
meet itself.
Lawson Robertson, coach of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania track squad, is
glowing in his praise of the freshman
relay team developed by him this year.
Robertson comes out direct with the
statement that with another years de-
ve1opment the quartet will break the
worlds record. and in his predictions
Robertson figures that silly" Maxam,
former Western High and st. Alban' s
star, will be the stellar figure of the
four. Robertson gives 1t as his opin-
Ion that Maxam will do the quarter IN
Al seconds. which undoubtedly would
make him the fastest quarter-miler in
the world. Here is Robertson's state
ment about the relay, as published in a
Philadelphia paper:
IF the war does not wreck things.
that freshman relay team that went a
mile in 322 last Saturday on Franklin
Field will smash the worlds record or
j miss my guess.
Fred Davis. the Mercersburg lad. can
beat fifty seconds with another year of
f GyHI
hirtfself Davis will clip at least a
second off and go in 4s fat-maybe a
shade faster.
'The former George School lad,
Hough, ran with leg that kept him
from hitting 1T up at the start. He
JUST swung along until he had gone
so0.yards. Hough will beat 49 seconds