Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-06-17
POCOMOKE HIGH
SCHOOL HAS A
STATE CHAMPION
Hillaire Wardwell Wins Quarter
Mile Run At Annual State
Olympiad In Baltimore.
OTHER WORCESTER BOYS
MAKE GOOD SHOWING

Pocomoke High School has a State
Champion. On Friday last, at Home
wood Field, Baltimore, the Eighth
Annual State Olympiad was held ,and
the track and field athletes of twenty
three Maryland counties and of Bal
tlmore city struggled for supremacy
before large crowd Of spectators.
Each single contesting athlete was a
star in his particular event for each
had won first place in his own county
meet The annual Olympiad which is
conducted annually at Homewood by
the Public Athletic League is meet
in which only first-place winners and
stars are allowed to compete and to
win in contest of this caliber is in
deed honor and glory.
The event in which one of POGO
moke City's boys, and incidentally
our local high school and Worcester
county came into the lime-light of
fame was the 440 yard, or quarter
mile run, conceded by those who wit
messed it to have been the prettiest
and most spectacular race of the
day. Hillaire Wardwell, son of Col
E. H. Wardwell of this city was Woc
cester county's representative in this
event, having won first place in this
event in the annual county meet held
at our local fair grounds on May 1st
last, ',hen he smashed the county rec
ord by running the distance in 55
seconds.
Young Wardwell drew the third
position from the pole, but got off to
a good start with only Spence of
Washington county and Warfield of
Baltimore City College ahead of him.
He overlook the latter on the back
stretch, but the Washington county
lad was still several yards ahead.
Wardwell gradually gained however
and when he rounded the curve to
come in on the home-stretch, was al
most neck and neck with his rival.
Then with beautiful burst of speed,
he passed his competitor and contin-
uing his sprint down the straight
away, he opened a gap of several
yards and broke the tape rather
easy winner in the fast time of 81
seconds. While the big crowd cheer
ed, Wardwell was caught in the arm
sf Mr.. C. Harold King, of our hig !
school faculty, who had charge of our
local high school boys in the recent
county meet and who mad trained
Wardwell especially for this event.
Wardwell has the additional honor
of being the first Worcester county
boy who has ever won 1st place at the
State Olympiad. He has one moro
year at P. H. S., and has a splendid
chance next year to not only repeat
his victory of last Friday at the next
State Meet, but to break the state
record in the 440 yard run, which is
SO seconds or only one second faster
time than Wardwell made on Frida
last.
Other laurels won by Worcester
county boys at the Olympiad We're:
Berlin Senior Relay Team-Third
place.
Mumford-of Snow Hill-Fourtl
place-60 yard dash.
Berlin 951b. Relay-Third Place
Preliminary Heat.
Ennis-of Pocomoke-2nd place
20 yard dash-Preliminary Heat.
Bicking of Pocomoke-First Place
--220 I'd. Dash Preliminary Heat.
Pocomoke Jr. Unlimited Relay-4tf
overwhelmingly Heat.
Aiken of Snow Hill-Third Place
100 yd. Dash-Preliminary Heat.
'Outten of Pocomoke Fourth Place
80 yd. Dash-Preliminary Heat.
Berlin $50 yd Relay-4th place
Preliminary Heat.
This is the best showing that Wor
cester county ever made in the Stat
Track and Field Meet. We hope the!
will do even better next year, as tn
Olympiad at Homewood is the crown
ing climax to high school athletics Il
the state just as the annual Count
Meet is the climax and predominant
athletic event in each individual couI,
ty of the state.
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