The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-04-27
1885, - = ..--------
Field Day May 5
at U. Of Maryland
Bigger Than Ever
Seven Different Events
Comprise Varied Program
Four Old Line Varsity Teams in
Action, Lacrosse Game with
st. Johns Featuring

EIELD DAY at the University OF
Maryland, the brightest spot on
the sports calendar in the South At
lantic sector each Spring, promises to
be more pretentious than ever. 1t
will be held at College Park on May
s with seven distinct events on the
program.
Action, and it will be plenty and
keen, will start shortly after noon
and will be kept up until near dusk
when the Maryland and st. Johns
lacrosse teams will have finished the
battle that will climax the carnival.
The complete card follows:
1890: Interscholastic track meet,
with 10 open events and closed to
county high schools of the State.
1890: Track meet, Maryland Fresh
men VS.. Gallaudet College.
100: Track meet, Maryland VS..
William and Mary.
100: Baseball, Maryland VS.. West
Virginia.
100: Tennis, Maryland VS.. William
and Mary.
400: Lacrosse, Maryland VS.. st.
Johns of Annapolis.
Fully 500 to Compete
These contests will bring fully 500
athletes into competition, and, exclu-
sive of the heats in the various
meets, there actually will be So diff
ferent contests. There will be AZ
finals in the track meets, six singles
and three doubles in the tennis match,
with the ball game and the lacrosse
battle each providing competition that
will stretch over close to two hours.
There is no other annual affair in
the East or South that matches it in
st. Johns and Maryland, always at
each others threats, athletically
speaking, promise to provide one Of
the stick classics of the season.
Maryland has one of it's very best ball
teams and West Virginia always is
in the front rank on the diamond,
while Maryland and William and
Mary appear to be we'll matched both
in track and tennis.
Forty or more schools, with about
rs per cent of them from within the
State, have competed annually for
the scholastic track honors and it is
likely that new record for entries
will be set this year.
Present Track Satellites
William and Mary will present the
South's most brilliant and versatile
athlete in Monroe Little, the inter-
collegiate broad jump champion, who
completes in four events and who this
year has scored IS points each in two
dual meets.
Little in addition to ruling the col
legians in the broad jump, hurls the
iavelin close to 200 feet and runs both
the 100 and 220 in fast time.
Little, though, doubtless will meet
his master in Earl Widmyer, the
Hagerstown fier, ii the sprint events,
but the Old Liners have no men who
can match in his other two special
ties.
In addition to Widmyer, Maryland
also has two great quarter-milers in
Warren Evans and Bob Archer, a
trio of half mile speedsters in Bob
Sonen, Corny Cronin and Selby Frank.
and pair of sophs in Bob Slye and
Willard Beers who shine brightly in
the hurdles and jumping events.
Widmyer did the 100 in 81 and
the 220 in 212zs; Evans ran the 44O
in 49225S, and Slye covered the 100 yard
low hurdles in 15.5 and the 220 yard
high in 25 seconds in a recent meet
against Virginia Tech.
William and Mary also has some
fine performers in addition to Little,
notably Platt Billiard who runs the
quarter and half mile.
With its increased facilities, Mary
land is able to take care of the Inc
vading horde of athletes without diff
ticulty.