The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-11
STRONG CANDIDATES.
Open Question as to
Holy Cross Base
Ball Manager.
BOTH FACTIONS FEEL SURE.
Selection Comes This Morn
ing at a Mass Meeting
Of the Students.
BOTH FACTIONS FEEL SURE.

athletic association of the college, of
which nearly every student is a mem
Der. will hold its annual meeting and
will take action on this very important
Question.
1t need scarcely be said that the in
terest at this moment is at white heat
and everybody is on the tip toe of eX-
citement as to the outcome. Base ball
has always occupied a most prominent
position in the athletics of the college
on Mount st. James, and the selection
of a manager for the team for the in
coming season has always been attend
ed with the greatest concern by the
boys on the hill. The success in a great
measure of the team for the coming
season depends upon the man who has
charge of it, and whether it terminates
a successful year or not, remains for
the decision of the student body in its
selection.
In the years which have passed into
history Of the college, able men, promi-
nent in athletic circles of the college,
have been elected to this office, and
the students have always shown a
careful selection in the managers, and
the great success which the teams each
year from that institution have at
tanned has been the fruit of the labors
of an efficient manager
And this coming season, the begin
ming of an era in college base ball in
which greater privileges are granted
to the players and greater trust is re-
posed in the manager by the faculty,
Will not prove any exception to the
general rule. Rather a greater amount
Of care will be regarded by the stu
dent body in its selection, for the pres
ent seasons work. in which so many
NintnTinu I 4
ing which the trips Of the team away
from home have been extended. makes
1t imperative that the man who shall
direct the base ball team next year
shall be one familiar with every point
in the game, and one whose influence
in the college world Is far-reaching and
recognized.
Holy Cross victories this year have
placed her team among the leaders in
the college base ball world, and next
year there is not a team that will not
be willing to give up a date for the
sake OF crossing bats with the leaders.
Choice in the manager for next
| years team has .dwindled down to two
| young men at the college, both Of the
Junior class, who are well and popu-
larly known among the students. The
contest VIII be a warm and an exciting
as well as close one, and Sundays
balloting will bring victory to one only
by close margin.
Michael j. Thompson, 90, and Ed
| ward j. Corcoran, co. are the two men
who Will stand for the managership at
| TINS mornings election
Both men entered Holy Cross COL
lege IN the same year, Mr. Thompson
| a rev months in advance of his class
| mate, Mr.. CorcOran, the former having
| entered in the fall OF 1897 and the lat
| ter later in the winter of the same
| year. Both have studied side by side
in the same class and study nall since
at the college, and are the warmest CT
| friends, nor does the contest for man
| agership, which has been thrust upon
! them rather than assumed by either,
| give rise to any feeling other tnan that
of true fellowship
Michael J. Thompson is young man
whose home is in Waterbury. Conn.
and whose life has been almost wholly
| spent in and among athletics and ath-
| letes. With the college athlete of to-
| day and those whose records are worth
remembering or kneying, Mr.. Thomp-
son Is familiar, and is known to nearly
all the big college athletes of the east
He began his athletic career as a base
ball and foot ball player with the high
school team Of his native city, captaln-
y
institution. His work in connection
with these teams made him well known
and the Y. NJ. C. A. of Waterbury
was not long in recognizing his good
qualities, and he was called to the cap
taincy of the foot ball team OF tina:
association in 1894. He was then a
youth. but with a good firm build and
well adapted to the game, he also man
aged the team for that season. The
Hillside Athletic club Of Waterburv
secured him as captain for its base
ball team the following spring But he
was soon compelled to give up the
game, owing to the fact that during
the previous fall he had broken his leg
while engaged in the game Of Rugby.
In February of 1895 Mr.. Thompson
entered the Sufiield academy, a pre-
paratory school for Yale, where he bs-
came at once identified with athletics
and was in his first year elected to the
managership of the base ball team
which won the championship Of the ir-
terscholastic league of which Yale was
the patron spirit. He was later elected
to the office Of vice president Of the
league and later managed the foot bail
team for the academy, meeting with
unusual success.
Mike" as Mr. Thompson is famtl-
iarly called by all the boys. came TO
Holy Cross college in September of
1897, entering the freshman class. and
he has not only been a good man in
athletics. but his standing in his class
has always been commendable. Up 20
the time of his advent at the college
on the hill foot ball had but small
corner in the athletics of Holy Cross.
The men did not seem to take hold Of
the game. but Mike" got to work thu.
fall. and was not long in getting II
men out for work, and he himself
coached them. and is considered by
most of the students the father Of the
game at the college. He coached the
team till Dr. A. c. N. Peterson Of the
I. of p. team was secured to fill that
position. Since his coming. the game
has steadily rose at the college till last
wear the men had really made a good
showing among the teams of the col
Iege world. Mike" was elected to the
managership of the team last fall and
piloted the eleven through a most
successful season financially, and as
far as victories were concerned. he had
his share. During the first and second
years at the college he refereed ard
umpired the games for the college and
won admiration from all the teams who
PLAYED under his ruling
Mr. Thompson has never held office
in the athletic association, purely
through choice, for he felt he could do
more good by working on the outside
for the Interests of the institution.
And beyond all question. he is the
most popular student at the college. His
knowledge Of the athletic world has
made him easily a leader among the
boys, aud they have looked to him for