Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-09
MICHAEL THOMPSON MANAGER
The Waterbury Boy is Making Good
 Progress Down South.

son and his work for the Georgetown university:
 Last year Washington saw one of the largest indoor athletic meets ever held in this country. 1t was given under the auspices of the Georgetown University Athletic association in Con- vention hall. Nearly 300 crack ath- letes of the country were on hand, and the meet was conducted on such liberal plans that it frequently was re- ferred to thereafter as "GeorgetoWns massive meet" It was the first time big indoor meet had ever been at tempted in this city, and the credit for the success was largely due to Graduate Manager Thompson, who set out weeks before to accomplish just what was accomplished.
 This year Mir Thompson is working on another indoor meet, to be held in Convention hall, February p. He is working just as hard as he did last year, and the chances are that he will achieve an even greater success, for the splendid results of last years meeting will enhance the meet set for next month. Entry blanks for the coming meet are now being sent out, and for the next six weeks the affair will be boomed. It Is expected that many of the colleges and athletic clubs of the eastern states will be rep resented with teams. So far the only college that has announced for sure that it will be here is Cornell. Charles Young, a Washington boy, is captain of the Cornell team, and it was through his efforts that the Cor nell team was secured.
 The program arranged by Manager Thompson includes fourteen events, and it is divided into three sets of eyents-athletic club events, college events and schoolboys' events. In the first there will be a 50-yard dash, handicap; S20-yard dash, handicap; 440-yard run, SS0-yard run, handicap; high jump, handicap; 16-pound shot put, handicap, and a regimental team race. For the colleges there will be a 50-yard dash, an SS0-yard run, and a relay race. In the schoOlboys' events there will be 50-yard dash, S80-yard run, and relay race. The entries will close February 14. MT Thomp- son will also endeavor to have relay race between teams from West Point and Annapolis. Such a race, he be lieves, would prove the most interest 1 ing feature of the program. Among the college relay teams, Cornell and Pennsylvania already have signified their intention of entering.
 | Georgetown university will have her best men entered in the meet. Duffy of 1OO-yard dash fame, will be in both 1 the handicap 5O-yard event and in the college 50-yard event Georgetown also has a good lot of quartermilers l in Holland, Owens, Kelley, Lynch and Edmonston. Kelley will be used ill I the half-mile run, too, and in this he l is conceded to have a good show fol l first honors. Georgetown's relay ! team will not be selected until after l the indoor games of the Boston Ath 1 letic association, February 8. George 1 town will send a relay team to this meet. but whether it will be the same ] team that will participate ill the local meet will depend upon it's success in l Boston Duffy, also, will take part 1 in the Boston games. Another pre- 1 paratory set of games for the George 1 town athletes will be that of the Knickerbocker Athletic club, of New York, February 3.
 Tn the meet for next month, Mana ger Thompson is making a special eff fort to get southern colleges interest ed. Track athletics in southern col 1 leges have never amounted to much for the reason that this particular form of sport has never been giveT the necessary impetus in the south ! The southern colleges turn out gooo football and baseball teams, and there is no doubt that they would prove l equally successful ill athletics were they to turn their attention to them.
 The question of trainer for tho Georgetown team will be settled this
 week, when a successor to Trainer Foley will be chosen. Wednesday afternoon the athletic squad was
 called out The men will practice or
 the indoor track, which has a straight
 away of eighty yards. For the ac
 commodation of the long distanc
 men, Manager Thompson has been fig
 uring on 220-yard track on, the base
 ball field It is believed that if out
 door tracks can be used by Northern
 colleges during the winter months
 such track certainly would prove val
 uabla to Georgetowns men, for in
 reason that the weather here is muc
 more conducive to outdoor work
 The success attained by the George
 town athletes in last years meet wa
 such as to arouse more interest il
 track work than has ever before bee,
 shown here and Georgetown's squa this year will number at least seventy fivn !.