Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-15
BIG INDOOR MEET.
Arthur Dnffey Will Run Against a
 Western Crack.

The, biggest indoor athletic meeting of the year will undoubtedly be that Of Columbia university at Madison square Garden on January 30. Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Irincetop, Penn sylvania, Amherst, Cornell, Williams, Georgetown and several other colleges Will be represented at the games. Which promise to attain the impor- tance of an intercollegiate champion ship meeting.
 As a matter of fact the men in charge of athletic affairs at Colnm bia hope to develop this annual meeting under the auspices Of Columbia into the recognized indoor championships of the Intercollegiate association. Lne coming meeting cannot be regarded as 2 set of championship games for the reason that majority of the events are relay races and several of the other contests are handicaps.
 There will be one genuine champion ship event on the program, however, door championship of the United States. The event has been sanctioned by the Amateur Athletic union. and such famous athletes as Arthur Duffey of Georgetown and Archie Hahn of the University of Michigan will be among the competitors.
 Duffey is; rated the most wonderful sprinter that ever donned spiked shoe. He holds the worlds. record of g 3-5 seconds for 10J yards, and is also one of the holders of the records of s 2-5 seconds for sixty yards.
 Hahn won both the American and Canadian championships fdr 100 yards last summer, going the distance in the cracking good time of 9 4-5 seconds. tie that Duffey has not beaten for 8 year There are many people in the west who believe that Hahn is quite as good as Duffey for sixty yards. The latter has only succeeded in equaIing the record three or four times. He usually runs the distance in 6 3-5 sec onds.
 Both men are undergoing a special preparation for the event, and if they both show up on tile mark in fine con dition there is just a chance of this old record, which has stood for many years, being beaten.
 It will be contest between the fast est man in the west and the top-notch sprinter of the east. Should Duffey meet with defeat there will be much growing in the athletic cigcles in the west. Hahn is undoubtedly the best man that Duffey has been called upon to measure strides with on either side of the Atlantic in years. and there is just chance of the little Georgetown flyer. who has been the king of the sprinters since the passing of Wefers, meeting his Waterloo.
 Duffey has been at the top of the heap longer than any of the previous chapion sprinters. Old athletes think that his downfall issa bout due and say that Hahn. may be the man to cause 1t.
 This IS Duffey's last season on the track With such foe as Hahn he will be lucky to finish the season. which will end with the worlds fair games next summer, still wearing the Iaurels of the champion sprinter of the world.
 Yale. Harvard, CoIumbia Cornell, Princeton and Pennsylvania cannot look forward to dividing the honors ill the relay laces. Amherst will send down the one-mile team that beat ev- erything at the recent indoor games of the Boston Athletic association, and Georgetown will be represented by a team that will take a lot of beating. The Amherst students will bring along