Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-12-05
B. nj. Frees Was Elected
President.
RampaneIIi Leads In the Pool
Tournament.
Rubin Preparing For BattIe-LOcal
Sporting News.


From present indications the bowl
ing teams of Akron will take steps
to decide the championship Of the
city. Tuesday night the various clubs
were represented at meeting held
at o. G. Brownells music store. A
permanent organization was formed
by the election of the following offl
GERS: President, Il. NJ. Freese; vice
president, Frank Cohen; secretary
and treasurer, Ed. Bechtel. A MEM
ber of each club will be chosen to
constitute board of directors.
The League will arrange no sched-
ule until the rules governing such
events, are received from the secre
tary of the National American Bowl
ing Association. 1t is believed that
half dozen and possibly more teams
will enter the race. Besides settling
the question of championship the
tournament will furnish splendid
amusement to the bowlers.
THEY DESERVE SUCCESS.
What promises to be one of the lead
ing athletic clubs of the city has just
organized The West Hill Grays Ath-
letic club Is the name of the new organ
ization and the West Hill Grays base
ball team of 1900 Is back of It. They
have secured control of the rooms on
Green ST. and are already making ex-
tensive improvements on the building.
the interests of the West Hill people
In all kinds OF athletics 1t is their
intention to put strong base ball
team In the field next season and they
already have enough football players
to assure them strong team In 1901.
Credit should be given to the promo.
ters of this club. Their base ball team
of 1900 was an independent organlza-
tion. The players. all young men, by
their own hard work, succeeded In oh.
tainlng uniforms, gloves, etc. They
went against some of the best teams
In the county and succeeded In win
ming good percentage of the games
they played. One thing they can boast
OF which no other team In the city
can boast of Is that of never having n
ringer In a single game. The success
OF the team was due in no small meas
Il,
Mark Helfernan, probably the only
one-legged pitcher in the world, and
William Price, their star catcher. They
have nent application blank aud VIII
receive a large number of new mem
bers next Friday night, A week from
Friday night they will elect new OH
GERS. The officers of the club at pres
ent are Mark Hef'ernan, president;
John Riechert, vice president; Fred
Riechart, treasurer; VIM. McCaslln, re,
cording secretary; Louis Baker. Gnan
clal secretary; VIM. Jennings, CORE
spending secretary, There are lots OF
West Hill people who Ike TO see q
good game of base ball, foot ball, etc.
and as these young men have started
the ball rolling, all they need is the
support of these people and they will
be able 10 hold their own with any
other organization In the city.
RAMP. IN THE LEAD.
Rampanelli retained his lead over
Met Hard in Tuesday nights play OF
the pool match now a progress on the
Howard st. billiard parlors. The score
for the evening stood Rampanclli OF,
Hard 81. The total score stands Ram
paneIli POI, Hard 100.
BROKE EVEN.
The Peerless and Cereals broke even
In their match game Tuesday night.
The first game went te the Cereals by