Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-04-05
That England Can
Produce
Are None Too Swift
For Simms.

Art Simms Is after the best that
England has produced. He has issued
challenge to Ben Jordan, the ack-
nowledged champion at his weight.
All of the English lightweights have
heard of Simms and they seem to have
most ardent desire to dodge him.
He has tried to get on with sevcra.
but every match has fallen through
Referring to Simms' visit to Eng
land, Charles f. Mathison, of the New
York Telegraph, says:
"Art Simms, the clever lightweight
of Akron, o.. who is now in England,
seems to experience much trouble in
getting a match He recently chal-
lenged Will Curley, the conuueror of
Sammy Kelly, but not having receiv,
ed n reply, is now prepared to box
Ben Jordan at nine stone for $500 a
side, and the National Sporting club
purse; or will box Tim Hagerty dhe
nine stone champion of Austr8liaO,
for from f200 up to $500 side. 1t is
questionable if Simms would be
strong at 126 pounds, but any one
he meets at 13O would be reasonably
sure of a thrashing."
INDIVIDUAL TOURNAMENT.
The Individual Bowling tournament
which will begin next week promises
to he one of the liveliest events of the
kind held in Akron in years
Every club in the city will have one
or more representatives. The entries
are being received at both Cohen's
and the Grand Half of the games will
be rolled on the Howard st alleys and
the balance at the Grand.
Charles p. Frain, who has won the
individual tournaments for the past
two years will be one of the contest
ants. He is member of the Kirk
woods and AS all the other clubs are
anxious to win laureIs from that Or
ganizatiOn there will be a hot fight TO
down the present champion.
COHEN'S A CONFER.
Frank Cohen, proprietor of the How
ard st. billiard parlors. is rapidly de-
veloping into one of the best pooI
players in Northern Ohio. He has
taken part in number of tournaments
recently and in each he has given a
good account of himself. ThursdayI
night he met Lew Laubscher, of
Cleveland who has the reputation of
being one of the best cue experts In
Northern Ohio He proved to be an
easy mark for the Akron man. who
pocketed 102 balls while Laubscher
was getting ~. Both men made a
number of remarkable shots. In one
frame Cohen made three successive
banks, one of which was cushion
first bank on difficult combination. |
He was loudly applauded. Following
the game Laubscher gave an exhibi-
tion of fancy shots. In this he cannot |
be beaten.
WHITE BEARS COMING.
The White Bears, of Canton, will
invade this city next Tuesday night.
when they will play a return game
with the Akrons on the Grand alleys
The last time these teams played the
White Bears were victorious.
FINAL MEETING.
The Board of Directors of the City
League will meet tonight ut the
Grand to wind up the business of that
organization. The prizes will be given
to the winners of the tournament,
which was recently finished. The
meeting will begin promptly at 1880
o'clock.
POOL TOURNAMENT
In the Glass A handicap at the
Grand Thursday evening, Hard was
defeated by Hall. Hard was to have
played 125 to Halls %. The last
named completed his string while
Hard was making 9S. Tonight In,
skeep and Hall will play.
ANOTHER GUESS COMING.
The Guess club was defeated three
straight on Berrodin's alleys Thurs,
day evening by the Quntettes. The
scores We're:
Quntettes-627, 713, 7O2.
Guesses-5S6, 542, 643.
Tonight the Buckeyes and Crowns
will bowl.
SOCIAL SESSION.