Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-10-08
SILENT
But Exceedingly
Busy.
South End Athletes
Getting Ready.
jenkins and Rooney
WrestIe Tonight.
Sir Thomas Upton Not Yet Salts.
fled With Results.

great deal at present, but they are
acting with great deal of continuity
and the results of their silence will be
heard from shortly in bowling tour
ments and foot ball games. Every
night sees several members Of bowl
ing teams hard at work, or runners
and foot ball players training at the
club house.
All are earnest in their work and
will get into the best possible shape
for the games that will confront them
this fall and winter. There Is a great
deal of club pride in this organization
and the members will feel very much
disappointed If they are not among
the winners. This is what has made
them work so hard and it is evident
that they will not be greatly disap-
pointed when the time comes to pick
the winners.
Art Slmms works hard at the club
day by day and Is getting into the
kind Of condition that has won fights
for him before. His sparring part
ners, whom he picks up day by day
and who promptly regret their yolun-
tary contribution of target for Arts
fists, desert with equal promptness af-
ter bout or two with the champion.
Frank Cassidy, who trained Art
before and in whom smms has Il
great deal of confidence has been too
busy lately to give much of his time
and attention to the preparation of
the fighter Still Simms is doing very
nicely, and whether the fight be with
Duffy, Lavigne or even "Terrible
Terry" whoever II is win find that
Artie has not gone back"
VALUE OF REPUTATIONS.
The contests at the Stadium at the
Pan-American Exposition this summer
demonstrated that superiority in ash-
letlcs was not necessarily the product
OF II big school or college. The cham
pions of the east and the colleges of
the big cities are prominent more
because of the publicity they receive
than any particular excellence.
The ease with which many of the
events at the Pan were won by fel.
lows unheard of before show
ed that athletes are born
and bred everywhere The ease
with which some well known athlete
held all comers at bny for so long n
time In some of the events went to
show that the public was afraid OF
regulations. and when some young
fellow of real merit went into th,
contests and made up his mind that
he could deliver the goods, there was
usually prize waiting for him when
he was done.
That Is one Of the things that makes
the decrease Of interest in athletics
at Bnchtel most lamentnble. The mw
material is there and only the lack of
Interest and support can make ef.
forts In athletics at Buchtel result
In anything but success.
ROONEY AND JENKINS TONIGHT
Tom Jenkins and Rooney the Grip
man. VIII meet tonight az the Contra
Armory, Cleveland, and decide theh
merits at catch-as catch.can wrestling
There has been great deal OF inter
est taken In the match by Cleveland
sports aud the advance sale of seat,
has been unusually large. The fan,
VIII be decided at the one style an,
there is considerable speculation n,
10 the winner, both men having plent,
,of friends who have faith In them
The betting is slightly in Jenkins fa
vor. The winner will receive 81, 90,
and the loser $500,
Upton DISSATISFIED.
Sir Thomas Upton still has an idei
that the respective merits Of Shamroel
and Columbia have not been fully dc
cided. He wants to arrange for an
other match race and says that th
proposition TO change crews and rae
the boats that way did not come fror
him. II is therefore possible ths
Upton win use the Shamrock as hi
challenger next year, when he come
back and tries TO lift the cup agail
as he says he is determined TO do.
When Upton goes home this wlnte
Shamrock will not go along Tn
yacht will he dismantled for the vii
ter and viii be taken 10 New Londo,