Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-09-13

at Louisville, Hanrahan was In the
habit of going out for runs on the
road, coming in all overheated and
doing without a rundown, throwing
in great quantities Of beer to cool him
self off and smoking pipe that would
put q navy's short clay to shame. If
the young man continues to train In
this way 1t will not be long until no
loses the strength and stamina that
have made him such dangerous
scrapper.
HIRING FROM SMALL TEAMS.
The hiring of young ball players for
the big league teams continues. First
there was Bracken. After his taking
by Cleveland, comes the hiring of
Gene Wright Managers are moving
and are watching more from the small
teams wherever they can find one who
gives promise of showing results.
COLE TOURNAMENT.
The Portage Golf club is preparing
to hold trl-siate golf tournament III
Akron in October. The meet will en-
brace professional and amateur events
and is in charge of II. w. Smith, the
Portage Golf clubs professional man.
He Is trying to raise funds for the
meet and for prizes for the different
matches.
Some of the golfers who are ex-
pected at this meeting are: Arthur
Smith and Earnest Way, Of Pittsburg,
W. FL. Way and Joe Mitchell, of Cleve-
land; Jack Harrison and Willie Horr,
of Dayton and the O'Neil brothers, OF
Toledo. Besides these there are many
others of fame This will be the big
| gist meeting of golfers that Akron has
had.
LAWSON TALKED.
! Boston, Sept. 13.-(Spl.) 1.-The an
nouncement that Cresceus and the Alb
bot are to race at Readville next week,
| having provoked considerable inquiry
| as to the reason for the cancellation
of the Cresceus- Boralma race, Mr..
! Lawson tonight explained that after
! Charley Herr went lame, thereby pre-
venting his meeting, Cresceus and
b MI. JtWttl, VI llt NtW
land Trotting Horse Breeders Asso-
: citation, suggested that as Boralma had
been beaten by Lord Derby there
would be no interest in Boralma rae
| ing Cresceus. Mr.. Lawson said that
he agreed with Mr.. Jewett, as 1t was
evident that Boralma was not fast
enough for Ketchams horse.
| SIMMS AND SPIKE SULLIVAN.
Joe Macias has written to Art Simms
that he has IA good chance Of fmatch-
ing the Akron man against Spike Sui
llvan, the fight to take place at Hart
ford. Macias does not like the report
that Art Is matched against Jim Dali
ey. the English man and thinks that
Daley Is too heavy for the Akron man.
Macias has challenged the world for
Simms and tho challenge has been
printed in the New York journal.
ARTS ALL RIGHT.
Artlc Simms Is the whole thing In
the east, and the Stratford Herald has
n long description of his fight with Kid
Thomas, In Sunday edition of the
paper issued recently, in which Simms
style Is dissected carefully and com
pared with that of other fighters
Simms is regarded ms not only conner
but as top notch fighter who has al.
ready arrived at the top of the heap
and sporting writers claim for him
all that can be claimed for any fighter.
He IS said to have brains and the
ability of the best of the scrappers
so that II nothing unexpected happens
his career in the ring is predicted ns
a brilliant one, and full of champion.
ship possibilities.
EAST AKRON ORGANIZED.
East Akronites met last night and
organized football team for the sea
son. The hackers OF the team claim
that they have strong outfit and that
the East Akron team Will give some
surprises to other tearms before the
season Is ended. Tho club challenges
any team in the city whose average
weight is not more than 140 pounds
and will open tho season with a game
with the Yales on the first Saturday
In October.