Arizona republican., 1914-06-07
OLO SIX DAY RUNNERS ARE
 HUSKY STILL
Cowboy Smith, One of the Famous Athletes of Elder Generation, Tells of Well Known Distance M en Who Survived the Game

Who Survived the Game
 Cowboy" smith and his wife, both l clever vaudeville performers are holding down the boards at the l Columbia under the stage titles of ] Albert and Rozela. Twenty years ago smith was one of the famous athletes of the world. He was a six day runner and his name was linked with such celebrities as George Littlewood. Jimmy Alberts, Gus Guerrero and sport Campana. Smith began running in England where he made his reputation Financial inducements tempted him to visit America, where eventually ne made his home. After the six day sport perished, smith and his wife. who was also d runner in her ! younger days, adopted the stage as l their calling.
 One of smiths running records was made at Waterbury, Connecticut, where he did = miles in r. hours. 1 He also has the distinction of walk 1 ing heel and toe, h miles in l hour, l A. minutes and T. seconds, and 100 wards. heel and toe. in IA seconds. l Yes, | keep in touch with all the 1 cid runners in my business, as We l are travelling about a great deal and ] am glad to say that the large ma 1 icrity of them are doing well finan- l cially. and they promise to live to ripe old ages and enjoy the best Of health sad smith yesterday, while | in a reminiscent mood. "A few have l which was to be expected but the
 old runners, as q whole, are more
 than making a stand off of life
 George LittleWood, the champion
 of all champions, is living in Shef-
 field, England He is very well-to-
 do, and when I heard from him last
 he was in splendid health. His rec
 ord of 623 miles 1920 yards in six
 days made in the early sos stil
 stands and l guess it always will Truly. LittleWOOd was wonderful
 runner He used to make us dizzy : trying to keep within shooting dis 1 tdnce O1 him.
 Jimmy Aiberts, l guess. had nor.
 money than any of the old gang He is at the head of q large cattl,
 ranch in Texas, and he is making SC
 much money that he cant spend i all When we go through Texas, h.
 comes over to the show and w ; reminisce. Next to Littlewood, : ! ir ? ! of those days He made mari
 once of G21 miles in six days, whicl l l was d great piece of running. ? Gus Guerrero. You remembe
 Gus Guerrero? Everybody doe. r When we are in New York we ofte 7 l meet him on the l. road. He is 2 conductor on one of the trains an
 looks as young as when he was O ], the track
 Norman Taylor, the pie-e cate y called so because he trained an e raced on pies, must be eighty cd :, now Minneapolis is his home, an
 believe he has q job with the cit, y When he was S2 years old he cele
 brated by running from Mnneapol
 over to St. Paul and back He jus 't wanted to show his friends that r had something left. Running lon e races and enduring all sorts of hard n ships certainly never injured him e Sport Campana dropped by u u Wayside a few years ago and w. Af buried somewhere in the middle Wes II had many a brush with Sport c g the track He was glutton f, 1T work.
 Bill Hoagland is running hot d at Union Springs, New York, ar
 doing good business.
 T. Bobby Vint is living comfortab 1f in san Francisco, and I saw hi
 only the other day. He seems to ie holding his own. When he was rul Il. ming a newspaper boys dubbed hi 10 the Brooklyn Showmaker.
 th George Normac, who was som
 times called the flying Scotchman, . conducting d hotel at Germantow .: just a few miles out of Philadelphi
 Tn those days there were sever
 colored runners, but there was o ! and only one-and that was Fral
 Hart The boys all recognized hi is as great runner The last I hea SC of him he was dying of tuberculos ed in Chicago. I was sorry to hear
 for we all liked Frank.
 ee Other runners of lesser note as might name are enjoying go es health in different parts of t
 country and seem to be eating re ed ularly. It was q great sport and. q tl- spite its hardshps, we had go CT times"