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In The Spotlight of Sports Ralph Bell Acme reunion Six-day race TO BLOG Wed, Jun 5, 1935 – Page 15 · Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) · Newspapers.com

IN THE SPOTLIGHT OF SPORTS

By RALPH BELL

THE Acme boys are planning another one. What? Why a reunion of course, of members of the Oakland Sports Club organized in 1883 and abandoned before the end of that century, in 1899. This year's reunion is set for Saturday night at the Oakland Elks Club, at Broadway And Twentieth, according to a letter from Jimmy Shanly, who, with John Kitchen Jr. and F. Willis Sharpe, is on the committee in charge. The dinner will start at 6 o'clock.


The reunion this week will be the fifteenth annual for those who were club members and fans 40 years ago, when they took part in or cheered the winners of boxing and wrestling tournaments, bicycle races, road races and gymnasium contests.

The first reunion was held in 1921, and since then the affair has become an annual event to which the old-timers look forward.

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WHEELMEN of the Acme Club began racing against San Francisco riders back in 1893, (part 2) when the 100-mile jaunt around the bay was a big sports event. The 1896 team, they tell me, included Joe Rose, Theodore Schleuter, Walter Decker, Eddie Smith, Jim Kenna, Jack Sampson, George Nissen, Al Swain (who was team captain), M. A. Squired, Jack Howard and Pete Le Fevre.

Among the wrestlers of those days for Acme were Al Leffler, Bradley Myrack, Jack Cook, Jim Clark, Wally Mally, James Bird, Charley Stegman, Fred Kohler, James Conlan, Charles Andrews, Al Lean, Paul Carrol, Jack Williams, Al Wright, Gus Larue, John Twoey and scores of others.

And what a time they'll have Saturday night!

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GATE crashers are going to have a mighty tough time if they anticipate getting through without paying at the Livermore Rodeo Saturday and Sunday. Dave Hope bulletins. "Crash the gate if you can, but don't try any flying wedges or mass formations," he warns.

The reason is that H. L. Wente, rodeo director in charge of the grandstands, has announced that many former St. Mary's football players will be used as ushers, and this should be warning enough for anyone ambitious to emulate One-Eyed Connelly.

Among the ex-Gaels on the job will be Harry Mattos, Toby Hunt, Gordon Partee, Charlie "Rubberlegs" Bairs, Ben Foshay, Bill Lynch, Bill Carpenter, Herc Fletcher and Dutch Rubel.

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AS LONG as we're in this correspondence business, here's one from J. H. G. of Alameda, who postcards: ""Why does not Jimmy McLarnin take on Young Corbett? If he did, Corbett would knock him out." (He answers his question himself, which makes it easy). "Just luck in his last fight with Corbett. McLarnin doesn't want anything to do with Corbett; he would sure be kayoed, and he knows it."

And I thought the McLarnin - Corbett Issue was dead and forgotten

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THE bike riders get away tonight, and the promoter, Eddie Saunders, is hoping for the best. As far as that goes, I wish him luck, but if I were risking any sheckels on the promotion of the six-day affair here I wouldn't be nearly as blase about it as Eddie. I'm still wondering if they'll collect enough to break even. ... Now Grant Rice, the old commentator, breaks out with a baseball guide, which probably contains plenty of zing as well as information.... And it's too bad Toby Irwin isn't a chef somewhere so that the public could sample his production of victuals. He cooked the chopino for the bike racers' dinner to the scribes here last night, and if you like that well-seasoned dish try to induce Toby to prepare you some. He's a past master,

SIX DAY BICYCLE RACE "The Most Thrilling Sport in the World" Wed, Jun 5, 1935 – Page 15 · Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) · Newspapers.com

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