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gp J ib." " - T- TWW " H, '-- -- has -written a letter to President Comiskey's office, in which he says he will be as good as ever when the 1914 campaign opens. Edward wants to start spring training early, and may go to California, ahead of the other players. This plan worked wonders for Jim Scott last season. Chicago University can have a football game with Harvard next year if it desires. A question of pride is involved, as the1 Midwayites believe they would be lowering their dignity were they to send a team to Cam bridge and then have the Crimson refuse to play a return engagement the following fall. Coach Williams of Minnesota is much peeved at the prospective game. Minnesota was barred from playing Michigan, and Williams says he does not recognize any rule which would prevent his team playing the Wolverines but would allow Chicago to meet Harvard. Joe Mandot has left for Windsor, Ont., where he meets Patsy Drouil lard in an eight-round bout tomor row night. Fans who watched Man dot work in the local gymnasiums are boosting his chances in the go. Poor old Bombardier Wells. Get ting knocked out has become a habit with that Englishman. Georg Car pentier, the Frenchman, walloped Wells in his glass stomach in the first round in London and the soldier went out for the count. The fight did not last a minute and a half. Knockout Mars bested Frankie Conley in a ten-round go in Cincin nati. Mars had the better of every round and made Conley look like a raw amateur. o o A clergyman catechising a Sunday school, when comparing himself the pastor of the church to a shep herd .and his congregation to the sheep, put the following question to the children: "What does the shep herd dolor the sheep?" A small bov ii the front row piped: "Shears veni" , HOOPS, MILLIONAIRE'S SON, BOUND FOR ASYLUM Harold Fabyan Hoops, known jto those who make up the night hfe of Chicago as "Hoops, my dear," the gayest of the gay, has turned his back on the white" lights and this morning is on his way to the Elgin Insane Asy lum. Hoops, who is the son of William H. Hoops, the Wabash avenue mil lionaire, has had a stormy time of it during his twenty-two years on earth. His friends were not surprised when he was first arrested for flirt ing. "It's just like him," they all said. But his father stuck to him and got him out of the jam. Then Harold began to hit the high road. He achieved the distinction of knowing every waiter in town by his first name. But Harold fell from grace again and. was arrested for passing a bad check. And father failed to come across with any 'aid. But Harold never whimpered. He went out to the Bridewell and served three weeks. And Supt. John Whit man claims he was a very good pris oner. Sunday night young Hoops was ar rested for the third time. The elder Hoops then went before Judge Owens and asked that his boy be sent to an asylum. "Why do you all these wild things?" asked the judge. "I guess I'm crazy, your honor," the boy replied. "I often have bad spells. Sometimes as often as eight times a year. Then two doctors said he was in sane, due in part to the liquor habit. Judge Owens then asked the boy if he would go to the asylum. Hoops hesitated. Then finally "I'll go," he almost whispered. And two husky bailiffs led him away. o o Fifty-five per cent of last Tuesday's vote at Santa Monica, Cal., was that of women, and Sunday closing of sa loons was beaten 3 to 1. Can you beat it?