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trophy for the Intercity Baseball ass'n will be presented to the South Chicagos at the annual post-season stag tonight at the Inter Ocean bldg, Investigation of records has cleared members of the Englewood High football team of the charge of being over age. University of Chicago students are backward about wagering their money on the Maroons against Pur due Saturday. Goodly sums have been sent in advance by the Boiler makers to bet at even money,' but the Midwayites are not covering it Stagg is working diligently to hammer into shape a team that can think and pay some attention to teamwork,, but all the dope favors the Purdue eleven, despite the fact it will be without the services of Capt Hake. Consider Jim Thorpe. jjm ;s 28 and he has been through all of the ups and downs of athletics. He was the greatest all-around athlete the world has ever seen That was four years ago, and should he take a no tion to try again there is little doubt that he would repeat For Jim Thorpe, the master red skin, is playing the greatest football of his career this year. He is performing gridiron feats with his team of professionals which ' outdo even those sensational exploits which marked his gridiron career at Carlisle. Managing and captaining a team of professionals which includes such stars as Julian, formerly of the Mich igan Aggies, and Soucy, formerly of Harvard, Thorpe has proved to be the real scoring machine against strong professional teams -made up for the most part of old college stars. LA In a recent game he scored 27 l,: "I am better than I ever was," the big Indian told his friends this falL "A few more years hasn't hurt me in the least Of course, I have taken care of myself." i Star at" all kinds of athletic sporty j Thorpe has proved that under natu ral conditions an athlete does not go back, and that whether he does or not depends to a large measure with himself. EXPERT BOOSTS DUNNE PLAN OF WATER ROUTES What does the Illinois waterway mean to the state of Illinois. Every body knows that Pittsburgh, Pa., has more millionaires than any other city of its size in the world. What made them? It wasn't iron and steel, but it was coal and water. With an unlimited supply of iron ore in Mich igan and situated as we are on the northern boundary of 46.2 more coal than there is in the Pittsburgh dis trict, with the Illinois river, one of the most navigable rivers in the U. S., we can, with the Dunne deep waterway, make this valley a pillar of smoke by day and a pillar of fire by night. These are items for your serious consideration if you have the inter est of your state at heart, and the only thing that will bring about such conditions, together with cheap transportation of all commodities that are manufactured and distrib uted from Illinois. In anticipation of this waterway, there is already pledged by the manufacturers and shippers generally in the state 2,450, 000 tons of freight per annum to go by this route, and I dare say that when the waterway is completed, which can only be under Dunne's ad ministration, you will move the cen ter of manufacture, the center of dis tribution and the financial center to the center of population, where it should be. Water rates are 50 per cent lower than rail rates the world over. W. A. Bertram. New York. Diary published by Lieut Aust, one of surviving officers of German cruiser Karlsruhe, clears mystery of its loss, Nov. 4, 1914, by saying it was destroyed by an inter nal explosion, ftiiltiiiiiftilli