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Show WILLIE HOPPE SORRY THATHEWEWT BACK Wonderful "Boy" Billiardist Impolitely Shooed Out of France. Cablegrams printed in Tho Tribune recently re-cently announcing that Woe Willie Hoppe has been told that Franco does not want him. may havo surprised some of his Salt Lake friends, but they will not waste much sympathy on the billiard phenomenon. Tloppe, who has been "a mere boy" for more than he will admit, has learned that the memory of the French pollco le longer than that of the authorities In some American cities where his tactics havo ben called into nuen-llon. nuen-llon. hut his peccadilloes forgotten on his departure. In 1007 Willie's Paris friends brought him absolutely accurate Information that because of betting on his own irame the French police had issued an order expelling ex-pelling him from the country- Willie made nn abrupt exit before ih police had a chance to srve I he mandate. Now, from 1007 to 1011 Is a Ions: time for police to remember anything, consequently Wcc Willie made. his appearance in France recently re-cently (u1to bold and pprt. Was he not the "boy wonder," and was It possible that anyone, even the coldblooded cold-blooded French pollco, wore not glad lo gy.e on his costly raiment? Willie had just handed n. apeclal brand of elgarettos to tho l-Yeuch sportiiiK writers and was accustoming himself to absinthe, when th". Impolite order was dug up again and thin time It was served before Wlllh- could dodge it. Apparently the American bllllardlHt did not enjoy being pointed out n-s a man who had Just been expelled from France for ho quickly abandoned his posing in hotel corridors and inndo his eK with such ' dispatch that cviln the French police were satis-fled. satis-fled. Doubtless lie had been told that oven a wonderful billiard player could not. hope to Invoke his embassador's aid after having placed bets on hits own game. Willie, before ho returnn to France, will find out whether the order Is still in existence, ex-istence, but from present Indications. It IooIch as If ho will havo to import whatever what-ever champagne h wants as he will nevermore be allowed to visit the. land where it Is produced. George Sutton, the American liilliard-isl, liilliard-isl, was expelled at the same time Hoppe was. but Sutton did not try to "come back." |