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Show UTAH LOSES NOTED GOLF STAR I . ' W V , ; ' . s I i - : 1 Y i i 1 . I I t . . . . .Si TTAH W another luminary.' W It seems like only yesterday that Los Angeles stretched forth its boosting paw and gralibed Jack Dempsey from our very midst. Within a week or ten days, George "Oix" Von Kim, the greatest golfer that Uth has produced and acknowledged by critics of the game as the coming champion of the nation, will pack his bag, aud leave for Ixis Angeles to make his home. The loss of Von Elm is an irreparable loss to Utah golf ranks. The yowigster returned re-turned a week ago from Chicago, where he competed in the national amateur tournament. Ilia play in that meet brought forth the opinion from (irantland Kice, Jesse Guilford and others who know, that Uix ia a coming naJinnal titleholder. With tho breaks hU way coupled with his superb, game, he will bo unbeatable. Oi is going to Los Angeles to accept a very lucrative offer. He refuses to talk of it himself, but whatever he does in the southland, there ia 110 denying that Utah is loser by long tfdds, for Gil is expected to step forth and annex that coveted national title. And when that day arrives, California will annex the honor that ia due to Salt Lake and Utah. . |