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Show BOB VERNON STARTS LOOKING FOR "HOPE" s XEW YORK, June 30. Boh Vernon, who waa walking about Reno a year ago with his soul full of hope, and who left tha Nevada city some time after the Fourth of July in a very different frame of mind, will sail for Europe tomorrow to-morrow in quest of a "white hope." He goes with the avowed intention of bringing from Ireland a fighter who, so far as his physique goes, appears to answer all requirements. A friend of Vernon of Dunlin writct that hit find weighs 21"; pounds, is 23 years old, stands 6 feet 3 inches tall and hat an indestructible .iaw. Jamea .1. Jeffries, who with the assistance as-sistance of Jack Johnson, turned Ver non 't joy of et year ago into deepest gloom, is aboard the Mauretania which will dock today. It is expected' that Vernon and the former champion will have talk on the general subject of "white hopes'' before the former aailt. |