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Show CADETS ARE OUT OF ILLINOIS GAME Academy Officials Not Willing Will-ing to Sanction Trip. There will be plenty of color to the lntersectionui football game in the Illinois Illi-nois stadium November 9 when the Army encounters Illinois, but it will be provided from the Army side by their alumni and friends, rather than the cadet corps and band from West Point Despite repeated announcements for a long time that the cadet corps of 1,500 would not be brought out, some of the GS.000 fans who have tickets and the thousands of other fans who wish they had 'em, take It for granted they will see Uncle Sam's proteges march into the stadium the way that orCy the cadets -nn march. The matter of expense and ines disinclination dis-inclination of the academy authorities to permit such a long trip are the reasons rea-sons the cadets will not come. The only way their appearance could have been financed would have been to charge enormous prices for tickets, as was done for the Army-Navy game at Chicago. There will be many military dignitaries digni-taries and many old grads of West Point here and the famous songs of the Point will resound across the field. The game itself will certainly prove a thriller, unless all predictions are wrong. But the tans who lament the fact that nil tickets are gone may console themselves If their desire to come was based entirely on a belief that the West Pointers would parade. Temporarily overshadowed by the Army game.- the Michigan contest at homecoming October 2b' is coming into in-to its own. Approximately 35.000 tickets are gone and sales are constantly con-stantly Increasing. The homecoming homecom-ing game Is always full of color and with Michigan, a traditional foe, as the opponent, it will come close to the center of the stage as its date approaches. ap-proaches. Raymond Ackerly, big Muskegon high school tackle, has his birth cer-tilicate cer-tilicate to orove the hour of bis birth. That is why Ackerly Insists that he is eligible to play his last game for the Muskegon eleven against Lansing Central Cen-tral November 16. The rule provides that a playei is ineligible when he becomes be-comes twenty years of age. Ackerly's birthday is November 16. the day ol the Lansing game, but his birth certificate cer-tificate shows that he was born at 10 p. m. on the date in question. So Mr. Ackerly contends that he Is eligible to play in the afternoon. Back from a triumphant three-months' three-months' tour of Japan, Michigan's varsity baseball squad, accompanied by Coach Ray Fisher, has resumed work on the campus. During the visit to the Orient the Wolverines won 11 of 13 games, establishing the best record rec-ord of any United States college team in the past thirteen years. The first two world series Barnes played in Chicago netted the Chicago department ot the government $40.-252.20, $40.-252.20, according to Mrs. Myrtle Tanner Tan-ner Blacklidge, collector of Internal revenue for the northern district of Illinois. The government's share was from receipts from boxes and grandstand grand-stand seats. A chapel lias been added to the traveling trav-eling equipment of the football team of the University of Notre Dame, so the players will not miss Sunday services serv-ices during their long trips about the country. Dartmouth and- Depauw university will have places on the Boston university uni-versity 1930 football schedule according accord-ing to announcement made by university univer-sity officials. The Dartmouth game will be played at Hanover, N. H., on a date to be decided upon. The Depauw game is scheduled for November 8. Henri Cochet, one of the famous "musketeers" of the world champion French Davis cup tennis , team, together to-gether with Jacques Brugnon, Raymond Ray-mond Rodel, and Pierre Landry, recently re-cently passed through Montreal on their way the Orient. They are making a pleasure trip to Japan in which they will play in exhibitions and special matches. Later they will play in China. India and Egypt in an effort to Increase the popularity of the game. |