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Show - - - jj U E is til B ft- Q U J a HU phi wi mn iN iKlLAPII) Man Who 1$ to Down Johnson is an Irish Giant NEW YORIv, Junb 30. Bob Vernon, who was walking about Reno a year ago with his soul full of hope, and who left the Nevada city some time after the Fourth of July In a very different frame of mind, will sail for Europe tomorrow In quest of a "white hope.'' He' goes wflh the avowed intention in-tention of bringing from Ireland a lighter who, so far' as physique goes, appears to have all tho requirements. A friend of Vernon in Dublin writes that his find weighs 2-15 pounds, 1b 23 years old, stands 6 feet 3 inches tall and has an Indestructible Jaw. James J. Jeffries, who, with the assistance as-sistance of Jack Johnson, turned Vernon's Ver-non's joy of a year ago into the deepest deep-est gloom, is aboard the Mauretanla which will dock today. It Is 'expected that Vernon and the former champion cham-pion will have a talk on tho general subject of "white hopes" before the former sails. |