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Show WILLIE HOFPE A "REGULAR GUY" Willie Hoppe, It has been said, is , tho most highly developed, the most nearly perfect world's champion that ever lived Every sport has had its world's ' champions. We have had John L. Sullivan, Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsim-1 mons, Jim Jeffries, Joe Gans, Battling Bat-tling Nelson, Terry McGovern. Abo Attell, Frank Gotch, McLoughlin, Ty Cobb, Mike Kelly, but not one, not a single man Jack of them, has stood as pre-eminently In his particular profession or sport as Hoppe does in his, or as pre-eminently as he probably proba-bly will continue to Btand until his ( whiskers touch the tops of his $25 patent leather shoes. Some there nre who think Hoppe abnormal. Nothing is farther from the truth. Hoppe, in tho parlance of j sport, is a "regular guy." Away from tho billiard table ho is no different than any other 29-year-old young man, ' excepting, perhnps, that he Is much better looking than the average. i Hoppe iBn't particular under what t conditions he plays. He prefers, of ' course, to have comfortnblo surround- ings. But if the room is a trifle cold ( he figures that it is no colder for him than it is for the man ho is playing. I If tho cushions are too hard, or tho i table otherwise defective, he figures ' the samo way that the other fellow 1b as much handicapped as he. |