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Show 110 CONTESTS Jim Thorpe Has Fast Crew in Harness for 1920 Tilts; Casey to Play The professional football season will; soon be on in full swing in northeastern north-eastern Ohio, and according to earlv tcports it will live up to Its past reputation repu-tation In the matte,- of the expendi-, ture of money with almost reckless abandon. Canton, Massillon. Cleve- ' land and Columbus will be the head-quarters head-quarters of the leading professional! grid machines, and even now the backers In these cities are outbidding one another in their efforts to land the cream of the former College tal-1 ent. Jim Thorpe, famed Indian athlete. r-iyun uie oimieui tor Akron'' new International League dub. win , he at Ihe helm In Canton. Thorp, ' h id i h irge of the Canton cluh tor the past six ears and now holds tni professional championship of the world If there is such a title Thorpe does not intend to be outdone out-done by an) of his competitors. ..s h. has i already made -strenuous efforts land Lddie Casey, former Harvard s a, gndder. who this fall will , . tne Mount l nion college team at Alliance. Al-liance. Ohio Casey was offered SeOU per same to don the moleskin for the. ' a iton club, and soon after the offer was made he received a wire from d.-.sMll,.,, pr..iot. rs advi.sing h.rn the would pay mon for hie servlcee than an other club. CaseV received the offi re with ., smile and gave a prom-i prom-i lse to "think it over." Kxpense means nothing to the promoters pro-moters of the professional grid game Parentis , The lev eland promoter B 'o said to have spent several bundle I dollar, already In an effore to lanj tin K ' Harley, former Ohio Stale Star, buj Harlc will i,..t , onsid. n,, offer because he has alreadj afecentod a position at ( ihlo State as assia mt coach to John Wiles Jim Thorpe says Canton will h, at least 18 players this season and all of them will be men who won fame on the college gridirons, if it I, possible possi-ble to interest that number The pro-1 resslonal teams play their games on Sundaj and according to present plans will open their season the first Sun-da Sun-da In October. |