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Show Hi Will there be a new world hero come-forth come-forth from the 1920 Olympic games? Since 1896, with tho revival of the modern I '1 mp'ad. tome hero has I Jumped Into the superman classlii-I classlii-I cation in each world meet. Each is wlncd and dined feted and j loved for a time. Then another comes jand the first are forgotten. Probablj none ever stood out more ' prominentia- than did that great Indian. In-dian. Jim Thorp. . Although they I took away his medals on charges of professionalism soon after, yet they could not take away his marvelous records. There waa something about the in-,dian in-,dian that H"kL- of greatness which has never died, Th romanticism of his ancestry, the bigness of Ids heart, the quiet way in . ntoh he returned the greatest collection of trophies ever won will never be forp:ottn ; And the Thorpe of today Is the game wonderman he was in 1912. He is still the athlete the hero the superman, and yet his name la erased from the record books. JACK COOK. Krnle Johnson is lo stay with the j Salt Lake Lues the remainder ot thio; season, regardless of rumors that the Giants have picked him off Jack Cook, secretary of the Bees, says: I 'Wo think we hae a fine chance j to win the pennant this season, and we would not be foolish enough to part with Johnson. He is our most, valuable player, aside from the fact that he is maklnK good as manager; of the club, with both feet He la 'worth twice as much to us as he Is t to New Vork. That's wh we are go-; lng to keep him. Wo will consider, letting him go to the Giants this fall, n.i we would not stand In his way If he can better himself." |