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Show STOP BUSINESS i TO MEET CHAMP - Walter Hoover, Owner of I Diamond Sculls, Is Du luth Hero M'l.l'TH Minn.. July 88. (By the Associated Proas.) DtXluth and all Minnesota today acclaimed Its hero of i the hour Walter HooVor, winner of tr.c- diamond sculls at the English Henley races. emblematic of the world's amateur rowing championship champion-ship Business ceased for one hour while the 4-ity w elcomed t lie premier "nr.i-man "nr.i-man when he arrived at .3o a m. mi T m BAND Bands played martial airs, the crowd shouted and haLs caps and handkerchiefs waved in frenzied greeting. Governor J. A. O. Preus I :is in the Welcoming throng I ll wus more than u mere triumphal hcniie com Ink lor Hoover it was his moat successful birthday party, for today to-day marked the 27th anniversary of his birth WRITES ROWING HISTORY. "Conditions, not the man, won the title." he says But ask tho homo folks, the Duluth Boat club boys, and they will tell you it way the Indomitable In-domitable spirit of Walter Hoover thai wrote rowing history on tho i Thames, To that spirit Duluth paid tribute today n DDL RE GIVEN HOME. I "Hoover" bullous continued on sae j today and it was declarud the lund raised through their sale and voluntary volun-tary subscriptions would exceed 000 with which a "substantial glfl ' will be purchased for Hoover, as a! gift of money would make him a pro-I Fesslonal. a . impletely furnished! home was th.' most generally suggested sug-gested gift. Julius H. Barnes, "discoverer" of Hoover, sponsor of the Duluth Boat1 club, and president of the I'nltcd I States chamber of commerce, was unable un-able to participate In the homecoming homecom-ing celebration aa .Mrs Barnes Is III In New York. In a telegram he urgvd that Hooer go to the Philadelphia !( races in August. |