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Show PiSPOmiGHT ygSsVy GmnflandRice (Copyright, lr--, New York Tribune. Inc. 'I rflide Mark Registered, U. S. Patent Office. BATTLING SI K I "Battling" siki. thi- senegalese, ftfay be a Champ or he may be a cheese; The Siki swat hurt Carp a lot, But the I nij.si.y pace Is a bit more ; hot. The say he's tall as a Siklniore In the candle light of a Wabash , shore; Whether he can or whether he can't , I hope he isn't a Slklphant. There must be a ring in the atmos- phere I, When "Sic him, Siki." roll loud and L clear. ( And aecordlUK to Carp who felt the warp. He heard the birds and the tinkling harp. He knows how to trip with his hlns and knees. Does "Battling" Siki. the Senegalese, i ' If Siki fights Wills he will have to i give away more than thirty poukds." And he will have to take more than he i gives away. On the otlo i- paw, If Siki is permitted permit-ted to enter the ring with one of those' Senegalese bowie knives, as is often the i ustom of his tribe, even Dempsey might pause a brief moment before it ttinp; a right hook fly. ( RIDIR4 l i CB3NGS No 7 Iowa Then Ore certain periods when a football team can lose five regulars md still fill many of the open spaces in a most acceptable way. But when a football team loses five stars such as Aubrey Devinc, Glen I '. vine. 1'uke Slater Lester Beldinf ind Heldt at center, the shock Is a trifle abnormal in Its intensity. Devtne, Slater and Holding wore three of th-- greatest football players in the world when Iowa took her coti-.iiierlng coti-.iiierlng march last fall. I b re seems' to be conclusive evl- ience that Aubrey Devinc was the I rreatest quarterbaak in America, and i lat.-r was the greatest tackle. But since they are gone, they are rone, and that's the end to't. M VI' FR I VL LKFT A few days ago we had a father ind son act when Charley Moran's Centre college team defeated a ma-shine ma-shine coached by his son. Tom. Xow we have a brother act when Howard Jones crosses half the continent conti-nent to face Tad In the big bowl. In spite of the loss of such spectac- ular stars, Howard Jones will have his share of strong material headed by Captain Gordon Locke, the plunging fullback. In addition to Locke he will have Shuttleworth. White, Miller, Colby and Sellng for backfiehl positions, with Meade, Minnick, Krltz. Harding. Thompson, Gotten liarn tl and others ready from flank to flank. So while the IIakeyo detachment will hardly bo as strong as It was last fall, it will be stout enough to give ,i ul. one ol the busiest afternoons the Blue will know all season long. This will l- Iowa's first intersectlon-al intersectlon-al gam.-, and she has no intention of making any ragged showing or failing down heavilg on her first long eastern haul. Now and then some prediction comes true. "When Carpentier lost to i.-nips.-v i Frenchman told us iome inn. ago "in lost (.. n better man In ever" way But you will find that he is going to lose his next fight to hie own COni Bit and careleSSnOSa Georges is a tine boxer, but not unite a brilliant bril-liant as he thinks ho is.' ' Michigan, after helping to dedicate new stadiums at Vanderbllt and Ohio State this month, stands ready to indorse in-dorse the building boom wherever her dedicatory services are retjuirsd. The new stadium at Vanderbllt takes top place in the south while the Ohio Shite coliseum is the finest structure of its' kind in the world. It has been suggested that the world series be made, a roving proposition as the golf and tennis championships now an but so far as we know, no move in this direction hns yet been officially j made. |