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SPROUL WILL
Get BIG VOTE
Expected TO Poll 200 on the
Second Ballot.
BETTING ODDS ON HIM DROP
Heads of Half dozen State Delega-
tons Visit the GoVernor-Burke Re-
wives Knox Boom.

Chicago. June 1O.-DelegatiOns are
knocking at the door Of Pennsylva
MIA
After all night conferences, leaders
Of the boom of Governor Sproul for
the Republican presidential nomina
ton said Sproul stock was soaring
Indications of the impression the
candidacy of the Pennsylvania govern
or is making is the betting.
Odds Of twenty to one were given on
the governor. when his name as
presidential possibility first was
preached They have dropped five
TO one.
Governor Sproul received heads Of
half dozen state delegations at his
suite in the Blackstone Hotel before
he left for the Coliseum
The governor was in a jOvial mood.
"Everything is going fine he said.
Reports | receive are very encour-
aging.
Leaders of the SprOul campaign pre-
diet the real strength Of the Pennsyl-
vaniam will begin to develop on the
second ballot. A vote Of at least 100
on the first ballot is confidently looked
for and it is expected to jump TO 200
on the second ballot.
Interests which leaned to the candi-
dacy of Samuel NJ. Nauclain, president
of the Baldwin Locomotive Works,
have transferred their affections to
The Knox balloon.
rrbn ,hioct iS Tn tho jmnrpS-
sion the Pennsylvania delegation OF
Seventy-six is not solidly supporting
Governor SprOul.
Congressman James Francis Burke,
Of Pittsburgh, heads group of Pitts
burgh men who are advocating Knox.
Burke previously had pronounced a
benediction over the Knox boomlet,
but he liberated a Knox smoke screen
in front of the SprOul candidacy.
Governor Sproul accompanied his
wife and daughter to the convention
hall and after eScOrting them to their
seats, took his chair at the head OF
the Pennsylvania delegation.
The governor was warmly received
by members of the delegations seated
nearby. The governors sturdy figure
was target of many hundreds OF
eyes. The governor was kept busy
few minutes shaking hands. Samuel
NJ Vauclain sat in the same row with
the governor, as he did the day pre-
viOus
A swarm of delegates tiocked about
Governor SprOul as soon as the con-
vention adjourned. With Senator
Lodge permanent chairman, and VIII
Hays, chairman of the national COM
mittee intereStedly overlooking him a
few minutes, the governor held a re-
ception.
The majority of the Missouri dele
CATION walked past the governor, each
man shaking his hand.
lzz1szs] f@zwafffs= Re-hands with the
man who will get my vote for the
nomination." said one Of the represen-
tatives from the "show me" state.
AS an awakener of curiosity Gov
ernor Sproul eclipses all other figures
on the floor. One Chicago newspaper
calls the governor the handsomest
man in the Coliseum"
The feeling seems to grow that
Sproul is going to start something and
scouts of the other candidates have
their eyes riveted on the Pennsylva-
MIA delegation in anticipation OF
move that will start a demonstration
for the governor.
Governors of eleven states are sup
porting SprOul.
4 host of influential men, represen-
ratiyes both of big business interests
and labor, are backing him. There are
sufficient forces greasing his cand1-
dacy to make the Pennsylvania Gov
ernor the most formidable candidate in
the field.
Vauclain formally swore in for the
governor. Mr.. Vauclain mas lost mis-
presidential boom in the shuttle.