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  1.                                  both demanding multi-
  2.                                  event competitions.
  3.  
  4.                                  Jim was a star in the early 
  5.                                  days of pro football. 
  6. There was no national pro football league 
  7. when he signed with a team called the
  8. Canton Bulldogs in 1915 for $250 a game.
  9. He also played pro baseball for seven years,
  10. from 1913 through 1919. 
  11.  
  12. On the football field, Jim led the Bulldogs to 
  13. the Ohio League championship in 1916, 
  14. 1917, and 1919. In 1920, while he was still
  15. a player, he also served as president of the
  16. new American Professional Football
  17. Association. (The association became the
  18. National Football League in 1922.) 
  19.