The evening world. Newspaper, July 17, 1912, Page 10

UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORF |, Some Interesting Facts About it James Thorpe, World’s Great- t All-Around Athlete. Congriht, 1012, by The Pre Publishing Co New York World). 66 OUL ar, are the most wo athlete tn the world King Gustave of Sweden te James Thorpe of America as the great Carlisle School Indian rounded out fourth year of athletic competition with the winning of tho Pentathlon and the Decathion at the Olymptc Games in Stockholm, Two thousand years ago these were the most important events ‘on the Olympic list, As an all-around athlete Thorpe has eclipsed the performances of the once incomparable Martin Sheridan as well those of the best men of all other countri The new marvel of track and field sports is a Sac and Fox Indian. He was born in Oklahoma, and it was from Sprague, Okla, that he came East to Carlisle four year Physically, he is a magnificent spect men, fit to be compared with the great- eet of the ancient Greeks, whose per- fegtion has come down to us perpetuated in Pentalic marble. ‘Thorpe stands a little over six feet in ‘nelght. ‘Stripped, he weighs 178 poun He ‘ts all lean muscle, and his skin | drown with the tint given by the hot Bouthwestern sun. He is Indian tn — feature, from his high cheek aggressive nose and strong ipecs to he a wy limbs and torso. "“Po-day he is twenty-five years of age. Four years ago, in 1908, when Thorpe (entered Carlisle, he was just an un- “known Indian, He had never competed Ma athletic sports, although, like every joy im America, he had played a little Daseball and football. His chief sport had been hunting. He was known at shome ae a good shot and a successful shumter, Long days and nights on the “tral and in hunting camps gave him the speed and endurance that later made | him famous, IN. Carlisle young ‘Thorpe was quickly Picked up by the coaches in differ- ent lines of sport, who recognized ‘Nie undeveloped talent as soon as they *aw him in action. In a short time he ‘was a member of the baseball nine, the {football and lacrosse and hockey and teams, | Last year he became famous through *hia great work on the gridiron, In the Carliste-Harvard game he took four chances at field goals, two from place- ment and two drop kicks. He kicked four goals in four tries, the longert from placement being forty-five yards. at once brought him recognition as GHATS SLAM BALL AT RIGHT TIME IN GAME WITH PIRATES Cammitz Wasn't a Puzzle by|Train Wreck Delays Dahlen’s Any Means Against Math- HURDLES % SEC.. rms, PENTATHLON. Running broad sa Javelin throw. DECATHLON, ++ 88 feet 8 1-4 inches, 8.89 metres. ++ 470 metres. Thorpe’s Record iu Pentathion and Decathlon Which Stamps Him Greatest Athlete of All Time {98 metres 67 centimetres, 4 minutes 44 seconds. ewson To-Day. BATTING ORDER, JAMES THORPE, GREATES - | DODGERS W ST. Lous: JUST IN TIME 10 TACKLE CARDINALS Sarts Series. BATTING ORDER. Men Six Hours—Rucker ; " St. Louts, ‘ooklyn, the greatest punter in America, In the| New York. Prieta Huggins, 2b, wee Brown game he tried two field goals and | Devpre If eee oe Hills, Hf Northen, if é Made them both. This was in his thira| Roe 2% meni W. smith, R. Smith, ab, season on the Carlisle team, Glen War-| Merkle, tb. Wagner, 98, money. 3, Dasher. dy, ner, the famous Indian coach, says that | Murray, rf Miller, i yee Fe Thotpe 1s the best halfback he has seen | Herzog, 3b, Wilson, © Gahan et” fm all of his experience. At the end of | Meyers, MoCarth: Bresnahan, ¢ the season Thorpe was elected captain | Fittcher, os. Gate.’ Salles, p. | Rucker, p. for 113. But Thorpe doesn't depend upon foot- ball for fame. He is a first-class pitcher @@ the Carlisle nine, and the baseball scouts of the big leagues say that he is the peer of any professional, He can cover any speition Ca the eacks and in the field, bet in this o1 line of sport ashe ung in all others, He fe famous lacrorse, tennis, hockey ang handball player, and the best centre on ie basketball team that Carlisle ever all these lines of endeavor, it 1s as a track athlete that ‘Thorpe has become famous all over the world, ‘ ‘Track athletics came after baseball an@ football with him. His first een- ational success came in the dual meet ‘ast, year with Syracuse, where he won the running high jump, the running broad jump, the 1% yard and the 2 yard hurdle races, and the shotput, ant mes second in the hammer throw. This 12. Several times he has sprinted 100 yards in 10 seconds, His most startling Performance in any one event ca: the last meeting of the Olympic ath Defore leaving for Stockholin, where he ted with Richards, winner of the high jump in Sweden, at 6 ft. 5 inches, This, remember, is within a fraction of o follow the terrific str: of this all- around contest within a few days by tia the Decathlun (ten eveuis) is short of phenomenal. - ——-— duly wate safe at first on Doyle's fumble. Mathewson, p. i npires- tendance, 7,000, FORBES FIELD, PITTSBURGH, Pa., Ww what truth there was in the report from Boston that the Giants was willing to trade Tyle! x De isa you fn it right the coming series t infield hit |foreed Meyers at | Met wending Fletcher fouled to Wi |to ene nk Carthy. and the bases were full out Matty at first, Herzog scoring, vore was called out on strikes. Wilson Mani true and he anager Tyler pitchers right now, not that we have} not good pitchers but & sorry to say, Is going badly Just not probably -Rigler and Finneran, Ate —2,500, ROBI. “A the hen seen this noon and asked ‘ore and Groh r McGraw for Pitcher | ated that It would make the trade Kling would make the deal, grand pitcher and we need start at 4.16, Ruck and Iam one, Wille have noticed latel and should Pitti able to take at least one of wo games @ record-breaking to MeKechnie. second, Fletcher Wagner to singled to right, to third. Devore ner. Doyle fouled out NO RUNS, to Devore. fie Herson to Merkle. Matty Kage Kel Miller was Wilson was | Matty Wagner throw De- line drive, and Meyers out 2 | Danien’ Brooklyn Bresnahan. showed at ready to work, Umpires—Klem and Bush, Attendance Special to The Evening World.) SON PLELD, train wreck Supert * me hostilities They were and Miller we iat in third, didn't report Giants are like all other clubs {Poth belng Indisposed. slump and We are tn it and|that rain threatened, vere out for the fir The bugs in Pittsburgh are crazy over |Cards must win at Win 4; John RTH MACE, St. sr, opposed Wallle Smith although Mowrey Lee Mi at rat ff least arriving just in with six ani Robison Fi Despite the fact about 2,500 fans LOUIS, July delayed th Louls arrival to-day, time to the Cardinals hours lected as the by Sallee | late, again rr 1 Denn! The two of the WINDSOR SOR ENTRIES. Nuneentit farhany 100 i and pwned 4; Duck! 22 on. four games to Laas sixth place, crowd will be on hand Friday to see in one day's competition againat | ihe double-header. (track college t and Constituted a| wiryt Inning—Devore tripled to left; RACE TRACK, WINDSOR, Ont, July performance never equalled by any) centre, Doyle tripled over Mensor's|!t—The entries for to-morrow's races other athlete, head in right, Devore scoring. Gubson|are as follows puffed Becker's foul, Doyle scored FIRST RACK. Purse, 8500; Canadian bred HERE ts no doubt that if Thorpe | Winery ecrtinte ne to Carey Markie. foursesrolts ai ME ag 3 should spectaliae he could break | waiked, Murray fied to Wilson, Her-, linn” va Harrock, world’s records any one of & xzog filed to Carey. TWO RUNS. Yadramon,t 110, dozen events, He has cleared over 2; Mensor was out, Doyle to Merkle FOR; maaan thn feet in the running broad jump, has | McKechnie was out, Matty to Fletcher aster Jim, bi bam run the high hurdles in 163-6 seconds to Merkle, Carey fouled out to Mye: ia tashs 110; Oyuosure, And the low in %. He has puc the shot NO RUNS | THIRD RACK.--Purse, $1,000; Metronote over 43 feet and thrown the discus over ie vere beat out an Tnjuty Mae ¢ 116 threw McCarthy out at first, NO Hervant 2100? # inch of Mike Sweeney's famous world’s | RUNS tect Beam ico! record that stood for Mf.cen years.| Third Inning—Carey made a nice | MATH MOE C Waite Thorpe, if he dev his attention to|catch of Becker's short fly. Merkle ili oh yellcag, 10 Ogi high jumping for a few tnonths, will | ed to Mensor, Murray filed to Carey, | Mindlortte Me 08 Vreeland, 114) wily Vu undoubtedly beat Hortne's mark and set | NO RUNG. , emes: 98) ds’ Br SOE # record mark that will last for @ long | Gibson was out, Herzog to Morkle. | | BEVENTH Mac ume. Wretcher threw out Cacnite, Mensor | olde and uuward, 10 Becker, } TN | oa wuld be & creat performance for | Fourth Inning.-Hersog singled to | Ata Whew. ‘y-tdfought Olympics, pitied against | Ment Meyers beat out a hit to Mo- 108) ae ei the plok of the wor.d's athletes, The |CArthy. Fistcher attempted to sacrifice, af Pentathion takes in five events. But to |PUt Miller dropped McKechnie's throw THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1912.4 Copyrigtt, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). BEHR m7 WRIGHT WIN DOUBLES IN imported your tinished bsolute anteed. as hi 00) | Pitta! LONGWOOD 1 TOURNEY ther conditions aad with well fount atches in both events u plechave; selling; about In the doubles Karl H, Behr, @ sur- | two Andrew Summers, 141 vivor of the Titanic disaster, and Beals | (Gater), 5 to 1. Bite SABA T to. 184 eras won; Mist Haynes, 146 (Kermath), C. Wright, a former national champion, | 19) ato’, Pte 16 gaara Bacles put out FH, Harris of Boston and J.C. | iiian, 48 (McAfee), 12'to 1, 6 to and n of Concord, Ne M,, the old Dart-/9 to 4, third. Time, 4.90. The Shaugh- ) pair, in straight sets, Behr |raun, ‘Sight and High Hat also ran and played a brillant game and scored 17) finished ax named. © three sets. we Just before noon F.C. Inman of New York and A. 8. Dabney of Boston, who surery rae of fought a bitterly contested mateh ad mill at the Brij ai k, me h his man rae fourth round of singles and at 1,50 P.M y aes they were still playing with the maton, | ory de, ow York wom over doek Poy Exceptional Value Remnant Sale Piece-ends $30 and $0 materials cloths measure satisfaction Suits, and Trousers, a —_-.— + |e him a slight weight advantage - HEN Tom Kennedy steps into| toot invent,” Nill probably welsh W the ring to-morrow for] The most notable improvement in the 8 battle with the English] appearance of Kennedy ts the fact tha ic as ~—————heavyweight champion, Bombardier |he now possesses a much more athletls Well, fight fans will discover that|Pulld than formerly. When he frat ap- |Hope honor is a vastly Amproved manic stomach, and in various other ghter, In many departments of the|waya did not’ look 1 286 ewer ae) rome son idly) there | speedy T ALL-ROUND ATHLETE IN HISTORY OF SPORTS. SPRI 100 YARDS OS INT Fleavyweight Who h Who Meets Bom-; bardier Wells Looks Physic- ally Perfect Right Now. game Kennedy has recently displayed much greater promise than he time ago, and those who vn him train declare there is no rea- why he should not show the is in him when he faces Briton, he will be able to thwart Bombardier sufficiently to score a vic- Many close observers |are inclined to belleve Wells will prove the American's master, but there Is good | |reason to belleve that If Kennedy uses sufficient headwork (and this is a de- partment in which he 1s improving rap- W hat Systematic Training Means as a Developer Is Shown by Tom Kennedy Kelly, called to see him work. Perspiration Kk welghing about This wil would develop into a really first-cias heavyweight, Under the systeiat training of Sammy Kelly ali changed, evidence now, while his shoulders arms are visibly much better propu! tloned and muscled than ever before. After a turn around the did have best the ranged | the ting to ED when a party of newspaper men this has His stomach is much leas in back of tae hotel, during which he| | tackled the welgh punching bag. | = medicine clocked schedule ar. . Kennedy boxed | Jack Denning, | be @ ITED BY ROBERT EDGREN ‘JOHNSON MAY BOX JEANNETTE HERE BEFORE HE QUITS Hoboken Negro Will Turn Over Title to Eligible SWS despatches from the West | White Man if He Wins. N indicate that there is some pos. sibility of Jack Johnson's appear- nee In the ring In this clty ere his “re- tirement” Labor Day. It ts stated that the champton now declares ie Ix per fectly willing to meet Joe Jeanette in 9 bout here {@ only to “show up” the State Athletlc Commission, which he declares has discriminated against hit on account of his color. For a jong time Jeanette has campet on the trafl of the champion constant to Jo! trying get mn to agree to neeting, Dan MeKetrick, manager of ette was so earrled away by hit yhusiasm over such a meeting that has announced that Jeanctte will not n Bree Johnson," but will also tely hand over the ttle to an white man, MekKetrick {8 not jinelined to look upon Johnson's alleged willingness to arrange a bout w Jeanette in this city sertously. “It's the saine old st snorted Me. Ketrick to-day when informed of John- son's latest announcement, “He doesn nette and he knows reason he says he will fight here !s he has convinced himself the commission would not san n the bout. This would give him chance to holler that he had done n! best to give Jeanette a try at the tit and that {s ail he wants. Jobnson is clever negro, but he overlooks, inte tionally of ft club has made a bo bout In that clty guaranteeing John- zon the $30,000 he demands for an ap Pearance, Johnson also reallzes tha there is practically no chance of a New dare t Je Th the box q ‘as flowin; freely from his massive " re. frame, but he plugged along just as| York club offering him sich a larg Jthough meta PURged ong dust &*) amount for a mere ten round no de daya ie has fallen below the 2Wcpoun)| sen dout and he takes advantage ark, which has hitherto been his best | ‘Ms to keep up his stall and try ant ne WolEht ad her crete Ct enes | make folks think he really is willing < take on Jeanette, “Johnson is afraid of Jeanette a there is no doubt about It, not going to save him, be the Marquis of Queensberry champion must accept a challenge wh. a bona fide offer for a match is m: and under this rule Jeanette wil! short the heavyweight champtonship o the world. Then Mr. Johnson will hays to fight to get his title back.” Some time ago Commissioner O'Net! declared that in the Interest of th» game In this State he would make every to prevent Johnson appearing ring in New York. This hen was some possibility of his bein hed with a White Hope. but thin 4 ther m uny gym in _AMUSEMENTS, two sets all, tory. Without resard | Summar: ingies, Fourth| Kennedy ts to-day winding up his heat or each other's feelings j Round—G, P. Gurdner Jr, Boston, won| training at Abe Bennett's Atlantic Ho- jthe pair hammered away reoklessly. | mL. H. Martin, Boston, 6-8, 6=%/tel, Fair Haven, N. J. ls training! Both made a specialty of infighitng, | | o-2, |quarters are weil nigh fdeal, Located|and sume heavy stomach blows wore) aa | J.B. Jones, Provid from Ia on the edge of an extensive pine grove. [handed out by each. | Kennedy and his | |H, Martin, Boston, 6 1 6-3, completely surrounded by roads that| manager belleve tha Is slam-vang —— . w. Philadelphia, won| could not be improved upon for the|method of sparring ts what he needs | i Ziegield ; Moulin Rouge {i or m r K ew York, 6-0, 6-0, |daiiy jog a boxer must take, the camp|the most, figuring It will harden him | “AWINSOME WIDOW" Is so arranged that Kennedy has had/and give him stamiaa to withstand the Fi | jaxtern Doubles, Second Round—K,|every opportunity to get into the best | stinging wallops they know Wells pos- GLOBE Bats. a i New York, and Beals’ C,|of shape for the hard battle he will|sesses, Not a great deal of real boxing id Hoot ott, Audience tan. |poton ston, won from F, H, Harris, | have on his hands to-morrow, was tried by Kennedy, as he feels h» In son, Concord, TH. New Inman and ee of Boston | —>—— Gules . | |* WINDSOR RESULTS. 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