The evening world. Newspaper, January 28, 1913, Page 14

-- oe 7 vy <li WORLD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2 THE ‘EVENING UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN N THESE AMATEUR DAYS i a ” Ss Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). | i HERE'S 3 DOLLA , iia GQuaaten,son, ™ Saugpen ! i FoR UCKING | THAT HES APROFESSIONAL oa American Athletic Authorities Apologize to Swe- den and All Other Countries for Allowing Indian to Compete at International Games at Stockholm. THORPH'S confession that he is @ professional and that he was a professional at the time he competed for the United States In the in- ternational amateur Olympic games at Stockholm last summer, ts one gt eo biggest sensations in the history of ath’ tics. The prompt apology of 1F ALL TROPHIES WERE RETURNED FROM “AMATEUR MAKING A "“PROFESH’ aT pint MT, NP INVEST GATE THE Foot: gue American Olympic Committee lessens the force of the blow and in a BALLERS, 700 sportsmaniike way evens wp the sit- Bors musST 6E 0 Ed uation. Tho A. A. U. here was to make an announcement to-day as to ite find- _CAREE UL NOW -A- DAVS ‘ His “AMATEUR” STANDING 1S THORP SIGNS WITH BEING INVESTIGATED ALSO — i r sea tginveteon jt the} PIRATES FOR $7,000, ODDS AND ENDS, came forward himself and confessed SAYS THIS STORY. NEWSY PARAGRAPHS MU makes this fam Gnome Wout deve te wan AND ALL KINDS OF ¥. long for @ job wow that he's been! Lan t ibaa tet i ie Thorpe will be stripped of all the] proven @ professional, for word somes HE Pastime A. C. will hold its iM, slory he won on the amateur fleld—| to-day trom Pittsburg thet the Pirates “annual set of {tm altes, Sc. ts aris ave clready signed the famous (adian to play Gret base, 3t ts believed that and that includes more honor than ever foll to the lot of any athlete in the world. He not only is a wonder- ful football and baseball player, but he can do all sorts of record-breaking stunts in every other branch of sport. Thorpe won both the Decathlon ead the Pentathlon events iu the meet at Stockholm and this earned for him Praise from every quarter of the globe. The King of Sweden upon ten Gering Thorpe the bronze bust for winning the Pentathlon, sald: “You,*sir, are the greatest athlete in the wor! Thorpe aleo wae presented a handsome Viking ship, the prize tendered Twenty-Second games in. the : Regiment Armory to-night. The star of the meet will undoubtedly prove to be Hannes Koleamainen, the Minnish ath: | lete, who, next to Thorp, eatest distinction at tl mes last summer. Hann: i the three-mile run, ar sharps predict he'll break the “indoor | record, as he has now reached top-notch form, ‘This ts a handicap race, the men being given as much as 175 yards, Harry Smith and Lewis Scott will be on scratch with Kolehmainen. Judging by the list of entries, all the | otlier events will be Interesting, All Ballroom Dances Geares> SOME OTHER WELL-KNOWN teed in 5 Private Les and 4 Close “AMATEURS” wiee Get Busy Thorpe’s Eaadecsion DRISCOLL-MORAN TITLE BOUT RESULTED IN DRAW. Bend f fre Rahat TE REMEY sciooL ‘for DANCING HIRSCH NO MATCH &y the Caar of Russia for winning ihe| fessionals, let alone having played | Department of the Interior, — , Decathion. with or as one of them. pdbget United States Indian Survice, LONDON, Jan. %.—The much adver+ YY We, si maiming meee a ectve, citetee wate Kim i or, 64th Se Not only will these prises bs taken| ‘The widest possible publicity was | Carlisle, Pa, Jan, 26, 1912 tised “grudge” Nght vetween Jein Dris-| the junior tram are ciamplonship of Ue “Ama. eway from the Fox and Gac Indian, but} fiven | the team selected by the James K. Sullivan, New York, N.Y: coll, the English featherweight cham-| tir “Fencers, Laame of America, at Ue Nee he'll have to return all the any imerican Olympic Committee, and tet y Cha pion, and Owen Moran at the National | York, Henears’ Glu eo “ (iiaeb—tneluding the Nations! A. A {t seems etrange that men havi Dear Sir—When tie interview with Mr. Clanoy stating that I had played pA garam fy alte? tirigen DONOVAN’S Sporting Club proved one of t! A 5 ni gaz a hy knowledge of Mr. Thorpe's profe baseball on the Winston-Salem team was sbown me I told Mr. Warner that grease os Tort A itll" ed ip; Which he won fast fa The Fencers’ Club Tiniahed second — — ol fought where a title was at stal wlonal ‘conduct 4d not at rs > It was not true, and in fect I did not play on that team. But so much has | | ¢ve cy te new also charged agaloat Thorpe | Yor the honor of ‘thet Ered eects been said in the papers since then that 1 went to the echoul authorities this | |The men tolled twenty long rounds, and | retorig, and, seven defeats, ile ts on Ste School for il he signed with the! forward and place In the Mende wr |Local Boxer Just Prepared |] morning and told them juat what the at the end of the affair the only thing teiahact te tata ividual matches George | ¢ clase lessons, $1: private lesson, ok of the National \+:gue to! the American committee gach in- 1 played baseball at Rooky Mount and at I N, Cy tn the sum- [| Keferee Eugene Corrt could do was to * play first base for them this season. Barney Dreyfuss, President of the team, Qpen being asked whether this report Wes true, refused to make any state- Ti vetele “yet, ri ‘four tori ach nile Biwoy, Goth | St. cf Kirataa rau {be ob gtetaat on team bad . ‘vorerse, formation as they had. No euch information was given, Nor was @ suggestion even made to Thorpe being other than the call it @ draw Driscoll wetghed 126 pounds at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, as the articles de- mer of 19 and 1910 under my own name. On the same teams I played with were several college men from the North who were earning money by ball- playing during their vacations and who for Kilbane Go in Final Home Bout. ‘key game in the Bt. Nicholas Rink ty a ait we nd time this ‘tect faa Binard ar . pent. HORPE in his confession declar that he didn’t know {t was wrong 9 to play professional ball and com- fm amateur athletics at the same Thorpe tell just what college men ball with him, for the sooner that the amateur ranks are free of much ath- Totes the better tt will be for the mame. ‘The diequal @light difference in the standing of tions at the Olympic meet. How- it t big enough to cause Amei the credit of winning rat | fen’ lete . 8 fs ‘horpe returns his Olympic Viking ship will be turned ‘Weirlander of © jen, who the decathion, and y, who finished pentathion, will receive the rR, F “fi; iz i Princeton will also oe, as he fin- to eal great Carlisle ath- round championships at last September. On that oc- redakin plied up 7,676 Ren ‘a record, intimation that Thorpe 5 5 it last Thursday. declared that Thorpe played under agement in the Carolina League years ago. The following day he the story, saying he was mie denial was hardly cold when play- end umpires from other parts of country came forward aid that lemew all the time that the Jim who played in the Soutnors and the athlete who the supreme honors abroad Yast were one and the same. Be- Amateur Athletic Union could announcement as to what they ered in thelr investigation into @ case Glen Warner, the Car- coach, came here and handed to mes BE, Sullivan, Secretary-Treasurer the A. A. U., Thorpe's confession, ggess i Hi ft ot FTBR considering the matter for ov A. U, offte gave out the following statement! Boe Team Selection Committee of fe American Olympic Committee selected ory ‘Thorpe as one of the members e American Olymple team, end ‘aa fo without the least @aspicion as to there having ever ween any ect of professionaliam on ‘Thorpe's part. Bor the past several yoars Thorpe so bens @ memher of the Carilsie “ounted, of the athletic Betivities of the ‘natitution, During period of Mr. Thorpe’s memve: it Carlisio he competed on ite ball, baseball and treck and feild and represented it in inter- @@legiate and other contests, all of were oper only te amateurs, Melther Curlisic nor any of the tutione with which it eompetes other than amateur team ‘® standing a6 &n amateur Bever been questioned, nor was Pretest aver made against him @ny statement ever made as to even having practised with pro- amateur which he was supposed to bea Thi» country ts of such mendous territorial athletes numerous, 0 sometimes ex- tremely diMcult to ascertain the his- tory of ap athlete's past. In the selection of the American team the committee endeavored to use every osslble precaution, and where there was the slightest doubt as to « man's amateur standing, his entry was not considered, Thorpe's act of professionalism was In @ aport over whioh the Am: teur Athletic Union has no direct control; it w mes which were not reported important papere of the coun- That he played under his own name would give no direct notice to any one concerned, as there are many of his name. Thi ason why he himseif did not give notice of hie 1s explained by him on the ground of ignorance. In some Justification of this position, it should be noted that Mr. Thorpe Is an Indian of liméted experience and education In the ways of other than hia own people. The American Otymple Committee and the Amateur Athletic Union fee! that while Mr. Thorpe ts deservi of the severest condemnation for cor cealing the fact t had profes- stonalized himself that those who k of his profes- sional acts are deserving of still Breater censure for their silence, The American Olymple Commitee and the Amat Athletic Union tender to the Swedish Olympale Com- multtoe and througi the International Olymple Committee to the nations of the world, thelr apology for having entered Mr. Thorpe and having per- mitted him to compe! at the Olympic Gamer of 1912, The Amateur Athletic Union regrets that it permitted Mr. Thorpe to com- pete in amateur contests during the past several years, and will do every- thing in ita power to secure the re- turn of prizes and the readjustment of points won by him, and will inme- diately eliminate «ls records from the books, GUSTAVUS T. KIRBY, President Amateur Athletic Union and Vice-President of American Olympic Committee. JAMES E. SULLIVAN, Chairman National Registration Committee, Secretary Amateur Ath> letic Union and Secretary Amert- Chairman Legisiation Committee A. AU, and Vice-President Amer- Jan, 27, 1913 (Signed) W trom Attorney-General Carmody, will postpone ite hearing of the Em: ‘a inquiry, the Boxing Com- ted the Mtate’s attorney boys, promoters of the Kinpire Clud, as to thetr management of the crowd want- see his way clear to assist the nin ite investigation teohnics shouldn't be allowed to simmer down W ashes without the parties con- can Olympic Committee. fean Olympic Committes ORD reaches me that the Boxing pire A. C., acheduled for to-morrow, to formulate @ Hone that ing to see the Cross-Rivers bout, Let mpire Club, for @ case that be- cerned and the sporting public receiv- eatisfaction BARTOW 8. WEEKS, Dated New York Cit: Comm! om, not having heard for a week, At the culmination of could legally be asked the MoMahon us hope that the Attorney-General will nowith wuch @ play of pyro- ing some sort of o] the tlite of Gpecial Delivery Hirsch of Chicago, at from start to finish, ing the only one that was in his favor. and he was in his corner ahowering him with words of advice, feaze Dundee, who kept after his oppo- nent all the way and at times scored so often that When local fight fane see Johuny Dundee, the clever little side boxer, {n action again dt may be that he'll have atherweight champion at- tached to he name, fur hile bout against the Ojympic A. ©. was hin last unul after his championship contest with Johnny Kilbane at Los Angeles on April 15. Dundee and his manager, Beotty Monteith, plan to leave for the coast at once #o all their friends were on hand to see the “getaway” battle, Hirsch was easy for the Italian lad the fifth round Abe Attell is now manager of Hirsch but this didn’t the Windy City lad was nearly all in when the bell clanged, 1 444 not play for the money there wi it until to-day. wanted to get on the until new w! playing, and things, their own names. thing and o down beca very sorry, 1m enough money to live on, but because I liked to play ball. I was playing, and for that reason I never told any one In the fall of 1911 1 applied for readmission to this school and came back to continue my studies and take part in the echool aports, and of course I ympic team and take the trip to Stockholm. Mr. Warner send in my application for registering in the A. A. 1d the questions and signed it, and I received my card allowing me to compete in the winter meete and other track sports. it a big nilstake I made by keeping it a secret about my ball- m sorry I did eo. I hope I will be partly excused by that 1 was simply en Indian echootboy and did not know all In fact, I did not know that I was doing wrong, because I was dolig what 1 knew several other college men had done, except that they did not use I have always liked sport and only played or ran races for the fun of the to eafn money.. I have received offers amounting to thou- sands of dollars since my victories last summer, but 1 have turned them all I did not care to make money fromm my athletic skill, Tr. Sullivan, to have it all spoiled in this Amateur Athletic Union and the people will not be too hard in judging me, 1 was not very wise to the ways of the world and did not realize that this was wrong and it would make me a@ professional in track sports, although I learned from the other players that !t would be better for me not to let any one know tha; t the school about I had U. after I 1 never reallzed the fact out such Tam y, and I hope the JAMES THORPE. A. A. U. Might Change Decisions In Some Famous Contests on Same Evidence Used Against Thorpe. BY BOZEMAN BULGER. F gainer to a few kings and emperors. A amateurs put In to-day looking up thelr own amateur standing, with his confession to the A. A. formers, who he “what amateur OR playing summer baseball down in some little Southern League the A. aught Jim’ Thorpe, the Indian athlete, although not until the noted redma: ust return those prizes, medal red handed and with the onfessed, Now the famous and honors he won at the Olympic ry time did many of our best known Thorpe along Yreatens to lft the curtain on other per- ya are in the same boat with tiimeelf, Just how much money it takes to ma! Now the question is a man a pro- feartonal is not at hand, but you can go and bet your sox that the Rocky Mount team on which Thorpe played didn't come within striking distance of the iimit in fixing up Thorpe. As we understand it, amateurs around these parts are allowed good meals and travelling expenses, a thing which Jim never got in the Eastern South Carolina League. “How you want you algs?” is all ever got for breakfast, and those individual bowls, like canary bird bath tubs, in which they served the dinner: were never intended to rob a man of his amateur standing, GOLIATH GETS DECISION CAUSE DAVID WAS A “PRO.” Jim Thorpe is a professional, but ‘he ta the only man ever accused of it In that league. Arthur Devitn, the ex-Giant, aya he had been away from there for two yeare before people ever regaried him as @ professional Frank Smith says the papers sometimes call him an amateur now. ‘This thing of digeing up the dope on prises sounds Mke @ fellow running tor oMfce, Incidentally it 1s underwtood that the Amateur Athletic Unton has Just dug up the dope on David when ne threw that stone, hammer, discus, shot, or whatever it was, and having found him to be # professional have decided |that Goltath gete the decision. They hav recon’ accredited to Willi cause it was discovered ¢ be- m Tell, jenents be cngveven the same of marked ow the blue ribbon RIN and hie eon had been mm the apple peddling business for two years before the shot was fired. An tnepection of the A. A. U. Mes shows an absolute blank whervn , George Washington for throwing a dol- lar across the Potomac Riv here is (Right vird of a place for pulling old line to the effect that dollar went a long way in thoxe but we are not going to do It.) name was marked off be- use he had @ dollar to throw. We submit against G. Washington, There ts abun- dant evidence on hand to show that any man who throws money away Is a Simon pure amateur—more Simon than pure. IF SWAT MILLIGAN 18 DECLARED A “PRO.” Cotnsidental with the flurry over th ni this morning” tn an afternoon paper, Neen Pree ———————— eae <= e other than Swat Milligan, less Hitter of the Poison Coke, ace companied by his secret se) vice Because 6wat wrote article: covering ls = held th: (FIGHT RESULTS ) | bose tong | |. SRY ORLEANS, Ja i Anyway, the gent who bobbed up was |b the manded, while Moran was one pound and a half under weight, -———— toyured ‘thumb, went twenty rot trithToumy Connors of Scranton betere the ism City Athletic Club, 28. Young Jack 0" URIDGHPORT, Ja of Pog and AV iKetchell” of Bris founda tos dra’ ee the. south Bed The spectators were disappointed, as the i during of the fight Went ten at Young a nthe semi. wank Griffis of "Bridgeport a ‘A severe beating, | 28. —At the oral Ath Now York. was, aa wer Ye ji dee wer Batiti ke of toa ‘rounds. and ‘Eddie sCoulon of Rested Youtig Rover of New York'tn eight rounds iS PMEHs, 3 ton of Chicago 28, Jack jucing punis ano AMUSEMENTS. the world's series for Evening World last fall he has been accused o professionalism, and will have to sly back all the prizes and encomiums—he hates to turn loose those encomiums— that he won during hin twenty years’ service in the Willow Swamp League. If guilty, Swat is perfectly willing to begin the process of restitution. If he does this, however, the A, A, U, will have to ongage an army of expert ac- countants. During his long career Swat Milligan piled up @ mase of more than 18,985,482 runs, the rule being in vogue, that time, that a runner could keep scoring, &c. All of these runs must be returned and distributed among the Net- tle Rashes, the Garfield Grays, Catfish Shoals, Clogtown Corners, Little Pota- toes Hard to Peel and the Dice In- apectors, This work alone will require months, and then will come the re- awarding of the pennants, It may turn out that the Polson Oaks never have won @ pennant at all and that every flag presented to them will have to be accounted for, admite having done the writ- ing for Evening World, but tt was not so much for the money he ‘xot couraging future generations ‘a diamond studded home run bat now held by the A. A. U. and marked “Exhibit A." ‘O,, ran & remarkable quarter ‘wlai’ spin over the board floor eecoud Regiment Armory. After two trials, fm which he ran the distance in 54 sec: onde, he’ travelled his nest quarter tn the fast time’ of 49 48 seconds, Bhep showed no from the fall be received at the Fonthamn Gomes on Baturdey night and ie in grand shape AZ sor DON HOE oun All Deslers Aree Theres a Difference. Goes avae Everywhere t.), Sat. at 12 A, SNOW WHITE “thysrastite A WEBER & FIELDS"}),4¢7 Kid Lewis of Wateroury gave I out wach” ron ment to Jimmy of K at the Phoeaix at Jolene “stuted (te vcuntest in the seventh ‘The men weighed’ in at 134 pounds, Vark. Es. 818 THE MAN WITH “THREE WIVES CASING & seth. Gr 818, & Sat, Mat TRENTINI i in THE FIREFLY y. Mat, To-m' ¢ role, LITTLE WOMEN: “ig i isin COMEDY 4 rm aber san LYRIC @..\ Matineew SAM BERNARD. | in FANNY’S FIRST PLAY oP HINGELELD, 0... Jan. Coakley | Wayne. substitited i ach Dillan of Todlasapolla’ wlio ‘oalt’ net digh use of an Bight will bring together for ¢ ertiue rere. without. the bp Canadian eas who even, Meas Dainiogs. 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