The evening world. Newspaper, February 3, 1913, Page 12

Wipe ee tergny a ‘There Are Other “Olympic Cham- plons” Who Have No More Right Than Thorpe to Be Called “Amateurs.” Ceortt S: Newtek Wot) H, WHLL—Jim ‘Thorpe te oti the Oo World's greatest athlete, even if his records are to be “erased rem the record books.” Perhaps Thorpe won't run or jump @e go in for any more record breaking emploits on the track, now that he has his attention to baseball, but hag done won't be forgotten. part, I don't see why Thorpe’e should be “erased” at ail. ere genuine performances, far of any other athlete, Ma Eel inant rf i wi “eummer basdball” down in the hills eomewhere? ‘Thorpe's performances should be kept @n record, with a footnote explaining thet while they are the greatest ath- letle feats ever performed by any American, or any MAN, Thorpe was amateur athlete at the time. HISE ate the fellows who deserve censure and diagrace—the men who know better, Gut who, in @pite of their knowledge, ptay Cor monoy @ecretly and then sneak back and con- pote as amateurs. ‘They are plain, ordinary erooks. ‘Thorpe, too, may not have had a very high amateur ideal. Why should he have, knowing, as he must have known, thet ether men who competed in the Olympic Games were professionals mas- querading as amateurs? He knew, as every one connected with amatetr ath- letios mows, that many who have gone te the Olympic Games have practically made ao living as “amateurs,” paid by @ames promoters to compete in “ama- tear” events, taking the money slyly 09 deldly, according to thelr nature—but wetting it. ‘There are other “Olympic champions” whe have no more right than Thorpe to be called “emateurs.” ‘We will have amateur athletes when the promoters, the officials, those who Tum games, are strictly amateur them- eelves. Not before. ‘LING NL@ON has sent in a Photo of himself, with a very bretty young lady, explaining that the latter te now Mrs, Nelson, Bat isa marvel. Can't help wondering hew he ever did it, with hie battle- scarred visage and his somewhat grim exterior. Bat explains in his letter that he (sqjust about to start on the road @gain for three more fights, scheduled for the month of February, and that| > afterward he intends to “take fest as they come, champions pre Correa.” 014 Duradie Dane! ELSON Included a lecture on the “knocks” delivered to the sport of boxing. “Why,” saye he, “everyone who knows | iything knows that the cleanest living boys in any town are the boxers. They have to live model lives, If they don't, but run around like ordinary boys, they haven't & chance in the world to go ypward in thelr profession.” ©, M. Bat. O Palzer and O'Rourke are off for that dear Par-ee! Palser is to fight Jack Johnson there in June, if Johnaon can avoid cer. tain engagements that may keep him in the State of Lillinols for an indefinite ume. ‘The French have bought some awful Jemons since they took up boxing, Nu- merous American pugs who were mere @etond raters in thie country nave gone to Paris, pulled down big purses there, and been boomed and hurrahed by the oor Frenchmen as “champions,” There might be some sense in match- fing McCarty with Johnson in Pails, But where does Palser ft as a “chain- plonship Aspirant” since McCarty made | him look like a fumbling novice out in| Lae Angeles, and wound his career up with a thump on ihe chin, ‘As for Johnson, he 18 no longer recog. nized as champion. Public opinion has UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, Rigseuery ay suts Goat. yy a, too posters welgie title at the, ame different ig that I 1g never able ie ae Har pee y on han at to find out exactly where I belonged, | wil Tt ‘codon. Indian Exphined Why He}¥ou ace 1 would piten one day nd then I woul! Sil in et first base and ia Signed With Giants When|were‘piccnme: Tinie *tittse, Sact't A. would preter first base to any other the Pot He Said: “I'd Rather ‘Be on] position. But that’s entirely up to Mr. K ‘enn BROWN, who Cal, on Washington's Birthday noon, will leave for Los Angeles, ai companied by his manager, Dan Mor- an, and his brother Adam. Brown, was to have left to-day, but as Morgan had to remain here and arrange fights] more, for his other two fighters, Jack Britton and Jim Savage, he telegraphed to Mc- Carey that he would not start until Tuesday. Jim Coffroth has wired Mor- Thorpe Makes Great Hit Soe es With Chief McGraw on His seaeey itera First st Day as Big Leaguer\=* ca BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK JIM THORPE AS A GIANT Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). tie Knockout Brown Will Start — For Los Angeles T. o- Morrow agg Kure Deieoll of |B eae If He Whips Joe Rivers He'll ie ae ited fae ‘condioon and" sane: he snpesee ait rates es meng "et —_>—_ Be Matched ‘With Ad Wol- gast for March 17. BY JOHN POLLOCK. change wallops with Jo a twe' y-round bout at V Jock Bi McGraw. He'll find out where I be- Pay Fe met "ae “Qurene berry Bench With a Good Team|'*"S, you care for pltehingr* 1 al Kilbane, the Ge foathecralatt orn, ved in town for his ten round bout with Than on the Field With a|“wan nowledge of the game, Bad One.” but in that position 1 don't get play more than one day is oer positions I might be y BY BOZEMAN BULGER. _|fiing in favor of pitching, though,” 0 iM THORPE, the great Indian ath-jcontinued, “is that I wouldn't be ex- lete who has become Giant, has|Dected to be @ great hitter. In oth one characteristic that will be a|poaltions 1 @ have to hit the ba Strong point in his favor even before his UP to bis form or lose my job.’ Dhysieal dexterity or knowledge of the || Rafe y Pretty good pitcher?” 1 and oR halt of my games with a tall- PPA aM team,” was the answer, “and I see tha has of looking out the corner of his exe | ;2at's considered pretty good in the big Pretty good control of It too, 1 dent | know whether I had what you writers ites one couldn't <p | call @ ‘jump’ on my fast ball or not. I em, "wr mare, es Bere will be no juciating | Question about me being @ pitcher. wire Han St 8a rie aiare, Heed, to, play” baseball” ‘yf gy that is one of have chearve Mathomen deine when the ceasons I joined that league in apparently he paying North Carolina, You know, we haven't According to MoGraw, the ball player) had maseball at Carlisle for two or three who studies out details is nearly always) years, If we hed baseball at the con ry successful. I might never have become a profe: ‘That Thorpe is an observant fellow | monal.' was shown when 1 asked bim why he| Thorpe explained that he had a small preferred to join Giants. He gianced; income from his property in Oklahoma, out of the corner of his eye at @ large) but that it was not suMctent for a good framed picture of the New York team bee & other words, he is going into which included all the substitutes last) Paseball purely for the money there 1s ing. on a have gone to St. Louis and,| THORPE NOT A FULL-BLOODED INDIAN, Contrary to the general impression, “But tt occurred to me that I had never Thorpe is not @ full-blooded Fox and rtling newspaper stories| Sec Indian. His parents are both half- about what the St. Louis teem had done, | breeds, His father in @ well to do That is what decided me in favor of | f4rmer in what was formerly the Indian Territory. Jim was born near @ little the Giants. If the Bt. Louls club was! diac caliod Prague, He ls @ ward of willing to put an untried man Uke me| fhe oied @tates Government and on the regualr team they would likely | owns @ tract of land which ts @ pari put other untried men on it and It! or the grant to the Indians. wouldn't be much of @ team, I think I] Though there is a general tmpression would rather sit on the bench with a/ that MoGraw signed Thorpe purely for good team than to be on the field with sake of having a worldwide famous & bad one, After seeing what good! attraction for the Giants, the New Yor Players do I might be able to do it| manager is ay enthusiastic over his myself, jorpe ts the Ideal build Ht THORPE PREFER® TO PLAY | -,,s007P%,,'9, the ideal bulld for « bait FIRST BASE, shouldered, clean-limbed and weighs 176 ‘IT have never heard of @ ball player! pounds, Hie mind ts quick and hie who sat on the bench with the Giants| record ts ample evidence of his game- turning out badly," he added. “A lot . 1 like the way he has of atudy- @f good coaching, 1 figure, lo worth Of course, I realize that | more to # young player than @ iitle mane t Aad bad playing.” 04 player. He will go South with With a great crowd of reporters and’ A two weeks and work out with the Photographers around him it could bo fret squad of recruits.” seen that the Indian athlete was de-| When the business of signing and cidedly uncomfortable, He laughed | posing for the photog: Politely at the jokes—he has a keen| over, end Thorpe and Glenn Warner sense of humor—but would never volua-| Were about ready to start on their re- teer a comment of his own. It was ait| turn to Carlisle, MoGraw was feeling strange to him and he wanted to be! in fine sure of his footing before offering #0 down Japinions of his own, He posed for | Was suggested that we drink @ toast to |plctures for an hour without a murmur | the new player. of complain, McGraw explained to| Thorpe watched the jolly gathering with Interest. up hia mind to go through, dethroned him, and for all time. Yet |. @ohnson, as far as he has gone back, | an probably beat Palser with ease.’ ‘There's just @ possibility, of course, that © Whe negro, seeing himself to be a dead im any case, might accept a few ether and He down gently in the middie ‘of the ring. In that event Palser would chance, from some gunydling clique or | When it was all o Thorpe naively lar everyday thing in the big league, ed that It was the “longest con-, We don't do thia often.” Thorpe caught he had ever pen in his hand and signed the notice T am paper for nearly two hours. For every e would oblige. play such bad ball down in \veorge North Caroll he remarked after “ visited ome one had cracked @ joke about that bastam who reneudly visited this coatiy, tre, ‘Bisest Sporting Club, jMeague, “J bad to play in so many ff rite ome Te Airc 1 HIGHLANDERS PLAN TO GIVE THREE MEN FOR LORD OF THE WHITE SOX. A tip has just been sent from Chi- cago that negotiations are now un- der way between the Highlanders and the White Sox for one of the pase trades r pulled off. the famous third . now in bad with the © cago management he 1s booked for a berth on another club, and information at @ planning to give Outfielder Hartsell, Jack Martin, the young a Fin! sorered from uy instead of hun, a result lant season was his worst since he bas been in fast company, Sav The TADAN cay + dees None” wimouT oune Seen ? the tournament is fini walt ecpeeek Abe" AROUND WEIGHT “Throw iING SLAM AGAINST “THe Ba. 3 HES LEAGUE WILL BE ORGANIZED eit wie oe ae a wien m Winane passed Uhr roa ‘Syca- Test’ ri ae of eke win Ht Boer sw fight ae 13 ce whe ‘iam: Bakar Tarr now pate st fleht pro. Rati fugher ie" manhe the trip to Saulva, “the en -muddleweight chasmion; Johaay d «|Minor Association to Com- prise Cities of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, a es ly Summers, the welterweight’ champion, Hl, "the Baglish ligh stint wh), frag 10 yall tn ste sommiry 8 AV wall , who made a poor tm Formins. | It is expected that the organization of romi| the new Interstate League, comprising A Snappy Seasoning eight cities of New York, New Jersey It ls necessary to the full #nd Pennsylvania, will be completed to- enjoyment of a dinner. day at @ meeting to be held at the Hotel Cadillac, Forty-third street and B: a, tera for faite 8 Best bout at Winnipegs Conaa "Fe = As Oapont aS precescalky. a in MeGoory Crom ng Be pore at the opening i ight on account of bud ‘i "0 ie ett tof ob Ne *Sohneon, ea ig sre izers to award franoh ue, | adopt a constitution arrange other deta! The following cit! at the meeting: Mayor John K. Sague; i elect officers, by-laws and SAUCE {ll be represented Poughkeepsie by ex- Middletown by M. Cox and Jack Lawler, er of the Utica New York ; Newburgh by Tod n_by Jack Grim, the (or ted rounds, Brows will fight at this club when Laach's elbow Certainty that boy Teds ‘Teddy debut in ie tn State League te: {a thls colume lat | Disreroth; Kin, EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN ARMY OF BOWLERS IN HEAD PIN TOURNEY Evening World’s Ninth Annual Competiton Begins To- Night at Thum’s. The ninth ennual Evening headpin bowli tournament 8 o'clock to- it at Joe Thum's lephaat Alleys. More LJ Xe i! dred teams have gtread: i that #bout sine hundred teame wil) bere night in order to give the con! every opportunity to win one of the berg 4 Giver watch fobs of'ered, Bowling Association and the Bowling Clubs—will be on hand for the Opening. 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