Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-03-28 | Page 48 | Jim Thorpe may be New York Regular

JIM THORPE Mflf BE IEW YOpGM McGraw Has Played Indian With First Squad in Practice Games MARLiN Tex March 2 Jim Thorpe Is a regular now Bescher and ''nodgrass are lus field mates. If Thorpe can con tlnoc to hit as be bas done In tbe prac tlce games he has at least an even chance of running In the National race as guar d ah of Ha,rry Hempstead s short fence Although Bu ns wnose p ace Thorpe wll take Is beginning to rest a 1 tt e weight on h s injured ankle it Is doult ful fie vl 1 b( ablo to play at the beglbnl g of the h g eunue campaign Met raw s mo e has convinced a great many skeptics that the manager has been s ncere In continuing to sing the praise i of Thorpe long after many other baseball critics bad despaired of tl e Indian e er bedoml g good enough for bh, league baseball If Thorpe does achieve success he and the uanager wi 1 be entitled to share the trlun ph on an even basis McG aw has continued to believe in Tl orpe through sad and singing weather and so has Jin Tl e Ind an of o d was no ed for h s per severance n fo lowing a trail And J m Thorpe has ne er quit the pursu t of tt e Job he began to chase from the day he Joined tie Ola ts. No that he seems to I ave It won he I tends to scalp 1 u such fasl ion that no one can deprl e him Of h a t ophv Manager McGraw save that he considers Tl orpe as good a fie der ss Heine Zlm mem an, McGraw also ventured the pre d ction that If Tl o -pe goes through the season as a regu ar 1 e 111 bat over S00.