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Show THORPE 'CONFESSES KID IS STRIPPED OF ALL E10U0RS i t JAMEg THOKPE. had don, except that they did not un their own D.mM. I have alwaya liked aport and oalv played or run met fur tha fun of I lie thing; and never to mrn money. I have received offera amounting to - thoueenda of dollar elnre my victoria vic-toria laat eummer. but I have turned them all down liecauae I did not car In make money from tnv athletic kill. I am very aorry. Mr. Sullivan. Io hava It all npollad In ttil way and hope th unuilfiir atlilottc union and tha peopla will not hm too hard in j wit in r Youra tmlV. JAMES THORPK. Ona la ruy. n m mtfter of tha Rock y Mount m of the ouah league afore aaid mnMonM, waa tha unconaHoue an-thor an-thor of Thorpe'e amateur downfall. A rrportar tMrv1wtne; thla man Denoy aaw a picture of the Tlorky Mount Hub and reiouiad Thorpe In the group. Clancy trle1 to Iwck out of tha atiua-tlon, atiua-tlon, out tha tnith waa out and on top of the atory aa puhllahml came hnn-drMa hnn-drMa of letter to the Amateur Athletic union front peranna who aurtdenly re-memhered re-memhered liavina known Thor well aa a ball player. Waa No Beer at. In fact It develops that down aouth. I whre Thorpe pltive1f mnA imnng hie i i ii iii i H International Kawa fterrlre KBW TOES, Jan. 28. JLm Tnorpa, tha groatoat all around athloto that thii or any other country has vr known Jim Thorpe, the wonderful In-Idlao In-Idlao football, baaeball, baakotbaU and jlaeroaae plajror, broad and hifh Irtunper, hardier and aprtntar laureled by a king and acclaimed by mlillona baa finally admitted hla fine against the lawg of amateurtam. One email Indler-ratlon of hla athletic youth naa rome forward at thla late day after ha dad won all the a lor lea that could be Mined In hla rhoeen field end he find a htmeelf branded aa a "orufee-alona!" "orufee-alona!" the tnoet henloua offense that niay be committed among emateura. It iMnii a little thing enough that thla great Carllal alar did. Ip the eummer of 1o and 1910 ha ptayad baaeball for money with the Rivcky Mountain team of the Eaatern Carolina aeaoctatlon aa wet! aa (be Karat tevllle team of the aame leejni -a 'league that alanda for all the pru-faaalonaJ pru-faaalonaJ ball player maana whan he re-fera re-fera aeorn fully to the "buahee." Today tlua leaauat probablr paver very hale and hearty In Ita moat proeparoue daya.' ! defunct, but It Hvad long enough to furnleh a meana for the destruction of lite ttareer aa an amateur of the great eat athlete of ull tlmea. AM the materlaJ honore that Thorp gained In the Olympic, gamee of 1l a t he trochlea and w ha t not have been atrtpped from the Indian holder and thev will be returned to the do no re. None of hla marvelous recorda will aland. They will be wiped out completely aa If they never existed, although It la nit her doubtful If tlila aunimary method will re move them front the memory of the people peo-ple who follow athlattc event. Tha deetructloH of three reivirda wMl work g revolution In the athletic world. Martin Bhertden will regain hia old all-around all-around American record; Hweden will move up In athletln at ending: other couiitiiee will llkewiee profit, all be-rail be-rail one pure-bioMled American played a little baaeball a few years ago. Thorpe 'a Confeaeioa. Thorpe eare he did not play for tha actual money he gained. Ilia letter of con fees Ion fnDowi: T played baaehall at Ttockv Mount and at Kayetierllle, S. C.. In the eumraer of laoe and lt under my own name. On tha aama teaina I played witti aeveral college men from the north Who were earning money by plavtng hall during their vara t lone and who Wera regarded an ema Intra a t home. I d Id not plav for the monev there waa In it, hocjuiee my pmterty bring me In enough money to live oil, hut because 1 liked to pUy Iwtl. I waa not very wlee 111 the aaya of the world and did not realise real-ise thla waa wrong, and U would make uie a profeaalonal In track . rporte, although I learned from the other play era that tt would be better for me not to lei anv one know that 1 waa playing, and for that reaaou never told anyone at the ailiooi about It until i.Kley In the fall of 111 f applied for re-admtnalon re-admtnalon to thla eehool and cam back to eonllmie my atudlee and taka part In the achool aporta. and of count I wanted to get on the oiyniplo team and take the trip to 8 took holm. I had Mr. Warner aend in my application applica-tion for registering In the A. A. IT., after f had answered the queatlona aud slimed t, and I reeH ed my card allowing me to compete In the winter win-ter meet and other track aporta. I never realised until now what 0 big mtateke I made by keening It a "ret about my ball playing and f am aorry t did aex I hope I will He partly excused by rhe fact that I waa simply bji Indian achool bov and did not know all about eu-h thlnga In fact. I did not know that I waa do-, do-, lug wrong, beeaue I waa doing what I anew aeveral other col lea -men friend a end aaeociatea there waa no eecret of the fact tluu ha played be ee bail for monevdld not know that there was any .particular barm in It. thirlng the Olyntplc gameg southern papeia prtnied atorlea and picture of the great Indian, lauding hla proaees and constantly referring re-ferring to hla baaeball oonnectiona In the Carolinaa, and no hint of thla reached the eare of th amateur eullHirltles. AB Investigation wa proposed, but before be-fore It could b held Thorpe himself came forward with hla confession. No audi turmoil haa been create! In the athletic world elnre th tlm Arthur Duffy, the rreat sprinter, was officially expunged from th records. A atatenient from tli Amateur Athletic Ath-letic Union of th 1,'niled B tales states that It never had the least suspicion of the fact Hint there had been an act of altered professionalism un Thorp a part. "Th widest possible publicity waa given of the team ejected by the American Ameri-can Olympic commit lee and It see mi strange that men having: knowledge t Thorpe professional conduct did nt at such time, for the honor of their country, coin forward and plac In the handa of the American oommll tee am-h information ae they had." aaye the etate ment. The committee, too. add a word of eympathy for th Indian. "It should be noted," la as re. "that Mr. Thorn la, an Indian of limited education edu-cation In th aaye of other than Me peopla" Th report condemns Thorpe for concealing; con-cealing; the fact that he had prof ess Ion -sliced himself, but adds that th committee commit-tee feela that those who knew of hla professional pro-fessional tun are deeervtng of atlll greater cnaur for their ailenc. Apology to Bwedon. The American Olympic conuuitt. consisting con-sisting of Gutae T- Klrby. Jama E. Hulllvan and Harlow ft. Weka, lenders an apology to the 8wdtah Olyntptc com ml t te, and through th International Olympic commlttc to the nations of the world for having entered Thorpe and lievltig permtttnd him to compete at the Olympic games of If 12. It announce tliat It will do everything in ita power to secure th return of the prlsea and the reailjustment of iMdula woti by him. At th close of the footlall season of I9i all eastern experts picked Thorp as the all-American fullback. In the game against the army at West Point, as well aa In nearly every game in which h figured, h waa the alar, Thorpe both pitched and pla ed first he ne with the Rocky Mount and Fatte. vllle team and aeveral big leagii manager man-ager ar aaid to have made htm oft era. He slso had a chance to play on a professional pro-fessional lac roes tram. During the Olympic gamee of 1HS be stood head and ahouHet above all the other athletea, not only In point of prowess, but In th attention h attracted. at-tracted. The king of Hweden told hlin he waa the greateet athlete In the world and Inaued him a eieclal Invitation to visit the palace, but Thorpe did not appear. ap-pear. It waa rumored that the king; Intended In-tended to bestow a decoration upon hi m. Thorpe won the peulatholon of five eventa and the decathlon, conatltulnff ten events. Theso covered practically every branch of track and field poeltlona fthortlv after hla return to America he won the American all-around championship. champion-ship. He waa to tmve competed tomorrow tomor-row night at the Kaatinae Athletic club games. Thorpe la a member of the Ton and ftitc Indian tribes, of about 1 year of age, and haa been at Car Hide for four years. H held a registration card In the A. A. U. for two year. Prior to Joining Join-ing that organisation be had won many eventa In college track meets. M. Fretd-man, Fretd-man, auperlntcndeiit of th Carlisle school, notified James K. Sullivan of the A. A. V. today tliat the prise won by Thorpe ar at the union' disposal, and Mr. Hulllvan inst meted him to aend them to th association office her. The prompt action of th amateur authorities au-thorities In the Thorp matter la being widely commended In th at hi tic world, and, while Thorpe' a admission came as a IE rest blow to every one 'interested In athletics, th summary handling of the rase by the union removes any prospect of d leered it fsJItnfc upon American athletics ath-letics In general. America's Olympic Standing Junes Thorpe must forfait all records rec-ords since 1909 and return all prlsea. Thla will mean that tha trophies and prises won In tha pan. tathlon must no flTon to T. BV Bis of Norway. Donahue, United States, f ata second place In tha pentathlon, n tha decathlon Weiaander of Hweden Hwe-den snperaadee Thorpe aa tha winner, win-ner, and Lomberg, also of Bwaden, eta second place. Thus Bwedan'a 27 polnta are Increased to 30 by tha decathlon, putting that country second Instead of Finland. Norway Nor-way 'a 9 points are augmented to V polnta by credit for tha pentathlon. Tha standing of tha rarloua countries coun-tries aa they wUI be whan points credited to Thorpe have been correctly cor-rectly distributed follows: United Btatea loaee 4 points for tha pentathlon pen-tathlon aud 3 for tha decathlon, reducing re-ducing tha original score of IS to 78; Sweden, with 3 points added for tha decathlon, haa so; Finland, 2fl; Great Britain, IA; Greece, 4; Hungary, 1; Germany, 4; Franca, 4; Canada, 7; South Africa, 6; Italy, 1. |