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Show THORPE RETIRES FROM ALL SPORT Yields to Age and the Call of the Wild. Jim Thorpe, colorful Indian athlete, has heard the call of age. His announcement of retirement came after he had led the St. Petersburg Peters-burg professional football team through a scorless battle with the Winter Haven club for which less than 300 paid admissions. "One must quit some time," said Thorpe. "My earning days in athletics are at an end and while sports have been my livelihood, I have really played for the love of competition. Now I have a yearning to hunt and fish back with my people." He is preparing to satisfy his yearning yearn-ing and return to his home at Yale, Oklahoma, there amid his people to hunt and fish. Thorpe, now forty, has been active ac-tive in the world of sport for 20 years coming to Carlisle Indian school in 1900. He immediately attracted attention. In 1912 he won the individual championship cham-pionship in the Olympic games at Stockholm. Sweden, but later was charged with professionalism and returned re-turned his medals, presented by the king of Sweden. After the Olympic games, he turned to professional sports, entering baseball base-ball as a member of the New York Giants, later bsing associated with teams in the American association and the International league. Football, however, claimed Thorpe's attention each fall since he entered Carlisle. The past season he started with the New York Giants pro football foot-ball team, later going to Florida to organize a team to play "Red" Grange's eleven at Tampa. In his last game, Thorpe had two former Carlisle stars on his team, as In Carlisle days Little Twig at end, and Pete Calac at fullback. At times in the game, Thorpe showed flashes of former brilliance, getting off two punts for 65 yards and an attempted at-tempted 00-yard dropkick which missed the crossbar, by inches. |