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Show LO THE POOR INDIAN TO BE REAL FACTOR LN BASEBALL IN 1913; Cklel Ueadvr UUj, JUu lUaryc U calcr, -LUlel ilejcia ud Utntc Juhiuti (right) Let us dry our eyes and weep no more over the unhappy fate of Lo, the poor Indian. Time was perhaps when he needed our sympathy, but Lo has got into baseball now and we poor palefaces are the ones who need the tears. For I-o bids fair to put it all over us In the national game. Just consider some of the braves j who are f;oing to star on big league diamonds in 1911!. First of all might be mentioned Thief Bender of the I Philadelphia Athletics, who Is one of j the best twirlers the game ever saw ) Ho has signed up for another year, and if the Quaker City team wins the peunaut in H1S much of the credit i for tho achievement mill be due to him. Etobably just as good a player as Render is "Chief Meyers of the New York Giants. He also has signed up for 1913. As a backstop he Is just about the last word, and 'Muggsy" KcGraw expects lhl6 redskin to be a big factor in winning another pennant pen-nant for the Giants this coming season. sea-son. Two Indians who are just coming up on the big lonjruo horizon but from whom much is expected this year are George Johnson aud Jim Thorpe, twirlers respectively for the Chicago White Sox and the Now York (ilants Johnson pitched for St. Joseph last year and made a record which attracted attract-ed favorable attention from ComiskeT Thorpe hasn't done a great deal In I baseball, but he has succeeded so fl splendidly in every other branch of lLbbbbbbI ; athletics that it is believed he will soon be counted as one of the real TssssBsa 'stars of the diamond. fissBBBsa Another Indian who is expected to Tbbbbbbh distinguish himself in fast company riBBBBBa this year la Mike Dalenti, the Alas- IubsbbbI Kan redskin, who has Just signed up tl with the St Louis Browns Balenti fj made a very good record on tho dla- LbbbbbbbI mond while at the Carlisle Indian lijBal Other Indians may show to adcant- 1 PJH ace beforo the 1913 season Is far ad- Sll vanced. Several players in the big IsbbbbbbI leagues, including Zach Wheat of IH Brooklyn, though not full-blooded IH redskins, have a goodly amount of liH Indian blood in their veins rBBBBBBBa! |