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Show BIG JIM WILL MAKE GOOD Thorpe Expected to Make Splendid Showing Show-ing With Giants iBv Monte New York. Feb S Bis .Tim Thorpe will make good. That Is. he will make good again i'isr a", he did when his I'ncle Sam asked him to squelch the j rest of the world at Stockholm. Just ai he did when Glenn Warner sent! him forth to slaughter palefaces on I the gridiron, and Just as he did when I Jim Sullivan showed him ho playlnc piofesslonal baseball affected amateur ama-teur standing and a.ked if he was miilty Everybody knows now how Jim Thorpe made uood then. He said, 'Yes. Mr Sullivan, I did It" Now Johnns McGraw, asks Jim to make good as a New York Giants. Mm says he will try. which means, to those who knov. him, that he will succeed. Thorpe's Veen mind, stout heart and ability to concentrate himself iwhollv on "the particular task at hand makeB him the ideal type of man, I mentally and morally, to carve a name for himself in baseball's hall of fame One little occurrence within the last six months shows a splendid insight in-sight ir.to tho manner of man that is Jim Thorpe 0 at the National a'l-around championships at Celtic Park, Long Island, last fall. Thorpe was after Martin Sheridan's world's record Nearly all the events had been completed, and there were onlv the broad Jump and the half mile run remaining Coach Warner called Thorpe cside He said, "Jim, If you want that record, you'll have to beat twenty-one feet in the jump and also al-so exceed your best in the half Now. go to It!" Thorpe was all tired out He had gone through nn ordeal already that only unusual athletes will even at tempt Thorpe walked up to the take-off, measured off twontv strides from it, stood poised a moment to get the' proper balance, then tore down the narrow path and Jumped. When the figures, over twenty-' twenty-' three feet were announced, the thou-I thou-I sands prose and cheered him to the !echo His record was assured even ' with a mediocre performance in the 'half mile But Thorpe put his new I wmmwt, Kavnnii nil reachlie and canter ed home In the half mile over twenty vards ahead o! Bredemus of Princeton Prince-ton Thome puts this marveloui on-centratlve on-centratlve power into every single move he makes. In the game with j Penn. when the ramelous Tarlisle maihlne had crumpled, when big! Pocl! .ind Arcasa. Thorpe's fellow backs were out of the game, one for Infringement of the rules, and the' other with fai injury. Jim kept fighting fight-ing on. He wa- a nobie figure ln there battlinc against odds that seemed hopeless, yet never yielding an Inch when he had an opportunity to contribute toward what might be B chance for an eleventh hour turning turn-ing of defeat into victory Jim Thorpe, though he had carried the ball two thirds of the time in the earlv stages of the game, continue to be the onlv Indian that could make any impression on the hostile line or et'ilK He was fatigued to a decree that In most men would mean submission sub-mission yet he would gather all of himself together erh time and hurl it at thai rival phalanx. Can He Play Ball So much for tho-1? i.hases of Mr I Thorpe There an other things he; must have to be a ball player. Can he throw? Can he catch' Can he hit? Tan he run bases" He who has seen Jim Thome hur' h football thirty vards on a forward dcbs with merely an abrupt snap of the wrist, direct to the hands of the receiver, will have no doubts as to his ability to control th ball Those-who Those-who hae seen him hurl a discus and put a shoi will stake plent on his amount of "steam." His abllltv to iudKo and cutch a twisting spiral punt on the ded run seems to give a criterion on how he will take care of husehills In his terrlton Irnaelne I mon dashing from first bafe at a rate or ten seconds to the hundred anls. nd il.en broad Jumping twenty-three feet Into serond base. How would a second ha.seman feel with such a baserunner bound his war1 As to his batting; lea it to Johnny McGraw to teach those powertul arms and shoulders how to wield a bludgeon. blud-geon. An Athletic Wonder. Added from all this Is the paramount para-mount fact that Thorpe is on of those athletic wonder who prove great at anything phslcal the at- tempt, whether It be football, running. Jumping, baseball, golf, tennis, rowing or swimming. Sockalexis wa? the first Indian bis: leaguer, and he was great while hr lasted Chii-f Albert Pender was tho first of the present generation. He Is great. Chief John Fortes Meyers was the second He Is great. It Meyer's new team mate, and possibly attery mate. Chief James F. Thorpe, does not Join his kin on the top runs of the baseball ladder, rounding out a wonderful redman trio well but be will. Kansas City. Feb 7 Tommy Howell How-ell of Philadelphia and Spike Kelly of Chicago, welterweights, fought ten rounds to a draw hem tr,nitit While J Kelly apparently had the advantagejB on points, Howell was the aggressor aud landed more effectively 1 Although neither man was knocked lj down, each at th conclusion -f the L light had one eye almost i loseil. and K the faces of both were bleeding free- I t blcago, Feb 7 Zbyszko won bl Sj wrestling match with Raymond Ct-' Ct-' au b re tonight In straight fall- A The first fall was with a double ML bridge in U minute The. second came in 15 1.". with a croi body and wrilt Sh lock The bout was very rough and Mm both men were severely punished, j . Ik. |