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Show W THORPE WILL MAKE GOOD, SAYS M'GRAW I . York March 8. Tn a letter to H 1 Tnd In Now York Manager John McGraw has written that he believes H PJlm Thorpe, the great Carlisle Indian H Ki ' make as big a name for N ahimself in baseball as be has In other j branches of sport Thorpe's speed and his Quick wit- I 1 tednesB are his greatest assets The first few days he spent at the Giant's training camp at Mnrliu Springs Tex he did not show up very promising, and seemed to have marked difficulty in getting after ground balls when I Manager McGraw put him at fir6t base. Latest reports tell of the mark- ' ed Improvement in the big Indian's fielding and ol the way he is slain ming all sorts of pitching to the lour comers of the lot As was expected Thorpe is di rnon on the bases Ilia speed. lumping ability and Judgment of distance stand him In good stead In this department of the game Tie has been an apt pupil pu-pil in learning the fall-away hook slide His strength in the line Insures In-sures his retention on ihe Giants' list and one year of McQrawn course on the bench should make him the Ty Cobb of the National league. 1 fleetness of foot had led him lo make .one play the smash as a sacrifice fly. So far as the fleetness of fooc was concerned, he was rtght. but he had reckoned without Birmingham' arm. which heaved the ball from the. fence in one of the deepest fields In the major league's to ihe plate qui k-er k-er than the speedy Stone could canter can-ter from third. McAleer told the scribes afterward (hat Birmingham caught the ball with his bare throwing hand, turned completely com-pletely around and made Ills remark able throw all In one single w hirl j Clark got the ball In time to make an easy triple play if on,- had been needed, need-ed, as Williams was clear past second sec-ond at the time The latter, by the way. was one of thf most rstoulshed individuals one could want to ser when he realized what Birmingham had done |