Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1914 — THORPE A BASEBALL PLAYER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THORPE A BASEBALL PLAYER

Famous Indian Athlete Established World’s Record for the All Around Championship.

James Thorpe, the Indian football and baseball player, and track athlete, was born on a ranch near Prague, Okla, May 28, 1888. After he had attended the Haskell Indian school for two years and a half and a public

school at Prague for two years, he entered Carlisle in 1904. At Carlisle Thorpe*was taken in hand by Coach Warner, who developed the athletic ability of the Indian and made him the greatest athlete of the day. At . Carlisle Thorpe was a star on the field, track, gridiron, and diamond. At the Olympic games at Stockholm last July he won the pentathlon and decathlon. Two months later he established a new world’s record for the all around championship of the A. A. U. at Celtic park. New York. Thorpe’s public confession a short time ago that he had played professional bareball while competing as an amateur caused the A. A. U. committee to erase his championship marks from the official record. He is a member of the New York Giants at present

Jim Thorpe.