Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1917 — Jim Thorpe To Oppose Hammond Club Sunday [ARTICLE]

Jim Thorpe To Oppose Hammond Club Sunday

Jim Thorpe, world’s greatest athlete will be in the line-up of the Detroit Heralds Sunday, when that club faces Frank Blocker’s Hammond team at the A. A. park in Hammond. Thorpe is the man who won so many of the events at the Olympic games held in Stockholm, Sweden in 1912, and while a member of the Carlisle Indians football team was heralded as the greatest football player to ever don the moleskins. Providing the Hammond team wins, a game will be arranged by Manager Parduhn with the Massillion, 0., Tigers, for a gamp for the professional championship of the United States. Numerous other stars will appear in the line-up of the Detroiters and the game promises to be the hardest fought of the season.