The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-30
TIE RED MAN IN
 MODERN SPORT Strength and Skill Win Success on Athletic Field
SOME FLEET RUNNERS
Distinguished in Baseball, Football and Motor Rnces-Character- istics Noted in Various
 Contests
From the New York Herald.

conducted on the field of sport, where the rivalry, if less deadly, is no less keen than it was In the days of yore. On this new field of battle the qualities that made the sewage Indian so dreaded foe make his twentieth century grandson a rival who must be respected. Endurance, pertinacity, subtle craft, keenness Of eye, swiftness of limb, sureness of touch, are inherited qualities no less useful in modern sport than in frontier warfare.
 The long train and the foody ambus- cade. where formerly the Indian sought to ertrap and kill his enemy, are now rep resented by the chalk-marked football field, the cinder-strewn running path, the greensward baseball field and latest of all, the oil-soaked road of the automo- bile course.
 From the reservations have come the feet-footed runners that have often made slower white men run in the dust from their heels. Out of the Indian schools. principally Carlisle, have come the sturdy football teams that by brawn and by cunning have humbled their white breth- ren before the gaze of multitudes. From off the plains of the west have come still another redman, who. at the wheel of a powerful automobile, has striven with skill and daring against the white man in terrifying. death-defying races. And the crafty Indians have more than once humbled their white brethren on the baseball field.
 The Indian warrior of today is the brave of three generations back, merely in a different environment Nothing was more natural than that ethe red man should turn to the most strenuous forms of athletic exercise as an outlet for the fierce energy and the restless spirit that had been pent up since they were de- spoiled of their wild patrimony Into these sports of the white people the Indians have brought many of their racial char acteristics, and there are many sports which we owe to the Indians, features or which their players had never though until the red men introduced them.
 Warriors on the Diamond
 What baseball fan is not now familiar with the fame of Chief Bender, pitcher of the Philadelphia Athletics, whose speed and skill won the first of the world s championship games in Shibe park last
 
 gone along pitching remarkable ball, achieving success quite as much by his shrewdness and strategy as by brute force and strength. Those who have watched the marvellous Bender have noted above all else his perfect disregard of the taunts and jeers, the shouts and cheers of the throngs about him. With the same stoic indifference for which the Indians have ever been noted he has oIn wit o{t. ci,. ,IIax- k<~ that of his ancestors trailing wild game through trackless forest
 Then there Is Big Chief Meyers, the catcher on the New York Giants More than one of his white opponents have fallen victim to his cunning when by a sudden, unexpected throw to the base he has caught a rash runner and put him out. Time after time has a swiftly thrown ball, suddenly defected by the bat of the batsman. maimed and torn the fingers and hands of Meyers, yet with the stoEd in- difference of his race he has given no sign of the pain he must have suffered.
 In the Football Field
 It is at the Carlise Indian school the most famous institution of its kind in the world, that the Indian of today displays most conspicuously the traits of his race.
 No game enjoyed by white people ap- pealed to the nature of the Indian lads III lnt bCnDCl IlOT6 llldH IOOtDdllt dIlQ TUT years their teams have proven worthy opponents for the best of the white elevens. In their football more than in any other game the Indians found op- portunities to display these character istics that Cooper delighted to portray in the Leather Stocking Tales" Hurts and bruises that sent his white opponents to the side lines failed completely to dampen the Indian spirits or to impair his ef- ficiency. For years the Carlisle lads played a greater number of games than any other team in the country. Begin ming at the very opening of the season, they have gone along meeting opponent after opporent weeks after other elevens have been willing and ready to stop for the year.
 Stoical indifference to pain has, how ever, not been the most prominent char acteristic of the Indian in football. Rath- CT has 1t been his strategy. The cunning craft that made him so dreaded a foe for the white man when the possession of the plains was at stake have made him just as worthy a foe now that the prize is but the glory of victory.
 It is not likely that those who saw the game nor those who participated in 1t will ever forget the Harvard Carlisle match of 1908. Victory seemed destined first to crown the standards of Harvard and later those of the Indians. Then turn of luck put the white boys in the lead. The time for play was drawing to a close. That the Indians with all their skill and all their perseverance were doomed to defeat seemed certain. And then came a play that will never be forgotten. The Indians got the ball. They were far from their opponents goal and the time was brief. The two teams lined up. Sud- denly the ball was mapped to one of the Indians. The others gathered about him for an instant and then scattered to ever part of the field. The Harvard players, confused stopped still. for the ball was nowhere in sight. Suddenly of to one side of the field a dark-skinned little man was seen running at top speed toward the Harvard goal The Crimson players dashed off in pursuit. but too late to prevent the touchdown. The Indian, Dillon was his name, had concealed the ball beneath his jersy. When brute strength had failed the red man had won by strategy.
 Swift Runners
 The historic fame of the Indians as swift runners has been fully borne out by the performance of the present day Long boat. Acoose and Red Hawk of this gen. eration and Deerfoot of the last have time after time run on and on until their white opponents dropped panting and breathless by the wayside. f
 It is true that in the last Vanderbilt cur race De Hymel. the first Indian ever to enter such a contest, did not win. This however, was no fault of the man. but rather that of the car So long as the car he was driving ran true no one in the great race displayed more courage or