The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-10
REDSKINS LEAD
IN ALL SPORTS
INDIANS ARE NATURAL ATH-
LsTEe-cHlEF BENDER, HUD-
SON, MOUNT PLEASANT
NOTABLE EXAMPLES.

No nation since the gaseous nebula
became a planet called earth has pro-
duced. in proportion to his per centage
Of neople. more famed and gallant ath-
letos than the American Indian and he
T., not confined to any one realm Of
sport.
Chief Albert Bender of the Athletics,
a Carlisle graduate, is one of the best
nitchers who ever trampled a hurting
heap. and for the Athletics he has won
his share of games in three pennant
races. 1902, 1905 and 1910, and he wen
q game i'm the worlds series this sea-
son. lie is, according to Ira Thomas,
the greatest speed pitcher in the coun
try and the cutest curve finger in Ell
ther league.
Bender is one of the best shots i'm
the land, and he is to work for one of
the big gun factories this winter.
Chief Meyers of the New York, is
Al
seasons amply fill tht shoes of Roger
Rresnahan. late Giant, now manager,
Of the Cardinals. Myers has been ~
bic help to Manager McGraw, and i'm
addition to being a backstop who, with
Indian vile, BATTLES the best batsman,
he is sticker of no mean rank. He
greatly aided in beating the Highland
ous i'm the New York state champion
ship.
Soxalexis, the Indian outhelder of
Cleveland, was one of the baseball
players who retired, went back To the
mines before he reached his prime. lie
was as good a thrower as ever shot a
hail from the outer garden to the plate
and a corking hitter and a splendid
man on the bases.
Motor cars are out of the reach or
desire of most Indians. but i'm Tom
De Hymel. who pilots n huge racing
car the sons OF the forest have as
faultless and daring n driver as ever
entered curve. rushing like the wind
ablast.
De Hymel has been driving only a
short time, but his thrilling turn talk
ing i'm the Vanderbilt and Paramount
park race is still talked Of
ON the corpeted green the Indians
are feared by every college i'm Amcri
ca that play them, and. as a matter Of
fact, Princeton and Penn alone of the
big four meet the redskins on the foot
ball field.
Mount Pleasant was one OF the best
quarterbacks who ever tramped a
gridiron. This lean. fieetfooted fellow
was almost on par with Vincent Ste
venson. except that he did not have
the band of marvels i'm front of him
and built about him which was the
fortune Of the greatest of all quarter
backs.
Pete Houser. the juggernaut line
rammng fullback; Bemis and Hawley
Pierce. the great linemen of the Car
Isle team, and Whuseka, tn tumbling
ball who tore up the lines of Penn and
Harvard, were all famous Carlisle In
dams.
Frank Hudson, the greatest kicker,
not barring Pat O'Dea, Marshall Rey-
nolds, Billy Bull or John De Witt. who
ever hoistcd a spiral. was an Indian.
He was the greatest goal kicker known
to football. and one of his best stunts
was stand in front OF the goal posts
with five footballs i'm his arms. He
would drop them in quick succession
to the ground and MS each touched the
earth he toed them through the goal
posts. He could dropkicll as far as
hfty-lve yards.
Mount Pleasant was a crack broad
jumper and went to England with
Mike Murphy to the Olympic games.
Thorpe. another Carlisle, won five
iirsts in "a recent Amateur Athletic
union track meet I'm Gotham.
There was the great Wheelock, Lib
by, Afraid -of "a Bear, Exedine and
Gardner
Deerfoot, the first of the Indian run
hers has records which stand today.
lie toured the world and made good
against the best brought to race him.
Tom Longboat was the fleetcst dis
lance runner of his age. but Tom was
Jockeyed for the money many times.
He won the real indoor race of races
when he took the famous Alfred
Shrubb off his feet for the first time
~ his life. Longboat was the best of
MS race, even If his methods of train
ing were slack and he cared but little
Tor the game aside from the money 1t
brought him.