The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-03

the time, because he is slwava in cond''
ton lie was horn that way. He urst
attracted the attention of the world OF
college athletics during his second year
at the Carlisle school. which means his
second years experience IN athletics
when in dual meet between Carlisle and
Syracuse University, Thorpe amazed the
officials by. capturing first place in both
the high and low hurdles, defeated Thor,
the great shot-putter. and took tirst IN
that event. grabbed first place IN both
high and broad Jump, and took second in
the hammer throw. In the same year.
ri the Pennsylvania intercollegiate meet
Mt Harrisburg, Pa. Thorpe won the high
jump with a. jump of SIX feet. and cap
tured first place in the broad Jump,
hammer throw, and high and low hur-
dies \ week or two later, in the Md
die Atlantic Athletic Association meet,
held at Philadelphia, Thorpe also grab
bed off first place in the five events men
toned above in competition with the
best college athletic stars Of the esst.
By tins time the college athletic world
was simply laying back and gazing in
open-mouthed astonishment at this new
Redskin marvel. while expert physical
trainers looked nj his spare limbs and
Just shook their heads and wondered
where he kept 1t all. In the fsll OF
his second year Carlisle Thorpe was a
substitute on the football team. and the
next year broke into the game as
regular PLAYER at hajf-back and scored
the touchdown that tied Penn 1t was
in this Penn game that he found himself
and first began to astonish the football
world as be had astonished the world
of college athletics.
Following this he failed to return from
bis summer vacation and missed term
at the Carlisle institution. but this fall
he returned and renewed his conquest
of the paleface on the football field in
such whirlwind fashion that he has com.
PEELED the college football experts 10
acknowledge this wild Indian to be the
best hah-back the game has ever known
Thorpe's whole ambition in life now is
to gain place on the Olympic team.
which ambition will no doubt be graft
fed, anil if any old nation in the wide
universe can dig up anything that can
eihotuti bule TeOSfDn nerVel in the all
round events all past records will be
kicked into the middle of the Mediter
ranien Sea. that's all
Most Indifferent of Athletes
Thorpe Is probably the most Indifferent
athlete we have ever had He makes no
special preparations for his efforts. and
simply meanders csrlessly up to his
tasks and does them in an unconscious
way that paralyzes the spectators. There
Is nothing showy or suggestive of ex-
treme effort in his work In this respect
he is the Lajole OF the athletic field.
Thorpe Is q living exemplifcation of
the saying that there are better fish
in the sea than have ever been caught"
and just how close this fish came to es.
Gaping the net and living out his entire
existence splashing around in the un-
known depths of some obscure pool is
shown by the incident, or accident, that
WAS responsible for the discovery of the
greatest all-round athlete the world has
ever seen.
On his native heath in Oklahoma
Thorpe, whose father was a trader. and
later a farmer. was considered but an
average Indian youth. He had shown
no athletic ability that was calculated
10 startle the natives. and was, in fact,