The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-12
Jim Thorpe, Winner of
Olympic Honors, is the
Worlds Best Athlete
BASEBALL, BASKETBALL, AND LA
ROSSE RAG AND FIELD ALL SEE IN
DIAL MARVEL LEADER.

INC Heap muc'lee bull.
Nodamgoodoldwarrior. He's nix.
Cniet Bender. Chief Thorpe. hot stuff;
great scout: heap much helafalot bet
ter old chief; dodamucheesood."
And they're right. There has never
been an athlete like Thorpe: it is a
cinch almost that there never will be
another like him. He kicks into any,
thing In The line of sport. He is known
as a gridiron hero. But he doesn't
SHINE any more in the anti-haircut
league than he does on the diamond.
Let's start with football. however. and
we'll tell something about his king
pin Of them all.
James Thorpe reaches into the at
mosphere at 6 feet and a fraction.
He Is a big man; height, weight. abiIi-
ty and personality.
NOW when Il warriar is forced to &C
company 100 pounds on the hoof, it
Is no cinch. And when the aforesaid
lSo on the heel is accompanied by the
speed OF a meteor O have some fell
low. When Jim came to Carlisle. II
didn't take the coach there long to as
certain that he had discovered some
star. Thorpe was placed at fuliback.
he U do anything. AS a line
bucker. Jim goes through the oppos-
ing forwards like a wife through hub
by's pockets. AS IL punter, he is pref
" 1air, pretty fair, me boy, and then
Iairer than that. He can do anything
.hat is necessary. He is All-Ameri-
cameo ny no less eminent a young cr;.
TIC than Mr.. Walter Camp, who in
vented the Burke's Peeruge of foot
ball. ~
NOW MY. Thorpe is n second Carlos
Albertus Bender when he gets into
hasebal haberdasheyy and starts 10
moo en- across. He is a twirler. and
some twirler. lie has the old hop on
me tast one, and his curves break as
last as the waves on a seashorr. He
Is some pitcher. When he fngs tia,
lltile bunch Of yarn. horseshoe and
rubber. with $50 pounds popping the
steam for h throw. he'll make SINE
OF the big leaguers dine from his
disits. Already there are rumors thar
jim Will O the spangles for a ma or
league team in 1912.
" course, YOU all heard how he
held a king in his hand over at Stock
holm. Not exactly a king in his han1.
but a kings hand in his. That's bet.
tel. the king was Gustave. the main
squeeze of Sweden. King told Thorre
n a he was the greatest athlete -,
the world. When Jim got to Paris he
knew, for he haa to HIDE from tn:
erandes DANES who wanted either 10
marry MIN or bug him Wine.
One of the ncat little athleti" events
that they hal in the last s,.y:np..
games was the p~ntathlc,. y,r;..1,
means five selected events. II" g
o 1t; 1t was so easy hat So 80.
nave strapped enc OF his l:.ht :'n,h,.
IKE a potato racers and tacn beat tn,
neld: Another event for which 4. nan,.
mas heen inverted 20 give q r"wal ave,
reader lock aw is the d%ccathlon. Tit:
means aH-around championship w::l
a couple OF English TRIMMINGS, e:t,rl
l,accarat Or bowling for sirm. :"
Something after tat fashion a:.ynaA
Ihorpe wo, that so ~ri1irulnns.y cas-,
that it was like taking INC stiyi,r.,
OUT of Il blind mans nc.kiic.
Jim was rcccpticned on his W..
nome. In Tar::a Hc was erected Ivy q
tremendous ovation. eevn,a! lrrenrn.
men kissed him before Thorpe ecu.
can a cap or slap them on the wris'
himSelt. otarr F~rcnchracn d!du'1
kiss him beoaus" Jim vas wisr tt
them. The ZONE fell over hin, i,
alteration.
He came back AMI vas elected c,p.
tain OF the Carlisle eleven. jim "a.
been bootinE. running. plunging. ta.ii.
ling and touchdowning cvcr since III.
season opened.
Now If YOU want to know vn,
'S 'He S.tittSt ithieIc IN thf
world pin your cr'7" TO statistics. III.
athletic stunts have KEY; him as nu,,
as e ore-armed blacksmith with in.
hives. Here's MIR. Thorpe reduced te
figures:
1o0-yard dash-1o 2-5 seconds.
1o0-yard hurdle-15 3-5 seconds.
:2o-yard hurdle-o5 seconds.
4AO-yard dash-52 3-5 seconds.
Snntput-45 feet / inch.
Di.cus-l22 feet 8 inches.
High Jump feet 3 inches.
Broad Jumps feet 3 inches.
Hammer throw. 1922 feet.
Pole vault--10 feet 8 inches.
Observation-Disclosures back.
BasebalI-Star pitcher.
MISUNDERSTANDING forward.
Basketball-Star guard.
General-World's greatest athlete.