The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-11
THORPE MAY JOIN
PIRATES TE A NJ
Greatest Athlete in World to
Break Into Professional
Baseball.

New York September io-It is not
/ been q far cry from the forest and
the Wild Stream to the big cities and
the iuAuries Of the paleface for sew
/ eral redskins who have made coin ana
( fame on tho green diamonds on the
/ baseball circuit While Lewis SOCK
aleXes was the most famous of the adj
vance guard OF Indian BAH players.
/ Bis CHIEF Myers and Sig Ch;ef Bender
have been the most notable OF tho
{ sons OF the Forest wno nave dalllel
. with the bat and the ball thereby
/ gaining celebrity and fortune
Next 20 football, the national game
has had the most powerful attraction
for Indians. Next year. II Uncle sam
does not object. there viii be another
star added TO the redskin galaxy OF
! diamond warriors Jim Thorpe. the
p greatest all-aroun5 athlete In tho
! world. is said TO have promised Pres
idcnt Barney Dreytuss. OF the PITTS
brrgh cldb. 10 sign with the Pirates
/ The winner OF the decathion and the
| pentathion at Stockholm and the foot
/ bail captain at Carlisle this fall VIII
break into professional baseball. the
/ sport to which nc says ne is Just
trifie partial.
But before he can sign with the Pi-
rates Thorpe must get the consent OF
| Uncle sam. lie belongs TO the sac ann
! OK tribe Of Indians. who are still
wards Of the government. and who
! must have the consent Of a government,
agent before they can transact any
business
Thorpe could have been signed with
the Pirates this season He did not
! care 10 because he had been elected
/ f.f
| ana wanted to preserve his amateur
/ standing In another year he will be
! through college and then the man who
! was too bashfui 20 be presented TO
| the King Of sweden hopes to be ac-
Claimed the same star on the diamond
ne mas been on the sridiron and track.
4horpe ought not to feel lonesome
in the big show. Probably now and
'hen he VIII run across Chief Bender.
/ also a Carlisle man. who has been ON.
/ OF Connie Mack's nainstays for the last
ten years or so II he tries for \
mound Job. as he plans TO do at pres
ent' Of course. he Will have the oppor-
tunity to try TO keep Chief Movers
/ from siamming the ball 70 all corners
o. the lot as he often does when bat
ting against "DaIeface" pitchers
4noFpe VIII not be the only Indian
recruit IN rAe big League. There ls
.euae Hendricks. o. the Pirates. ana
Ilteher George Murphy Johnson. pur-
chased from the St Joseph club bv the
Chicago White Sox
There Is scarcely minor league in
,ne country that does not boast of at
!east one or two Indian PLAYERS Ions
Leroy once with the iis-llanders. has
eeen winning pitcher for St. Paul
ior years. four years ago chief Meyers
- Ee,oy formed the only genuine
inoian battery in organized baseball
soih are college graduates. Meyers
har."g gone through Dickinson with
llisle. Car
Aoogt rAe only time an Indian fails
TO make good in professional baseb,Ii
Is when he tries 10 annvs a,.ars-a. - 49, -
.he dlamond in the afternoon ana in
we ,,ss m .f,' o. lesgue' at night THAT
was what put Socialists out OF brei-
ness years ago. When h. brol.. -,
T ~, In the halcyon days Of pats.
IeDeau, he was accounted the mos
promising younEster in the 49,
Booze got aim, and now he is contnn,
In his job IS a ferryman In Mainn