Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-01-10
INDIANS ARE STARS
Of MAGNITUDE IN
SPORT WORLD
In Long Distance Running,
Baseball, Football, Wher-
ever Speed and Endurance
Are Needed, Redmen Excel.

Are Needed, Redmen Excel.
Indian uprisings are no longer con-
lined TO the bad lands" Of the west
.or to the pages chronicling the deeds
.Of Dead Eye Dick And neither IL
Il 10 the poor Indian" for our red
skin brother Is pretty able TO take
care Of himself This leads up 90 the
plot OF heap big lnjuns' la tho
world OF sport, such as. for instance.
Mighty Bender OF the diamond: Long
boat. man OF endurance: Thorpe OF
the hewitching toe and speedy legs:
Meyers, the stole behind the mask;
MCtroxen, the plunger. and scores OF
others who have put the paleiaces to
rOut without the necessity OF lifting
the scalplock
The stride Of the redman has been
rapid In many cases Il has Outstrip.
ped the bawny man OF lighter hue.
The Indian takes to sports as a duck
TO water lie is In his element whore
battles rage, but he is more quiet
about a. than the whittier Indians"
who are turned loose on the diamond
and gridlrons. He gocs about his
victories In a methodical way and In
straight line His natural cunning
is rapidly being sacrlchced Go the
science of the game. and In this he
has proved a great adapter.
Gained Fame Quickly.
Twenty years ago there was hardly
an Indian athlete of note. with the
exception of the one solitary figure
peCriOOt. The fame Of this son of the
Rend as ne shot across the athletic
sky like q meteor only to be snuffed
out after a few brilliant performances
on this continent and later in Eng
land Discovered somewhere west OF
the Red river country by an English
man, he was persuaded TO cross the
big water and at once became the
sensation OF the English sporting
world. lie was fast ON bis legs, Dut
Il was his remarkable endurance thai
brought him fame.
As time went by and with the
government taking a hand in the
training OF the Indian the develop
ment was rapid, and here Is where
the Indian school at Carlisle comes
into prominence fhe great majority
OF an the bem hogan athletes have
come from the Pennsylvania institu-
ton.
As there are no restrictions as to
the number of years an athlete may
pursue the calling OF gridiron base
ball field or the running track, those
inclined that way attain a proficiency
In many branches of sport impossible
In the white mans college, where
scholastic requirements put brakes
on the athletes ambition as soon as
he begins to get real good In any
particular branch That is one OF
the main reasons why Carlisle pro-
duced such football stars rs MetoXen.
WheeloCk, Pierce Hudson, Libby,
Mount Pleasant Rogers, Warren,
and many others The same holds
for track athletics and baseball, al
though the latter has not secured the
foothold at Carlisle that the former
has.
Speed and Endurance.
Il Is where speed, endurance, cum
Ing and pure grit counts that tho
Indian athlete shines. That is what
makes the red man the greatest OF
football players. That yellow streak
tagged ON TO the average Indian has
been proved TO be- generally lacking
and the generally accepted opinion
that the aborigue is unwilling to
stand the gait In an emergency has
also been shown myth There has
never been greater nerve shown
than by Indian football players, An
Indian does not usually quit, lie Is
carried to the side lines
In picking ont individual stars
Charles Albert Render. pitcher OF tho
Athletics, crowds pretty close to the
front among Indian athletes. Bender,
who halls from The tribe OF Chip
pewas, has been ated as one OF the
greatest pitchers Of the game For
la time BENDER Ike many another
copper-tinted Apollo, came near going
the way of the rest, but no braced
and has been good Indian" for
several years. Hc is not alone
great athlete. bul he Is man OF IN
telligence and iudguent To which the
New York giants and others are Will
ing 10 testify
Among the prgsen' day athletes
young Jim Thornc OF Carlisle rs
marvel There is hardly a sport I'm
which he Is not % star. For instance,
he can run 100 Yards In 10 seconds.
can put the shot Oh feet; has a mark
OF 20 feet in the broad Jump and
feet I inch IA me high jump Ills
time In the hurdles comes near to the
record and his marvellous feats In
football are OF recent history lie Is
an expert in baseball, hockey lacrosse.
tennis ard basketball He Is prac'
tically certain a. he chosen for the
Olympic games.
AS for long distance runners Tom
Longboat Is perhaps the most noted
since the days al DecrfoOt He was
a marvel az the Marathon distance.
but the ways of the paiotRooE put him
ont of condition a. a time when IL
/ looked as II he would eclipse all
known records. Thgn there Is rewan-
ina, another Carlisle product This
red man Is much lie Thorpe IN being
an all-arOund athlete, and he. per-
haps ban more trophies To his name
than any other Indian living
Meyers Great Player.
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