Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-01-15

the time twice around the clock with
out seeming fatigue.
AS time went by and with the gov.
eminent taking a hand in the train
ing Of the Indian the development was
rapid. and here is where the Indian
school at Carlisle comes into promi--
nence The great majority of all the
best Indian athletes have come from
the Pennsylvania institution.
Pure Grit in Them.
1t is where speed, endurance, cum
ming and pure grit counts that the
Indian athlete shines. That is what
makes the red man the greatest Of all
football players. That yellow streak
tagged on to the average Indian has
Eeen proved to be generally lacking,
and the originally accepted topinion
that the aborigine is unwilling to stand
the gaff in an emergency has also been
shown a myth There has never been
greater nerve shown than by Indian
football players. An Indian does not
lines
Bender in the Front Ranks.
In picking out individual stars,
Charles Albert Bender, pitcher of the
Athletics, crowds pretty close to the
front among Indian athletes. Bender,
who halls from the tribe Of Chippe-
was, has been rated as one of the
greatest pitchers of the game. For a
time Bender, like many another cop
Per tinted Apollo, came near going the
NaJ of the rest but getting out of
a clinch with John Barleycorn he
b1aced and has been a good Indian
for several years. Bender is not alone
a great athlete, but he is a man of in
telligence and judgment, to which the
New York Giants and others are will
ing to testify.
Among the present day athletes
young Jim Thorpe Of Carlisle is mar
1 vel. There is hardly a sport in which
/ he is not star. For instance, he
can run 100 yards in ten seconds; can
put the shot 43 feet; has a mark of
1 20 feet in the broad jump; and G
/ feet l inch in the high jump. His
/ time in the hurdles comes near to the
record, and his marvellous feats in foot
| hall are of recent history. He is an
expert in baseball, hockey, lacrosse
/ tennis and basketball. He is. practi-
cally certain to be chosen for the
! Olympic games.
Lonsboat a Star.
As for long distance runners, Tom
j Longboat is perhaps the most noted
/ since the days Of Deerfoot He was
a marvel at the Marathon distance
but the ways Of the palefaces. put him
cut of condition at a time when il
locked as if he would eclipse all known
/ records. Then there is Tewanima, an
/ other Carlisle product This red mar
! is much like Thorpe in being an all
/ around athlete, and he, perhaps; has
more trophies to his name than any
other Indian living.
/ Then, barking back to baseball
/ there is Chief Meyers of the New Yorl
/ Giants, ball player every inch of him
He was really the one great player il
the worlds series among q host Of
palefaced Giants. Leroy Of st. Pau
made q great mark in the American
association with tie ST. PG1l club.
Many IN Football.
In football they are legion. TIL
fame Of each practically centers in tn,
Carlisle eleven. There are Hudson
famed kicker; Sockalexis, Wheelock
Houser, Mount Pleasant, Remus Pierce
! Seneca, Libby, MeloXen, Warren an,
Miller, all great runners, line bucker
or powerful forwards. Ard there wa
Rogers from Carlisle, who in due tim
became captain of the University 0
Minnesota.
Outside OF this list there are man,
others who have figured in the coun
| try's sport, but these are enough t
SHOW that the Indian is getting civil
ized and making it pay.