Arizona republican., 1912-07-14
MEYERS LOYAL
 ID COLLEGE
Wants Leave From Man ager McGraw to Coach Hanover College Baseball Team Next Spring; Chief Once an AriZonian

The best Indian of them all Chief John J. Meyers, leading hitter of the national league, premier backstop and the aboriginal pride of the McGraW crew, is coming to Denver on a visit immediately after the close of the worlds championship baseball series The principal object of his visit is to meet and personally to thank those Dartmouth graduates of Colorado who introduced him to the east. Incident ally he wants to show the Colorado country to his wife, for the chief is happily married
 In a recent message to R. C. Camp bell of Denver, who was responsible i for the determination of Meyers to | realize his ambition to become a l member of the worlds champion | Giants, the Indian announced his in l tention of coming west.
 There is good story connected | with the finding" of Meyers. His l Indian name is Tortes. He comes 1 originally from California. He was ] playng with an Arizona team in the 1 Albuquerque baseball tournament one | fall when Ralph Glaze of Denver, | and a mainstay of the Dartmouth | college athletics. spied him. The chief was big and husky good football and track as well as baseball mater l ial To Glaze, Meyers cOnfided his ambition to continue his education begun at a Catholc school in Califor- mia Meyers barely breathed to Glaze that some day he might rise to berth with the best baseball team l the world possessed.
 Coming through Denver Meyers met a number of Dartmouth graduates. It so happens that Darmouth was orig inally founded as Moore'S Charity School for Indians There still exists
 a large fund there for the education of Indians Meyers went back in
 September with the Glaze brothers and entered as a conditioned fresh
 man at Hanover. He lacked only
 mathematics and one language to
 qualify under the scholastic require ments to be permitted to play on the
 college eleven and nine. Because of
 this delinquency he was kept out of | college competition. to his intense
 disgust
 Johnny Glaze gleefully tells stories
 of Meyers first introduction to snow
 one morning when d four-foot blank
 ct of the beautiful covered the New
 Hampshire ground The chief s amazement doubly increased when he
 was ordered out to football practice
 in the slush. But he shivered through
 this without a murmur.
 1 Meyers never represented Dart
 mouth in intercollegiate athletics. He
 started playng baseball in the Trl-
 state league at Harrisburg under
 Fred Crolious, a former Dartmouth | star He then went to Butte ana then to St. Paul. In every league he
 led in hitting From St Paul he
 went to New York, where McGraw
 retained his hitting strength, al- though he changed his style at the
 bat The chief, according to those
 who have known him for some tlme'
 has vastly improved his backstop-
 ping and throwing ability. His only
 drawback is d natural one, and that is lack of speed on the bases. As long as the chief can hit 'em a mile and is trying. there is little likelihood
 Of waivers being asked.
 ] Johnny Glaze met the chief m l Boston recently The big Indian was
 radantly happy except for one thlng' | and that was because he had not had the preparatory school prepara : tiOn to enable hm to complete ms | course at Dartmouth. His dearest
 immediate wish is that McGraw will
 hermit him to spend month at Han
 over next spring helping coach the
 college baseball nine. Meyers has just signed a three e-year contract. lie | i ,,,aIlrnp in the path indicated by
 McGrav. and can have almost any
 reasonable privilege it is in the pow
 CT of the Little Napoleon to grant
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