Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-10
UNCOVERED THORPE
Peter Boyle Unwilling Cause
of the Indians Undoing.
IN TRADE WITH BIG jim
Thought He Was Boosting the
Great Athlete to Sport
ing Writer.
IN TRADE WITH BIG jim

BOSTON. Mass, February 1O.-Jim
Thorpe. the champion athlete. may
feel badly. doubtless does feel badly,
over the loss of his standing as an
amateur. but he cannot feel any worse
about it than does Peter Boyle, the
Riverpoint, r. l.. ball player who was
the unwilling cause of Thorpe's un-
doing
Peter Boyle is spending the winter
at his home and working in the print
works at Apponaug. r. L., until the
time comes to go into training with
his team. the Winston Salem team of
the Carolina League
His story follows: 1T was this way:
was called to the telephone at Duff
fy's store at Clyde. When l got there
l found that the man at the other end
was a Pawtucket sport writer that 1
knew by meeting him occasionally
when playing ball at Pawtucket He
asked me if l knew Thorpe. l said,
Yes. Why?
Admitted Trade.
He said. Clancy had a piece in the
Worcester paper about Thorpe and
went on to say Were you in some
kind of a trade in the Eastern Caro-
lima League?'
Il said Yes. 1 was in a trade from
Fayetteville to Rocky Mount. The
trade included Thorpe and Schuman.'
He inquired. is this Thorpe boozer?'
replied. That is something 1 would
not say about any of them I said
Thorpe was nothing alarming az a
pitcher. although he might have i'm
proved since, but he was a fast man.
yA6 e,v1b%
ming race down there. l said. Yes. 1
ran 100 yards with Chief Thorpe at a
benefit game arranged for Mike DonO-
van He asked me If ! had seen the
BrOwn-Carlisle game in Providence
Thanksgiving day. and l said No, l
couldn't get ticket.
Then he asked me II / was going back
to Winston this year and l told him l
was. He rang off. I supposed that the
sport writer was quizzing me to get some
a boost, and thought no more about it
until l saw a Boston paper Sunday morn
ing.
Then it was I got wise to the fact
that the sport writer had been at me not
to get something to boost the chief but
to knock him. What said was no secret
down in Carolina, and / never thought for
minute I was giving anything away.
Never Thought of Story.
Il supposed until this thing came out
that professional and amateur athletics
were all mixed up together in the Olym-
pic games last summer. and / supposed
1t was just q matter of course for the
college players to make few dollars in
the summer playing in the professional
and emi-professional leagues in different
parts of the country.
When | was called up by the Paw
tucket man l didn't suppose / was being
interviewed or that what l said was to be
published / just supposed that he was
getting something to use in the paper TO
boost Chief Thorpe and that | wouldn't
be mentioned one way or another.
IF l had been wise then as ! was
the next day wouldn't have said a word.
and since then until now / haven't said a
word to any newspaper writer on this
subject.
a number of things have been pub
lished as coming from me which | never
said. What did say was good deal
more than would have said II j
had known the use IT was going TO be put
to. but what | have told you is practi-
cally all that 1 said, and ! want to re-
peat it,