The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04
HE'S PERFECT Man
James Thorpe, Sac and Fox In
dian, Worlds Best.
His Measurements, Made I'm
der Oath, AstOnish Experts.

Carlisle. Pa. Jan. 4.-The perfect
physical man has been disclosed to
the world in the person of James
Thorpe, a Sac and Fox Indian at the
Carlisle Indian school.
AT the Olympic games held in
Stockholm, Sweden, he received the
car of Russia's trophy for winning
the DecathIon and that of the king
of Sweden for conquering in the
Pentathlon.
In Americas football season just
finished he was acclaimed by every
one in the United States and Canada
as the greatest all-around football
player the ancient game has ever pro-
duced.
He has been hailed as the greatest
athlete of all time by physical train
ers of Europe and America. The
task of making measurements of
Thorpe according to the anthropo-
metric tables in use in America and
in many foreign countries were made
under oath and are given herewith
metricalIy, also being reduced to
inches and tenths of inches.
They represent the proportions of a
man who not only has established the
greatest world record for combined
endurance, strength, speed and agil-
ity, before the paramount athletic
tribunal and has been recognized in
football, the manifest of sports, as
the greatest product of the game, but
who has, in addition, mastered nearly
every known sport, being proficient
in baseball, lacrosse, tennis, hockey,
basketball, handball, swimming, skat-
ing and half a dozen minor sports.
You'd Never Guess 1t.
Thorpe's body is gracefully mould
ed, and is, as is characteristic OF the
American Indian, remarkably free CT
the growths of hair that are the usual
accompaniment of tremendous
strength. His movements in prepara-
ton for great physical trials are
slightly numbering, heavy and indiffer-
ent looking to the eye. .Whlle ne is
we'll set up and has a naturally good
carriage, his full shoulders give the
least suggestion of a stOop, or SLOUGH
mess in attitude. The impression one
gains in seeing Thorpe walk in his
street clothes is that he is awkward.
He has an uneven gait, and there
is nothing suggestive in his appear
ance of the tremendous speed and
ability of which he has shown such
strong evidences.
a comparison Of James Thorpes
measurements with those of the aver
age American college student, compil-
ed few years ago, when allowance is
made for the fact that the average col
lege student was 10 years old ana
weighed 100 pounds not being trained
down to lowest weight, shows Thorpe,
who is now "a years of age and who
of flesh worked off of his body ISL
pounds, is far ahead of the type of
young men wrom whom his competl-
tors have been drawn. In practically
every proportion, including height, limp
lengths, girths, breadths and depths OF
various portions of his body, Thorpe,
trained down, exceeds the measure
ments of the average student compar-
atively unframed physically.
Additional tables are shown COM |
pairing the average American student |
of "a years of age, who weighs 10 |
pounds, with the worlds greatest ath- |
lete. These students, when measured, |
were also unframed or at least were in |
a condition where they bore a great |
deal of useless fat their bodies
They exceed Thorpe in practically all |
measurements of height except that of |
the lower limbs, where he has a slight |
advantage.
How Thorpe Is ''MuscIed."
In the lengths of upper limbs |
Thorpe averages a little less than the |
American student of the same age. |
ably those of head, hips, knees and |
calves. The Indian is. however, the
larger around and through the chest, |
but not in its width, while he has a
slightly larger waist. Exceptional de-
velopment to his advantage is shown
in his arms, preponderating strength |
picking up both up and down TOWARD
the middle of his forearm. His neck
and shoulders, waist and abdomen, are
also greater than those of the aver
age student of equal years. His lung |
capacity is very great and the strength
of his back, legs and forearm, remark
IDLY developed
For the purposes of fair comparison, |
1t must be remembered that the meas
urements of Thorpe as referred to