The Alaska citizen., 1913-09-01

There is something beautiful about an Indian. There is something heau. titul about the thought Of one. They are the only real Americans after all and as We view their grea', same struggle of 2G0 years against the IencroaChes of the white man and civilization We cannot help hl.; ad u re them now as the darkness of time and oppression gradually brings 'o a close their day.
 And did not you. yourself. th,nk mewhat of feathers and moccas us aud little teFee out under the c,oudless sky of the vests great outdoors? Maybe a bronzed face shrouded in a varied colored Indian blanket, which enfolds the squatted figure seated en mat in front of the smoking topped wigwam.
 Maybe. It is only natural that you and l should don't let the chief near you because he won't Ike it. Meyers is so far removed from the Indian of our imagination that he dislikes the association. John Tories Meyers Is a gentleman and a schol- ar He was educated at Dartmouth i University. But We are getting ahead Itf our story-stealing second with the bases full. as it were.
 Starting it anew-IF Meyers col id. mt play ball he would now he mas .ne hits around the Lyceum League circuit. He would be a lecturer like Dr. Charles Eastman We say like Dr. Charles Eastman" because t as this well-known speaker who was 1 little Meyers model-the puidinL star Of his youth.
 Jhon Tortes (his Indian namey .;s 1C:D riverside, Ca ar a's yo1lhtu! t-avy hitting ia ,c".. Sl cn. aroar.d Il at section U i,. Bear Flag 'ou' try. Firs .na h. stinctively his mind turned to base ball as played by the young white men of his neishborhood. so III st of his time, spare and otherwise. was spent walloping the ball around the i big field that served as school yard for the youth of Riverside
 In 1908 the young Indian was 50 adept at his favorite pastime that the Clifton, Ariz.. team added him to their lineup. It was while down there playing in the alkali dust of cowboy land that John Tortes mind wandered from the game. He hap Ipened to attend lecture of the noted Indian author and speaker. Dr. Charles Eastman lmmediateiF 1 Tortes's mind changed. Hans Wag- ner was no longer his model. but Dr. Eastman. IL seemed nice to be able to travel ill foreign lands Ike l him, and know so much. l. must be pleasant to receive big pay for knowing something that other people ''O PcN hlio"' u N1i tlIiits Noii1t 't great to stand up there on a plat form and give voice to ones .eat.,ns.
 It certainly would.
 So he began studying day and night, and in 1905 he was hitting Darwin, Plato. Euclid and the rest of those old pitchers all over the lot.
 It was easy fer him to pass the examinations and enter Dartmouth. But here (CussesD enters the viii | Ian and scatters the books and spoiled the plot. Meyers might be known today as that famous auth or and lecturer on the topics of the day, John Tortes"-if baseball had not butted in.
 After two years his mind swung back like a pendulum, and once more the chief longed for the war club and the scream of the base hit. They would not let him play ball al college, being a professional. having played ball in Arizona, you remem- l Der So it was easy for Harrisburg. l Pa, to entice him from school to catch for them.
 Then in the latter part of 190, Butte, Mont. got him. The following year St. Paul bought him for sl,5e0. In 1909 New York secured him for $6000, and he sealed the bargain by making two home runs on the day of his arrival at the Polo Groundt, and as We all know he has been hit ting 1t up most successfully ever snce.
 But Meyers is not sorry Neither are the fans. He is proud of his education and has a right to he. and when he talks to you in that low kindly voice of his, using the best of language. you will be sur prised-surprised the same as We were.
 NEW YORK July 31-Trade winds blowing through the City of Straits continue to fan the future of Tyrus Raymond Coob, the temperamental