Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-12-14
THORPE ARRIVES HERE
n. WITH EIGHT WARRIORS
Advance Guard of Team, Which
Will Oppose Locals Saturday,
Is Chartered mt Hotel.
OTHERS TO .FoLLow LATER
Six Additional Men Reach Rich.
mond Before Saturday - Cty
Agog Over Contcst-Nisitors TO
Practice M Wcsthampton Today.

Not since those good old days when
Richmond got all doiicd up In its
Westward TO the bail uark on
Thanksgiving pay has there been
quite as unanimous mind IN sport
: dom's realm as now.
Jim Thorpe premier Of all the
wcarcr's of the mole skin. together
with more than a bakers dozen OF
At least Jim Thorpe is here. and
At least Jim Thorpe Is mere and
Cochran is here. and Spcck is here.
: and Murphy is there, and ,alac is
: here. And what is more 10 the point,
the rest Of them are on their way
here. Meaning o'Counor. Henry.
: Lowe, Whclan and Guyon-bui why
!. keep spreading il on
Saturday Thorpe and his crowd viii
do battle with Turner Bethel and his
: gang. Ordinarily ono would believe
!. LA Jim Thorpe had gathered enough
= talent together TO cause the Stoutcst
heart To quake. ANA ordinarily one
would lac right. But in that football
game Saturday there viii hc battle
between more than Tire ordinary ar
ray Of ability found in your garden
variety OF football clashes.
HcthcI Iins Capable Team.
While Jim Thorpe has been called
u whole eleven in himself 10y some
7of the smartes; judges of football
ability in The country, and while 1t
is equally true that there viii not
he a man in his lineup hat mas not
been selected by sport writer's as OF
Nall-AmvricaS callher. bc II mere and
now asserted that Captain Turner
Bethel has gathered unto himself 4
-cian that is going TO stand an awful
slot Of beating before the final score
is hung up against thcu--i!. indeed
tho tribe Of Bethel is not able To
send the Indian and His warriors on
The homeward trek trailing the flag
OF defeat.
\ line that can boast OF "A Pete
WILSON. Il clyde Shepherd. :, George
NFandy, a Lee Wilson and a Turner
..hcl, viii have no need OF a feather
OF any color. other than red. and
fiery. CORY red AT that, Then there
..ie Harry Carter and Fob Brown--a
pair of ends that will break M any
thing short OF ten ton truck, In
decd. looking over Bcthcl'S outfit one
calls TO mind really and truly all
Southern agereEatiou--a lighting in
tclligcnt, sturdy aggregation. which
under the guidance OF so AN "Npc-
: give "A good account Of Itself in any
mans league.
Thorpe Regards I."cnls Highly.
Sitting In his room at a local hotel
all this. For tins sturdy warrior OF
many an cnSangutn"d battle. pulled
'ihoughtfuliy ~ his hair and allowed
-;s how the time iron. now until next
ing his fellows the hardest Kind Of
workouts. We're nt." he remarked.
hut we want this game aud we're
taking no chances. Frank Dobson"
ictic mentor II the University or
Eichmond. Were teammates q few
years agone on the Fayetteville team
in the old Carolina League Frank
30 some 10 trim this crowd here. /
know, I've watched en- That's
exactly what Frank said And I've
come 10 have \ very. great respect
for Franks judgment"
Continuing, Thorpe. who can he a
most interesting fellow when he gets
all twelve cylinders going, added.
we lost the last TWO games We
MAS a grand game. hut the breaks
happened against US. That was III. !
game in Sew York with the Buffalo |
Ail-Am"ricans. But the last one. the
'%ne PLAYED IN fhiladclphta with the
Union Athletic club. w. should HAY.
Wnn and tut for q sour decision OF
The referee wc would have won. and
that's - crying -orer-spillcd-m milk
story. either"
y, any rate. r.6rpa l.. here. lie
) anxious TO ..!'..ts.e game S;ttur
day III. IS going TO make his pro-
'cS"s work like thunder TO got that
Eaine, lie j. a grand fellow, with Il
rrand team, and is stan the holder
OF more records in NOR. different
branches OF sport than any man in
the word. And We're il not for the
Tact that Turner Bethel is going To
DO all That can toe don" "a thwart
the Indians ambition, there might be
q chance of making a prediction
Ntv'fl aes"sa come Saturday. Rich
lnond VIII don its collective chrysan-
thcihum, the girls and the fellows
VIII get III readiness. and il viii bc
IhanEsriying Day, some thirty days
transpiantcd.
Thorpe Will take his team to West,
hampton tins afternoon at ocloci.
Tor practice.