The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-23
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What Happens To Grid Heroes When They
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by the opposing school. The un@ fortunate safety man. because of the importance of the contest, be- came one of the goats of gridiron history. Long after the incident was forgotten by all but q very few, 1t lived with him; friends say he never ceased to brood over it.. Last June he went to a hotel room and put that game of twenty-seven years ago forever from hls mind. He shot himself.
 "The greatest natural athlete in the history of sport was. fittingly. child of the forests, an Ameri- can Indian. The annals of the sports he took part in are rich with cheerful anecdotes about Jim Thorpe. The coming of the olym- pic games recalled the deeds of Thorpe. Interviews found him liv- ing quietly in Los Angeles, doing movie bits, odd jobs, even swing ing a pick and shovel--any method of earning an honest dollar to sup. port his wife and two children.
 "In contrast to the odyssey of this Indian Ulysses, the tale of Frank Summers is a poetic idyl. He was Thofpe's running mate and bIocker--if Jim ever waited for a blocker--on those Carlisle teams As Q golf caddy on Wisconsin grounds which were once the trib- al lands of the Oneida Indians, he roams the same hills and valleys where he fshed and hunted as q youth.
 "They turn up in odd places in the headlines after college. When Father Hubbard, the '0lac- fer Priest penetrated new regions of Alaska last summer, his com- panion was Red Chisholm of Santa Calar. Jim Thorpe sat in Charley Curtis box and saw an- other football player. Jim Bausch of Kansas. win the decathIon. Ray Barbuti of Syracuse was the only American to win a race on the flat at Amsterdam. John Law captain of one of Notre Dame's uns defeated teams, is in politics. and Bert Metzger, the watch-charn guard who captured the imagina- ton of the country two years ago, has been driving a Chicago milk wagon as the first step in learning Clark of Chicago Is ping-ponR champion of all these Unitod States. Ed Garbisch of W. and J. and Army. married Walter Chrysler's daughter. :. Jess Hibbs of Southern California. is a son. in-law of Edward F. Doheny. .. Eddie Dooley Dartmouth IS a New York sports writer. and still tough enough to rout four subway row. dies who were deceived by his rosy cheeks. And when Mrs Lorna Trafford Owen invites her daddy to dinner, there are seven- teen major HIS at the table; for her father Bernard W. Traford. now a Boston banker. had been the first (and one of three) Harvard men to receive eight major letters until George owen came along and bettered the mark with nine and won the fair damsel. The Four Horsemen? All are combining coaching with private business: each Is married and has family started, and is marching through life just as effective and sanely as he did through opponents. keeping his feet on the ground and his eyes on the goal. They have re- tained unity--and when Don Miller. the last of the quartet was married in romantic setting at a girls school, Jim Crowley. Harry Stuhldreher and Elmer Layden were temporarily absolved from family duties to make interference for the bashful bridegroom"