Sport: Thorpe Out

Last week two items of news appeared which told sportsmen that one of the greatest athletes that ever lived has faded out of sport. The items told about Jim Thorpe, the Indian. One described how, after having failed, miserably, to get into condition, he was dropped by the New York Club with which he had been playing professional football. The second stated that he had married for solace a West Virginian named Freeda Kirkpatrick, had started west for his honeymoon. He is 39.

Fifteen years ago Thorpe was in his prime. In 1911 and 1912,...

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