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"An Indian fellow like you shouldn't ever drink."

The way McGraw said "Indian" irked Thorpe so he came back with "What about the Irish?"

McGraw boiled because he was sensitive about his own barroom escapades. "Don't get smart with me!"

"I'm not," Thorpe replied. "It just happens I'm Irish, too."

Having bested Mugsy in rhetoric, Jim found himself on the bench after hitting .600 for the first seven games of the season. "I'm giving Red Murray a chance in right field," McGraw explained. But when McGraw needed a pinch hitter for Murray, he summoned Old Jim, who strolled to the plate and took three quick cuts without looking. "You lousy blank blank Indian," McGraw yelled. "You'll never make a monkey out of me again. You're through with this club."

Jim was traded and McGraw persisted it was because Jim couldn't hit a curve. That fiction still exists, but his last season in the big leagues Jim hit .326. "I must have hit a couple of curves," Jim said then.

(Jim hit .358 over one stretch for Boston but came into disfavor with manager George Stallings because Jim and Rabbit Maranville, the eccentric Braves' shortstop, ate raw fish from a hotel fish pond. Baseball was a between-football-season exercise for Jim Thorpe just like track was a way to exercise for Old Jim. "I went into every event because it's no fun to stand around watch," the big Indian said many times.

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Indeed, Jim Thorpe was the greatest Athlete of Them All. You've read only a partial account of his exploits. He once went to Easton, Pa., with only the Carlisle track team manager to run against the Lafayette College track team all by himself. He won eight first places to literally beat Lafayette single-handedly.

His appearance in the major leagues of baseball proved how good he was. When it came to football, his end-zone to end-zone punts are the first thing brought up. But even Jim couldn't distinguish his greatest plays. "What was your longest run?" he was asked many times.

"I guess it was from one end of the field to the other," he would answer. The runs went with his 9.8 clockings in the 100 before tracks could be groomed for good times. He did 48 flat in the 440 and 24 feet in the long jump on his best days and the 220 in under 21 seconds. Gustav V was right when he made his statement on Jim's abilities

Jim scored 198 points in the 1911 college football season but never capitalized on his athletic fame. Alonzo Stagg said: "There may never be another Jim Thorpe." Connie Mack agreed.

Thorpe's final years were spent as a bouncer in a Los Angeles bar.

This has not been intended as a sob story, but a tribute to the wonders of Jim Thorpe. It has been a meager and brief highlight of his golden years.

If you want to sign the petition to have Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals and records restored, write to At Ease, and the Carlisle Jaycees will forward a petition to have the feats of the Greatest Athlete of Them All recognized.
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