ATHLETICS.
James Thorpe, the American-Indian athlete, has forfeited the trophies he won at the Olympic Games in Sweden last' year by acknowledging that he played baseball as .a professional in 1900 and 1910. He must therefore surrender the Pentathlon trophy presented by the King of Sweden and the Decathlon Cup presented by the Czar, both of which he won. In awarding the prizes at the time, the King of Sweden described Thorpe as the greatest athlete in the world, Thorpe made his confession to Mr. James E. Sullivan, of the Amateur Athletic Union. Writing from the Indian School at Carlisle,' Pennsylvania, he refers to "playing baseball for pay" away from home in the holidays with college students who were regarded as amateurs at home, and who played under false names while he used his own name.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 275, 12 April 1913, Page 8
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136ATHLETICS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 275, 12 April 1913, Page 8
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