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AMERICAN INDIAN“FLOP” i BOXINGBlanca, Colo., Dec. 28, (IMS)— Conceded by many .sports followers S to be the greatest natural born athlete in the world, the American* i •Indian has always been a colossal ! as a box-fighteiy accordingi to T. W. McNicl, veteran sportsman.“Glance down through the annals of sport and you’ll find the list I studded with names of red-skin.stars,” McNiel said. “That is, every sport but boxing.“There have been a few of them who gave the game a whirl. But so far there hasn’t been a first-rater. I can’t recall a second-rater, in fact, I won’t swear that there | has ever been a good third-rater.”* When it comes to other sports, though, the Indian has been outstanding, McNiel asserted. First on his list was Jim Thorpe, of immor-I tal football and Olympic fame, i “Chief” Bender of the old Ath-3 letics, Chief Myers, famous Giant backstop and the more recent Pepper Martin made baseball history. Other gridiron and diamond stars : who boasted Indian blood, arci; known to every follower of these sports.But boxing!Leo Gates, a full-blooded Mo-! hawk, McNiel declared, was the “best of a bad lot.” Others who failed dismally in the ring were Clay Turner, who fought Tommy Gibbons a couple of nodecision contests; “Chief” McLcquah of Kansas and “Tiny” Roebuck, who later turned to wrestling with consider-able success.“In the lighter classes.” McNiel said, “we find Santiago Zoriiia, a bantam who flourished a few years ago. He was a Central Indian of Jnea origin. However, he dropped from view as fast as he appeared. M “Pete Nebo is a present day Sc-1* i minoie campaigning in the light-} weight, class, whose chief claim to fame is that he stayed the limit a couple of times with Tony Canzon-en.“Yes, indeed, it's a strange thing why a race of people as sports-minded as the Indian is, can’t develop one or two first class boxers. What’s the reason? Your guess is• ias . good as mine.”
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Tyrone Daily Herald
Tyrone, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Dec 28, 1933
Page 5
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