He put a sixteen-pound shot over forty-three feet, and a fifty-six pound weight in the neighborhood of twenty-eight feet, and made a pole-vault of over twelve feet.

He ran a half-mile and a mile at great speed.
When the Olympian Games were held in Sweden, and all the champion athletes of the world took part, it was the ambition of each to win one event, or even to run one-two-three in it.

There were five events in the Pentathlon and ten in the Decathlon.

_Jim Thorpe won them all_.
He won the all-round championship of America a couple of times, a feat paled by those he accomplished in the Olympian Games.

He is the greatest football player that ever lived, and one of the greatest Major League baseball players, drawing a large salary from one of the clubs, and playing yet.