Walter Lingo, Jim Thorpe, and the Oorang Indians by Chris Willis

Author:Chris Willis [Willis, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2017-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

Lone Wolf Gets Arrested

It was an impressive win for Lingo and Thorpe—even more impressive considering what had happened just a few hours before. After arriving at the hotel in Indy, several players went out on the town to have a few drinks. One player, Lone Wolf, seemed to have had just a few too many. On the front page of the Monday edition of the Indianapolis Star, under the headline, “Indian Football Player Tackles Mule, Then Police,” the paper tells the story.

One of Jim Thorpe’s full-blooded Indian football players, after a session with “pale-face” mule, went on the war path single-handed and alone late Saturday night and reposed in the city prison yesterday while his companions played the Belmont team at Washington Park.

The dusky son of the prairies told the police his name was Moses Ward, [24] years old. He was charged with drunkenness and resisting an officer.

Ward, and two other players, was in a taxi at East and New York Street when the driver attempted to collect their fare. Ward, it is said, kicked all of the glass out of the machine. When his companions remonstrated with him he struck one in the mouth and the other in the nose. The two went to police headquarters to have one go and stop his war dance.

Motor policemen Pfaffenbarger and Hague were sent. Neither of them ever was a football star, nor did they live in the days of Indian fighting, but they soon learned something about both. Ward tackled, and it took the combined efforts of the policemen with the free use of their clubs to get Ward in the police automobile.

Then it required considerable strategy to keep him there. When Ward and the two breathless policemen arrived at police headquarters, the prisoner was still in pretty good trim and started all over again. He had Hague thrown backward over a table, and there was no telling what the result might have been had not Pfaffenbarger delivered a “knockout” punch with his club. Ward went down. He was carried to the cell house but soon revived and declared he was the only “full-blood American in the building.” He was unable to provide bond.25

Lone Wolf’s out-of-control antics got him a night in jail. He did not play in the game against the Belmonts. The following day, according to the Indianapolis Star, he appeared in court.

Moses Ward, whose Indian name is “Lone Wolf,” a member of Jim Thorpe’s full-blooded Indian football team, who was to have played at Washington Park Sunday, but could not because of drunkenness and resisting an officer, was found guilty of the chargers in city court yesterday by Ralph E. Upkide, special judge, and fined $1 and costs. Judgement was withheld.

Ward boarded a train for La Rue, O., the training camp of Thorpe’s football team, immediately after his case was completed. Ward said that he had not taken a drink for six years until Saturday night and that the present day “firewater” was entirely too hot for him. He declared he was through with strong drink for all time to come.

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