Editing Jim Thorpe (section)

===All-Around champion===
After his victories at the Olympic Games in Sweden, on September 2, 1912, Thorpe returned to Celtic Park, the home of the [[Irish American Athletic Club]], in [[Queens]], New York (where he had qualified four months earlier for the Olympic Games), to compete in the [[Amateur Athletic Union]]'s All-Around Championship. Competing against [[Bruno Brodd]] of the Irish American Athletic Club and [[John L. Bredemus]] of [[Princeton University]], he won seven of the ten events contested and came in second in the remaining three. With a total point score of 7,476&nbsp;points, Thorpe broke the previous record of 7,385&nbsp;points set in 1909 (also at Celtic Park), by [[Martin Sheridan]], the champion athlete of the Irish American Athletic Club.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 3, 1912 |title=Indian Thorpe is Best Athlete&nbsp;– Olympic Champion Wins All-Around Championship and Breaks Record |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/09/03/archives/indian-thorpe-is-best-athlete-olympic-champion-wins-allaround.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=July 15, 2022 |work=The New York Times |page=9}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=August 29, 1912 |title=Hopes to Set New Record |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/albert-lea-evening-tribune-aug-29-1912-p-6/ |access-date=September 14, 2018 |website=Albert Lea Evening Tribune |page=6}}</ref> Sheridan, a five-time Olympic gold medalist, was present to watch his record broken. He approached Thorpe after the event and shook his hand saying, "Jim, my boy, you're a great man. I never expect to look upon a finer athlete." He told a reporter from ''[[New York World]]'', "Thorpe is the greatest athlete that ever lived. He has me beaten fifty ways. Even when I was in my prime, I could not do what he did today."{{Sfn|Wheeler|1979|p=118}}