Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-25

Newly Organized Team SurprisedIIts
Friends-Good Individual
Work.
Good team work and Drawn against
fine individual playing and swiftness
were the elements that characterized
the foot ball game on the Finkle Park
gridiron Friday afternoon. in which
Bangor was triumphed over by Mar
tshalltown. Strange to say, the latter
element conquered and Marshailtown
won the game by the same score--11 to
6-recorded at the close of the first
half. as reported in these columns,
neither side being able to score in the
last half, although at one time victory
the very jaws of defeat, and when the
coveted pigskin was within one yard OF
the goal.
Not intimating in any way that Mar
shalltown had no license to win the
game, yet even her most ardent adj
mirers hardly dared to think it posi-
Bile she would. Bangor seemed to have
so many advantages in weight. team
work and practice that the managers
of the local eleven thought the team
would be playing a good game If ii
held its opponents down to a low score.
Persons who witnessed the Eldora
game a week ago between that city's
team and the Bangor eleven--won by
Eldora by the close score of 6 to o.
considered that Marshalltcwn's chances
with the husky farmers of Bangor
would be rather slim. Just why the Wis
| itors failed to win is problem. They
played good foot ball from the time the
ball was kicked off until time was
called on the last half. Their team work
was superior in every way, their PUSHES
were low and hard, yet, on defensive
work the line seemed to be weak. The
| home team contains some excellent foot
| ball material. Three members of the
team-Capt. Lou Rice, Full Back Ben
Whitehill and Center Rush Ben Pack
! ard, were members of the famous
| Forty ninth Iowa eleven, which de-
| feated every team it played in the south
Hast winter. The teams signals We're
practically the same used at that time.
| Whitehil played furious game, and
4 whenever he got the ball gain went
| with It, Rice's playing was excellent,
las was also Packards. Dingwell and
/ Beebe played star games and We're good
| for gains whenever played. The first
touchdown made by Beebe, was scored
4 after the first five and one-half minutes
of play and Packard kicked goal. The
/ second was made by Rice, after a
pretty thirty-five yard run around the
fright end. To kick the goal from the
point opposite where the touchdown
was made would have been almost a
miracle, but Packard barely missed
getting 1t over the corner of the goal
4 post. The only touchdown Bangor
made was by Capt. Capt. Hoilings-
worth. on criss cross play, from which
/ goal was kicked, making the score,
with nine minutes left to play, II to
4 6 in Marshalltowns favor
4 The features of the game We're Rice's
thirty-five yard run for touchdown;
a blocked punt by St Clair followed by
j a twenty-five yard run around the left;
a thirty-yard run around the right end
4 by Jones, Packard's excellent punt
blocking and the tackling of Beebe
Jones, Rice, Reynolds, Richeson and
Eckles. Some fine work was done by
Richeson in making openings in the
line through which the backs We're en-
abled to pass.
For the visiting eleven Capt. Hol-
lingsworth, Winery and G. Dillon
played the game and had they had
better interference would have beer
able to have made many more gains
Sargent, of State Center, who was sub
stituted for Moss at the left guard, also
played a good game. The incest work
, of the entire afternoon was the superb
; holding of the visitors when they
lacked but enc yard of making touch
down, which would at least have tief
the score and possibly beaten the HON.
, team.
The game was certainly the bes-
, played in this city for years, and thu
best ever put up by a Marshaltowr
eleven. Considering the amount o
practice the eleven has had its show
,, ing was marvellous. The game was /;
gentlemanly one throughout, devoid o
any pretense of smuggling and with bu
very little rag chewing. Reynolds wa
the only man injured so that it wa
considered best to retire him. Thi
was in the last half. nearing to TIL
close, when he received scrimmag
injury in the side. Wilson, formerl.
quarter on the high school team, wa
substituted.
Mayor F. G.. Pierce acted as refere
7 of the first half and umpired the sec
, ond. while Mr.. Max o. Conger of FL
? dora. officiated as umpire of the frs
and refereed the second. The linesme
: were Messrs l.. Trimble, of Bangor
and Frank Fenner. of this city. Will
the timekeepers We're Messrs. C. H.
Boardman and l.. A. Hanson, the latte
of Bangor.
A telephone message from Bango
this morning asked for a return game
to be played at that place next Friday
2 The boys would like to accommodate
them, but as the eleven has a gam
with Eldora Thursday 1t will be i'm
possible.
e NARROW ESCAPE FROM INJURY
Mrs. G. F. Kirby Slightly Bruised 4
nRunawnv Accident.
Mrs. George F. Kirby had a yer
narrow escape from serious injury in
runaway shortly before noon toda
when returning home from making