Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-30
CURRENT SPORTS TALK
Close of Foot Ball Season Finds
Championship Situation
Hard One.
Michigan Holds Better End OF
the Argument In the West.
Harvard In the East.
Surprise to Puss In the Defeat
OF Terrible Terry.
Sporting News.

SpOrllOS NEWS
The foot ball season is over The foot
ball player may now get his hair cut
and begin to think about the possible
glories and disappointments of next
season. The season has been one of con-
tinual surprises, and particularly is this
true of the west. Even now, when the
season is over, 1t can not be said that
there is any real champion of the west,
for there are two teams that, unless
they should meet in a post-seasan game,
which Is not at all likely, have equal
claims on the honor Michigan and Wis
consin have not been defeated this SEQ
son, but they have not met themselves,
and it is only matter of opinion as to
which might prove the victor. The gen
eral supposition would be that Michi-
gan's chances are better, and that the
Wolverines are the real champions of
the west, whether they play Wisconsin
or not Seldom has any foot ball team
anywhere, since foot ball has been
popular sport, shown such remarkable
strength. The season just closed has
been nothing short of phenomenal, and
since Sept. %. with record OF ten
games, the Michigan team has scored
sol points to its opponents o. In this
immense pile of scores there is one that
rivals the largest foot ball score ever
made against any team, 12S to Q, in the
game with Buffalo, on Oct. Is. In the
east the situation is not so complex.
Harvard reads her title clear to the
championship OF the east. and has since
her crushing defeat of Yale week ago.
Westerners would delight In seeing the
Michigan team and the Harvard men
meet in west vs. east contest, but that
is considered out of the question. The
east would have everything to lose.
while on the other side the west would
have everything to gain and nothing to
lose. Casper Whitney. the eastern crit
ic and an old foot ball man, who came
from New York to See the two Chicago
games on Thanksgiving day, and wilt
messed one half of each game, said that
he was surprised by the good work Of
Michigan and Wisconsin. which oom-
pared favorably with the the leading
teams OF the east.
Bruce Shorts. who has been playing
right tackle on the Michigan team this
year, and who is considered the best
ground gaining tackle in the west. was
elected captain for the season OF 1907
by the members Of the team at the con-
clusion Of their games with Iowa. on
Thanksgiving day. Shorts Is a student
In the law department OF the university.
All but four of this years team wlii~re-
turn to school next year which VIII give
the varsity good nucleus on which to
build up another invincible eleven.
Those who do not return are Captain
White, Wilson, Weeks and Snow.
In the Iowa field the season closes
with the State University of Iowa team
In the lead in the matter Of victories,
and Grinnell second. Drake or
Ames will probably be classed
as third place and Simpson
fourth. The plucky Iowa eleven. des-
pite Its Overwhelming defeat by the
Michigan team is contemplating hay-
ing an eleven next year thatwill be able
to hold it's own with all corners. Ten OF
this years team expect to return to
school next year. Altho the matter of
captain has not yet been decided Wat.
ers is regarded as the most probable
choice.
A great surprise in pugilistic circles
was the defeat, at Hartford, Conn, on
Thanksgiving day, of Terry McGovern,
the world, by William II. Rothwell, OF
r1a,. i1,
Young Corbett." 1t took but two
rounds to tell the tale, and that seemed
the most surprising feature OF the de-
feat of the Terrible Terry" However.
the $500 sporting men who witnessed
the mill expressed not the least COM
plant over the outcome, and there was
no ln.imation offered that the thing was
fixed" McGovern's undertaking his
antagonist, and his over-confidence In
himself and his powers. are thought to
have been largely responsible for his de-
feat. McGovern won his title to the
featherweight championship by his de-
feat of George Dixon, OF Boston. two
years ago, at New York. McGovern's
manager has already posted forfeit OF
50. 500 for another battle between the
bantums, for $4,000 purse.
Fred Gilbert, of Spirit Lake, and
member of the Marshalltown Gun Club,
is now holder Of the Republics cup, en-
blamatic OF the live bird championship
of the world. In his match with ]. A. F.
Elliott, of Kansas City; Frank Parma
lee, of Omaha, and Gus Burnside, OF
Knoxville, Tenn, all previous holders
of the cup. at the Dupont park, ST.
Louis, Gilbert killed forty-five out Of
forty-six birds
1t was announced yesterday. at Des
Moines that that city would have no
professional base ball team next year,
and that the franchise had been with
drawn from the Western League.
NEW BASE BALL LEAGUE.
American Association Of Base Ball
Clubs Is Perfected.
Chicago, Nov. 30.-The American Az
ISOLATION of Base Ball clubs with