Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-23
Big Foot Ball Teams Laying Off
for the Annual Thanksgiving
Day Games.
The Yale.Harvard Contest the
big One" Of the Country To.
day..The Other Games.
Plans OF the "Three.l" League
for Next Season..Same Cities
Get Franchises.

ceding Thanksgiving foot ball does not
flourish quite SO extensively. Especially
| is this true in this western country,
where the seasons are brought practical
| ~ to close with one grand finale on the
| day when our Pilgrim fathers thought it
decidedly wicked to do anything else but
| worship. There Is no Iowa game of any
prominence, S. U. !. being in reserve for
it's big game with Michigan at Chicago
on Thanksgiving day. Grinneli also Is
| resting for the struggle with Drake at
Des Moines on Thursday. Ames has a
game with Cornell, but is saving her
| main strength for the onslaught with
| the sturdy Methodists of Simpson at In
dlanola next week. This leaves Iowa en-
thusiasts for the day at least practically
| free to center all their interests on out
side games, as they may best see At. OF
course the one big event of the country
| today is the annual Yale-Harvard game.
1t Is always the one big foot ball event
Of the world, for that matter, this strug-
gle between the crimson and the blue. A
few weeks ago Yales chances We're not
considered very f1attering, even by her
most sanguine admirers, but the case is
different now. and it appears that the
sens OF Old Ell should win the annual
contest Yale seems to have faculty
o. picking up wonderfully fast, and
when the chances appear the most dubi-
Gus for good eleven then is just when
you want to look out and watch them.
AS far as the relative merits of the two
teams are concerned, in figuring the
games won from similar teams, Harvard
is in the lead, but nevertheless Yale is
the favorite in the betting. and money
usually talks" In the west the Beloit-
Michigan game, at Ann Arbor. should
attract the most attention Michigan,
earlier in the season. probably consid-
cred that Beloit wouldn't amount to
much, and that she could meet the Con-
gregationalists on Saturday and then do
up Iowa on Thanksgiving day. This she
may do, and likely will do, but Beloit
has been playing fine ball and may fool
the wolverines At any rate the game
today may have some influence on the
Thanksgiving game with Iowa. Chicago
is laying up for its game with Wisconsin
or Thanksgiving, and Wisconsin is doing
Likewise. Illinois is resting for the
Minnesota game and in the east Pensyl
vania is idle today because of the annual
game with Cornell on Thanksgiving. In
addition to the Michigan-Beloit game
about the only other one of Importance
is the Minnesota Northwestern struggle
at Chicago, which should result in favor
of the Gophers.
With the big teams practically sus-
pending business for the day the field is
practically left alone to the high schools
ard second college elevens. The second
team of Grinnell plays the Iowa scrubs
at Iowa City; the West Des Moines high
school meets the Dubuque high school
at Dubuque, and the East Des Moines
high school plays the Red Oak high
school at Des Moines.
The tie OF IL to II, resulting from a
game between the Still Osteopaths and
Des Moines College few weeks ago,
was played off yesterday at Des Moines
victory claims the second place in the
city championship.
The games Of the country today are as
follows:
Northwestern VS.. Minnesota, at Mar
shall field.
Michigan VS.. Beloit, at Ann Arbor
Indiana VS.. Ohio, at Columbus.
Knox vs. Eureka, at Eureka.
Kansas VS.. Texas, at Lawrence.
Notre Dame VS.. P. and S., at Notre
Dame.
Oberlin VS.. Western Reserve, at ober-
lin.
De Paw VS.. Rose Polytechnic. at Ter
re Haute.
Harvard va Yale, at Cambridge.
Cornell VS.. Vermont, at Ithaca.
Dartmouth VS.. Brown, at Providence.
Ames VS.. Cornell, at Ames.
S. u l. Scrubs VS.. Grinnell Scrubs, at
Iowa City.
Representatives of the various clubs
in the Illinois, Iowa. Indiana base ball
league held their meeting at the Palmer
House in Chicago Thursday perfecting
plans for next season. After several
ballots it was decided to keep the circuit
the same as for the past year, giving
franchises to Terre Haute Decatur
l3lOGInnSl OIl, ftOChluIu, TUCK lSldIlu,
Davenport, Cedar Rapids and Evans
VILE. President c. p. Powers, Of the
Western Association, was IN Chicago in
the interest of his organization trying
to get the towns of Evansville and Terre
Haute into his league, but the cities in
question voted to remain in their pres
ent company. Owing to the business In
terests of G. w. Sexton, the present ex-
ecutive of the "Thee-I' organization, the
permanent election Of his successor was
left until the spring meeting. Col. G. W.
Bement of Evansville, was elected vice
president, and at the next meeting of the
league in January President Sexton will
probably be reelected if he can be pre-
vailed upon to continue to serve as
president During the earlier session the
league delegates passed strong resolu-
tons pledging cordial support to the Ma
tional Association of Professional Base
Ball Leagues, which was organized in
Chicago last September. tribute was
also paid TO p. T. Powers, president of
the association of the minor leaguers
and of the eastern league. Another reso-
LUTON was passed prohibiting farming
or the loaning of players among the va
rious clubs, and the salary limit was
placed the same as last year--$750 per-
month, exclusive OF managers.
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