Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-27
IOWA SPORTS Talk
Iowa College Meets State Nor.
NAL on the Gridiron at Cedar
Falls Today
THE DRAKE. GRINNELL GAME
The Prospects for Fall Duck Shooting
Were Never Better-FootbaIl Out
look at Highland Park and Des
Moines coIleses-Iowa Golphers At.
ter Championship at Omaha.

Moines coileges-Iowa Goiphers AZ
ter Championship at Omaha.
This afternoon, for the first time
since 1899, Grinnell meets the State
Normal on the gridiron at Cedar Falls.
The game in 1899 was the first ever
played by the two schools and resulted
too. 1t is matter of mere guess work
to attempt to foretell the outcome of
this contest, as neither team has played
what might be called a match game this
season. 1t is true Grinnell met the
alumni Of the college last Saturday, but
was unable to score against them. This,
however, is by no means such a dishon-
or, as there are among the alumni Of
Grinnell College some of the best foot
ball players who have ever donned a
Jacket in the state. There is no denying
it that Grinnelrs prospects are by no
means fiattering, and her followers
need not be surprised if her eleven goes
down to defeat before the Normalites.
But If Cedar Falls wins she will not
only have to overcome the best eleven
that has SO far developed this year at
Grinnell, but she will have to beat down
the never-give-up doggedness that has
made the wearers of the scarlet and
black known all over the west. Their
capacity for pulling victory from under
defeat has added many victory for
Grinnell elevens. But in the State Nor
NAL team this year is both Drawn and
muscle, and if Grinnell wins she will
have to play all the time from the
sound of the first whistle to the last
down. This game is the only game Of
any note to be played in the state to-.
school teams will have practice games
on.
Drake is straining every nerve to get.
in the best shape possible to meet their
old enemies from Grinnell on Oct. 4. II
the talk be true that is emanating from
the Des Moines school Grinnell must
look to herself if she does not receive
the trimming of her life. Attic fun
bling has been conspicuous in the prac-
tfce of Drake this week, she has the
material for the making of an excellent
eleven. Grinnell's strength can be bet
ter judged for the contest with Drake
after her showing at Cedar Falls today.
Prospects were never brighter IN the
history of foot ball at Highland Park
College than they are at the present
time. Altho but few of last years men
are in the school this year, yet the ma
terial which is in training promises to
make the best team in the history of the
college. The eleven will be heavy one,
and while many of the men are new to
the school most of them have had ex-
perience in the game elsewhere. The
first game of the season will be with
Des Moines College at Des Mofnes this
afternoon. While the Baptist eleven
Will be handicapped in weight, they
have the advantage in the number Of
men. But in the early
games of the season weight properly
handled should win. Fer this reason
Highland Park should beat the team
from the Des Moines College.
The prospects for fall duck shooting
in the state were never better than theyi
are now. Altho as yet but few of the
teal have arrived, many good bags have
been gathered from the lowlands,
sloughs and marshy places turnout the
northern counties. Many of the water
fowls breed in the northern tiers of
and early hunters have had
excellent sport among the young teal
and stray mallards that make northern
Iowa their summer home. The ducks
killed so far have not been found, as is
the usual custom at this time of the
year, in the larger bodies of water, but
have been knocked down in the flooded
stubbles and low ground that furnish
such excellent feeding ground. With
the first cold blow from the north the
duck hunter will do we'll to take to the
flooded farm lands rather than to the
lakes and large ponds for his game, for
in the former spots the teal and
widgeon are sure to be found feeding on
the fallen grain from the unharvested,
wind blown stalks.
Des Moines golf players are after the
Trans Mississippi golf championship
now being contested for at Omaha. Out
of thirty-two men who qualified yes
terday, six of them We're from Des
NIoines. In the professional match
O'Neil and Watson, both of Des
Moines are entered ana stand an ex-
oellent show of winning. The finals i'll
the amateur championship will be
played today.
Living along the Cedar river are a |
bunch of sportsmen who believe in pre-
serving the game fish of that stream. A
ecent movement has been started, UNI
der the supervision Of game warden, |!
to seine the ponds and bayous lying in |
the vicinity of the river. This is being
cone to remove from them the small |
game fish that have been spawned
therein during the high water of the
summer. The gentlemen who have the
matter in charge believe that the sein-
Ing of these places, and the placing in |
the river of the game fish caught, will
be equivalent to several carloads of fish
from the hatchery. Other localities
might adopt this method of restocking
the streams of their vicinity and thus
fish that will be frozen in the |
shadows of small bodies Of water as
soon as winter sets In.
"BIG THREE" TO VISIT CITY.