Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-08
Drake-Cornell Football Game
Will Be a Hard Fought,
Battle
IOWA MEETS MICHIGAN TO-DAY
The First Week of the Open Season for
Quail Shows the Birds Are Not PIen-
tifuI-Where Are the Prairie Chick
ens?-snipe Shooting ExceIlent-The
Duck Flight.

There Is but one game OEsfealiy very
much interest being played on the stats
foot ball gridiron today. That is the
/ Drake Cornell match at Mt. Vernon
/ which is sure to effect to a certain ex-
tent the standing. among the Iowa
teams, of the winner. While the Iowa
City men meet Michigan at Ann Arbol
there is, of course, no doubt as to
| the outcome Iowa's team of this year
lis no match for the husky Michigan
men. Below is the schedule of games
played by Iowa teams today.
Iowa City VS.. Michigan at Ann Ar
Dor.
Drake vs.. Cornell at Mt. Vernon.
/ Coe VS.. Ames at Ames.
/
! The Drake eleven went to Mt. Vernon
| this morning, and will go against the
| Cornell team this afternoon. The
Drake men admit that they have fight
on their hands, which is certainly not
| far from the truth. If Drake wins
she will have to play the game of the
season. for the Mt. Vernon team comes
far from being an easy proposition.
But little is heard from the team at
Mt. Vernon, and they have doubtless
been saying nothing and saving wood
in anticipation of trimming the capital
guess work to even attempt to pick
the winner of this game, as the elevens
are very evenly matched. Cornell has,
however better than a fighting chance
of coming out on the long side of the
score.
Michigan men are making the claim
that the Hawkeyes will be trimmed to-
day at Ann Arbor by a score of at least
so to O. While every one will concede
that the Iowa team will be beaten, and
beaten bad, there are a lot Of Iowa
City men who have gone to Ann Arbor
with considerable money to bet on this
score proposition. 1t is more than.
likely that this estimate of the winners
is more nearly thirty points too large
than otherwise.
the Simpson team at Indianola Friday
by the score of il to 6. The only score
that Grinnell made was due to her
speed, and after that first touch in the
first six minutes of play the Grinnell
men We're never near enough to their
opponents goal line to score. The defeat
was expected, however, as Simpson has
had better team all season than Iowa
College The indications are that
Simpson promises to land pretty well
up among the leaders this season. and
she has well deserved to by the hard
consistent games she has played and
the victories she has won.
sss
Coe met Ames today the latter's
field. and while reports ..,e been sent
out that the Ames team comes far from
being in good condition for the game.
they should have no trouble to win. Coe
has not been playing winning game
this year, having been repeatedly
beaten.
AS was predicted in this column last
Saturday, the first weeks quail shoot
ing has proved far from satisfactory.
not nearly so plentiful as they We're
last year. They are also all being found
on the high ground, and so far most
that have been knocked down have been
flushed from the corntields. Cornfield
shooting when the corn is still standing,
and much of it very weedy, is difficult
task. Not few very small birds have
been found, some of them not over a
third grown. This shows that a second
or perhaps even third brood was
Matched by the mother birds very late
in the season. Quail shooting will be
better month from now than it is now.
When the corn has been picked and
cattle have been turned into the fields
of standing stalks it will make the
sport much easier and the birds less
difficult to find.
There has not been season in the
past ten years when the snipe shooting
was as good in central Iowa as it is
this fall. The excessive rains of the
summer have made the low ground, and
meadows, excellent feeding places for
these birds, and good bags of them have
been taken almost inside the city limits
of some of the Iowa towns. The birds
are all fat and show the effects of the
good feeding they have had all summer.
While several of the Iowa papers
have been publishing statements that
prairie chickens are plentiful, hunters
in various parts of the state do not bear
out their statement. In the northern
and northwestern tiers of counties Is
the chicken ground of the state. From
these localities reports that are known
to be authentic have been received, and
the condition Is reported as exactly the |
reverse. In Winnebago, Wright, Cerro |
Gordo, Kossuth and Pocahontas coun- |
ties a better part of the chicken crop |
was destroyed by the rains. The |
covies, what few there are, are all small, |
many containing not more than half a
dozen birds. II there are certain spots
where these birds are plentiful, the
dailies that have been publishing these
reports will confer a favor upon sports
men by naming the places where chick
ems can be found in numbers worth |
while.
While the duck shooting has been