Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-01
SPORTS Talk
Two Important Football Games
That are Being Played in
the State Today
CHAMPIONSHIP STILL IN DOUBT

Schedule Of the More Important Game
Being Played - The Quail Season
Il Opened This Morning-The Sixteel
J Proper Gun-Fishing Season Closes
The Farmers Rights.
4 With but little more than a month
& in which to play the state foot bal
4 championship is far from being decided
i Two games of Importance, that will
4 have much to do with establishing thu
relative standing of the teams contest
4 ing, will be played today. These game:
are the Arnes-Iowa game at Iowa Citl
and the Drake Simpson game seized
Euled for Des Moines. Iowa City is de-
spondent, but hopes to win, while Arne'
is confident-some think too confiden
l-of certain victory. Drake shoule
beat Simpson, but the victory is by M
means certain one. A schedule of the
more important games being played to.
Gay by Iowa teams is given below:
| Ames VS.. Iowa at Iowa City.
| Drake VS.. Simpson at Des Moines.
Grinnell VS.. Minnesota at Minneapo-
| lis.
Coe VS.. I. S. N. S. at Cedar Rapids.
The overwhelming defeat of the
Hawkeyes by Minnesota last Saturday
has had a most demoralzing effect on
the team. Iowa, while not confident OF
that game, was reasonably sure that Ii
they did not win they would at least let
the Gophers understand that they had
been in a foot ball game. So far as
Minnesota was concerned the contest
was but little more than practice
game, and it was hard for Iowa to real
iZe that, while Ames was only defeated
by the Minnesota team by score of 16
to O., they should go down by just double
that score. 1t must be considered, how
ever, that the Ames game was played a
month ago, and during the past few
weeks the Gophers have made most
rapid strides toward something like
perfection in team work. Iowa has
been using every effort this week to get
themselves together for the contest
with Ames today. The team has been
crippled by the game of last Saturday,
and the better part of the first few days
of the week was devoted to little else
than signal practice.
That the Agriculturists will make a
aft 10 frif, he
Of the old gold goes without saying.
In the winning of this game, so far as
Ames is concerned, lies their hope for
a respectable standing among the Iowa
teams. The blot put upon their record
last Saturday by Cornell can not how
ever, be wiped out, but they can do
much to redeem themselves by WIN
ming from Iowa City. The practice
at Ames has been of the hardest kind
for the past week, and both coach
and men have used every effort to get
the eleven in the best possible condi
ton. Ames has everything to gain,
and but little to lose. Iowa has every
thing to lose and but little to gain,
other than establishing themselves
champions of Iowa in case they win.
To the impartial one who views the
prospects of the game from a little
distance it appears as tho Ames has
better than fighting chance to win.
The championship in the state prom
ises to end in a tangle if present in
dieations are not misguiding. Suppos-
ing Ames defeates Iowa City. In that
case Iowa City is entirely out of the
running, for Ames was defeated by
Cornell, and Cornell in turn was beaten
two weeks ago by the Iowa State Nor
NAL School. While the victory of Cor
nell over Ames, and the Normalites
over Cornell were of the same nature,
the inability to kick goals when badly
needed, they nevertheless constitute the
final score and victory. The score is
hardly the surest way Of judging the
relative merits of teams, however.
Ames has, without doubt, better team
than Cornell, and that eleven in turn
has far superior team than the one
from Cedar Falls. The games today
will do much to either straighten out,
or still further entangle the web of
claims for the championship.
Drake today takes on the Methodists
from Indianola at Des Moines. Drake
has played good ball this year. and
her team has been a credit to the
school. The Simpson eleven is by no
means a poor one and this game prom
Uses to be a close contest. The Des
Moines school should win If she is not
overconfident but the beefy Methodists
are fit and will give them a run for
the money.
Coe and the State Normal met today
at Cedar Rapids. Goes chances Of
coming to the good are decidedly slim
when it is taken into consideration
that Cornell bested them by score
OF II to and then lost to the Normal
ties by IL to II.
Today the open season for quail be-
gan, and Sunday there will be gem
eral exodus of hunters to hedge, stub
BILE and corn field. The prospects are
not good, however, and if reports prove
not incorrect, the shooting promises
to be only fair, and nothing when COM
pared with the excellent sport of last
fall The rain of the early summer
is responsible, and the effect will be
more noticeable in the localities where
there is but little timber than else
where The bob white" prefers to
build his nest and rear his young under
the shelter of some thicket in the edge