Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-14
IOWA SPORTS TALK
intercollegiate Base Ball Cham
pionship Will Be Settled
By Arbitration.
Fishways Being Placed in Dams
SEEMING Going on Good
Thing.
Floods Turnout the State Will
Doubtless Do Damage to
Game Birds.

Game Birds.
/ The intercollegiate base ball cham
| rionship promises to end in as endless 3
tangle this year as it Gid last. Iowa
City WILL without doubt. contest it, be-
fore it will allow Iowa college the sill
Yer bat. The post game between
Grinnell and Ames, played in Des
Moines Wednesday, which resulted il
. victory for Iowa college gives that
team one more game than Iowa city has
won. AS the championship goes to the
team winning the largest number OF
games, to the observer on the outside
it looks very much as tho Iowa college
was entitled to the championship. II
is owing to the fact that so far as Iowa
college is concerned this game with
Ames was post-season one. But with
Iowa College only, as the Agricultural
college was still in session and Iowa
college will claim, and justly, that this
was not a post-season game. 1t is
on this point mainly that the decision
Alnes, Iowa City and Grinnell had each
won two games, this having been the
second game with the Agricultural coll
lege that Iowa college had played. Ow-
ing to this fact the University will
without doubt ask that an arbitration
committee be appointed to decide
whether or not this game shall stand
as one of the series.
1t is to be regretted that the outcome
is in doubt and must be decided by a
committe, for regardless of the decision
of this body. it will be highly unsatis-
factory to the colleges and their SYM
pathizers that the championship was
not won by contests on the diamond.
The placing of fishways in the dams
along the Cedar river is a move in the
right direction towards the preserva-
ton of the fish in that stream. Deputy
game wardens thruout the state should
seen to 1T that these ways are placed in
all dams on all streams not now so sup
piled. Without them it is next to an
impossibility for the fish to run up
stream in the spring to the creeks and
bayous to spawn. 1t is largely thru in
difference to the law that mill -owners
have not given this matter the proper
attention, and every person interested
in the preservation of our fish should
make 1t personal matter with them
selves and use every effort toward the
end that all dams may be thus supplied.
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Another good move that will be of
benefit to the fishermen in years to
come, is the one being made at Water
loo. whereby permits have been issued
by the state fish commissioner allow
ing parties TO seine the lakes and rivers
of the state for the purpose of remov-
ing all fish other than game fish, such
as suckers, red-horse and German carp
These fish are worthless so far as sport
is concerned and are not highly es-
teemed as food. The removing of these
fish will further the increase among the
game fish, for it is we'll known fact
that the German carp destroys more
spawn and small fry than any other
enc cause, and the sooner Iowa's
streams are rid of these gluttons Just
that much sooner will the game fish in
crease. The carp is among fish as the
log is among quadrupeds. feeding on
all kinds of decayed animal and vege-
table matter. His flesh is coarse and
rank, not fit for food. If the different
fish clubs turnout the state would take
this matter UP and have all streams
and bayous seined in their vicinity and
all fish other than game removed and
destroyed 1t would indeed be good
thing, and one which every fisherman
who has the interest of Iowa's fish at
heart would approve. This SEEMING,
however, should be done under the SUI
pervision of deputy game warden or
some authorized person. to prevent
game fish from being retained by those
and to see that all small game
fish are placed in some living stream.
The recent heavy rains and floods
nave brought death to thousands of
loWa's game birds. Coming as it has
in the midst of the nesting season of
the prairie chickens and quail it has
Destroyed many nests containing eggs
or young birds, and Iowa sportsmen
reed not be surprised if in certain por-
tons of the state this fall these birds
are very scarce. This will be a matter
Of regret to all lovers Of the dog and
gun, after having such excellent sport
with these birds last fall when they
were SO plentiful. Last year quail We're
more numerous in this state than for |
years, but the damage already done is |
beyond repair, and much need not be |
of the bob white this season.
Various gun clubs turnout the state
have made final arrangements for their |
shoots and several are announced for
The next few weeks. The amateur I
shooting tournament at Okoboji will be I
reid Aug. 26 to 90 and will be under
he management of Charles Budd and |
Z. c. Hinshaw. The New London gun
clubs midsummer shoot will be held |
June 16, and the annual tournament Of |
he FIT. Dodge gun club is announced |
.or that city on June 10 and 20.
The Iowa Field Trials annual meet is
set for Aug. 10 at Emmetsburg and as
great many of the dogs which run I
n these trials will also run in the South
Dakota trials the meet for that state
ollows on Aug. 10 at Salem.