Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-12
CURRENT SPORTS Talk
Comment OF Sports of Interest
to Iowa Readers..Cedar Falls
Quail Case.
Alterations OF New Game Laws
To Rid Streams OF Objection.
able Fish.
The Neutrality-suspicious. Bowl
ing Contest...Gossip OF the
Fans.

The news of the acquittal OF Harry
Fields. the Iowa State Normal School
student who, last winter, was arrested
and tried i'm Justice court for shooting
quail out of season, will undoubtedly
arouse considerable indignation among
the snortsmen of the state, and 1t Will
also cause some surprise, as the case
against Fields was supposed to be a
strong one and one that would In its
final outcome, have good moral eff
feet upon pot-hunters Fields was
nlaced under arrest Jan. %, twenty-five
DAYS after the expiration of the open
season on quail. He was at first tried
In Justice Hildebrands court, CEDAR
Falls. and the evidence against him
was of so convicting a nature that ne
admitted killing the birds, but In de-
tense of the act set up the plea that ne
was a taXidermist and was engaged In
securing specimens for the natural
history department of the state normal
school A question arose then as to
what size shot Fields had used in kill
ing the birds, and he stated he had used
rs. AS it is a well-known fact that
taxidermists use the smallest shot that
will kill the game wanted, and no. III S
are plenty large enough for quail, the
taxidermy story wasn't so very strong.
However, Fields was found guilty In
Justice Hildehrand's court upon SIX diff
ferent counts and fined $3.50 and costs.
He took an appeal to the district court
and Judge Blair's decision results in his
acquittal and he will not have to pay
the fine even tho the supreme court
should reverse the decision. The mat
ter will be carried to the supreme court
at once, as 1T is point of vital interest.
Should this decision hold good every
pot hunter in the state who violates the
game laws can become taxidermist.
Even tho Fields killed the birds for the
normal school collection, which state
ment in itself is very gauzy, as he could
have mounted some of the quails that
he killed during December it should
have no weight as no state institution
is entitled to privileges that can not be
accorded to individuals. If it is legal to
kill game birds at any time of the year
for scientific purposes every unscrupu-
lous person who SO desires can go out
with gun and shoot prairie hen or
quail from her nest or While rearing
the young brood, bring the bird home,
skin 1t, eat the meat, stuff the skin and
laugh at the law. 1t is claimed that it
is we'll known fact that Fields is a
hunter, that he comes from a family
the male members of which have spent
much of their time in killing game and
those who are best informed are at
loss to understand why he did not
mount some of the quail that he killed
in December instead of shooting them
during the close season. He was asked
this question by the prosecuting attor-
ney and replied that the skins We're too
tender and plunage unsatisfactory.
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People who will eat carp ought not to
starve for want of a fish diet this sum-
mer. The new and revised game laws
concerning fish enables the state warden
to issue permits for the taking of GER
tain fish from public waters. The act
recodifying the game laws of the state
increases the power of the state fish
and game laws materially. 1t makes
dynamiting a felony. 1t also provides
severe penalties for placing ashes,
drugs of airy kind or powder of any
kind in the waters of the state. 1t also
prohibits the use of electricity in any
way to kill fish. The fine for violation
of this provision is not less than $50 nor
more than $780, or imprisonment in the
county Jail. 1t gives the warden power
to take buffalo, carp, quill backs, red
horse, suckers and gar from the waters
of the state to protect the game fish. 1t
adds cat fish to the list of game
fish. 1t adds to the list of game
birds rail, plover, sand pipers and
marsh or beach birds, also sets back
the open season on squirrels from June
to September 1. 1t also prohibits the
taking of fish within 800 feet of any
fishway.
The eyes of the Iowa bowling world
will be turned toward Cedar Rapids
next week, where on Wednesday Mar
shalltown and Boone are to meet in a
seven game series. Efforts have been
in progress for several weeks between
the arrangements of the two teams to
arrange a meeting place satisfactory
to both. The plans We're completed
few days ago, the money is up and
Cedar Rapids bowlers will have AN
opportunity to witness seven first class
contests on the alleys. Marshalltown
isn't saying what it is going to do,
and is making no brags at ALL Chi
cago ridiculed the idea of the "Boone
town" bowlers beating anything and
then Anson's team was wiped off the
map by the men who now claim the
championship of the state. Marshall
town will go to Cedar Rapids with the
idea of doing It's best against big odds.
and If the team wins there will be
plenty of time to talk about 1t after
wards. There are not many teams in
the state that have wanted to wager
money with Boone on the outcome of
any contest, but Marshalltown feels
that she Is willing to lose a couple of
hundred just to compare the relative
merits of the two aggregations.
The Central Iowa Fair and Racing
Circuit was organized for 1902 this
week at a meeting held at Grinnell
participated in by the secretaries of the
various towns interested. Oskaloosa,
Malcolm, Tama, Newton, New Sharon
and Grinnell were represented. The
events arranged for constitute
free-for-all pace, 2:25 trot, 2:2O pace
q Is trot and two running races. The