Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-28
IOWA SPORTS TALK
This State Is the Home OF
Many Fast and Blooded
Horses.
The Recent High Water a Very
Good Thing for the
Fisherman.
Rowing in the West-Coursing
Meets Within the
State.

Drake of Centervile. The younger
Drake has for number of years main
tanned racing stables both in the
United States and abroad and follows
the game from pure love of the sport.
The derby is his first highly promi-
nent win in this country tho he made
several killings in England last year
where his good things started with
good prices about them. Drake knows
a horse, is a good judge of condition
and is always ready to place money
look good to him. His money went on
Wyeth last Saturday from II to i
down to to l to an amount calcu-
lated to make Drake highly unpopular
with the bookmalaers who had figured
his horse out of the running. An Iowa
man and Kentucky horse seems to
make an ideal combination.
Young Drake came honestly by his
predelestion for fast horses. There is
a coterie of horse idolators in that
semi southern little city who burn in
cense night and day at their favorite
altar. Strawberry 2.04A, the best and
biggest little horse ever brought to
Iowa, lives with his owner Doc"
Scott at that place. Lord Roseberry
2.091a makes his home at Centerville.
Doc" Sawyer has or did have a prom
Using bunch OF horses, and the Brad
leys breed good ones for the mere
pleasure of looking at them in the
pasture as they never race. In fac.
all over town Centervillians talk blood
lines speed records and drive or ride
the kind they talk about. 1t was in
this atmosphere that young Drake
learned to know and love horses and
cultivated the instincts which have
made him national reputation as
racing man and horse owner.
While the recent high stage of the
water in many of the streams of Iowa
has interfered with the fishing, in the
end it will be n good thing for the
fish as we'll as for the fisherman. The
flooding of the low lands gave the fish
an opportunity to find their way to
tributary streams and bayous where
they might spawn undisturbed. That
this is fact is proven by the enor-
nous amount of fish that have been
taken from creeks and bayous in Tama
county recently. AS soon as conditions
are right the angler will do well to be-
take himself to the deeper pools in
creeks and ponds for there the gamey
bass and the savage pickerel are likely
to be found. In case there should be
but little rainfall during the summer
months there will be danger of man!
of these land locked fish perishing.
Fish clubs thruout the state should
see to it that all ponds and bayous
that have been flooded this spring be
seined under the supervision of some
properly authorized person. and all
game fish and small fry be again placed
in living streams. If this is not done
many fish that might otherwise be
preserved will be lost.
In things athletic the west is fast
forging to the front. While her foot
ball teams are not yet in the class of
the big elevens of the east, she is fast
becoming a worthy foe. In track ath-
letics western teams are pushing the
best the east has produced for second
place. and in many events have cap
college Fights are becoming a thing of
terror to the big schools of the east.
The showing made by the rowers from
the University of Wisconsin recently
at Poughkeepsie shows how dangerous
a foe these sturdy sons of the west
have become. While the crew referred
to was not able to capture first place
she secured with ease second in both
OF the big events, the university and
freshmen races. She could hardly be
expected to win against the schools
with which she was pitted. Cornell won
both events, but was only able to do SO
after a close and exciting struggle. AS
the atmosphere of Yale Is pregnant
with foot ball talk and lore, in just
such a way is the air around Cornell
laden with tales of battles fought and
victories won by her sons on the Wa
ters of the Hudson. This all goes to
produce a race of oarsmen. AS COM
pared with many of the eastern schools,
rowing in the west is comparatively
new thing and too much can not be ex.
pected of western Fights In competition
with the men who represent the east.
But the western schools are fast forg-
ing to the front and the day is not so
far distant Dut tnaI we can ALREADY see
the east reddening with it's glow, when
the colors of the west will float in tri-
umph on the Prov of the fragile shell
manned by the Drawn mad muscle of
the new west.
Coursing meets are comparatively a
new thing in this state, and it has only
been in very recent years that anything
has been done in this line of sport
within the states boundaries. The
meets that have been held have all
been small affairs and have so far
failed to attract a great deal of notice.
This has been largely due to the fact
that this sport is new to this state. In
years past in many sections of the
state lack rabbits have been extremely
scarce and only of late has this species
of the rodent been sufficiently plentiful
10 furnish the sort desired. There is no
reason why this sport should not be-
come popular as the open country of
| Iowa presents an ideal field for the
| sport of coursing.
| The annual tournament of the Fort
| Dodge Gun Club held recently was
fairly we'll attended. Owing to the
| weather. which was rainy, the attend
ance was not as large as it otherwise
would have been. The program called