Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-20
Prospects Good for Excellent
Football Team at Iowa Falls
This Fall
MANY CANDIDATES FOR TEAM
Opening Of the Fall Fishing Far From
Satisfactory ~ North Dakota the
Coming Field for Chicken and Duck
shootins-The PAGER, Betty Walker,
Money Winner.

Many Of the lovers Of foot ball IN the
state have their eyes fixed on the bunch
or twenty-five men who are camped on
the banks Of the Iowa river near Iowa
City and who are being put thru the
preliminary practice that goes to make
the sturdy warrior of the gridiron. Hard
practice is being INDUCED in and the
prospects are that the Iowa team Will
carry to many victories the old gold OF
the school and state they represent
The writer paid visit to the training
quarters and in talking over the pros
poets with the trainer he said: Iowa.
said Coach Knipe, during resting
spell" at Camp Butler, will have the
strongest eleven representing her on
the gridiron that has crossed Athletic
Park since she lost her champion
team" DR.. Knipe estimates that the or
ganization will be at least so per cent
stronger this year, at the beginning OF
the season, than it was last year at the
corresponding time. He basis his
predictions on the fact that the unfit
cation of the eleven, a most important
factor In Iowa's past successes, will be
far more possible and likely this season
than in 1901. This is true because the
old men are coming back largely. The
SQUAD now working hard at the pretty
resort on the banks of the Iowa river
includes most Of the first team of last
year. With eight of the old regulars
and seven old high-grade subs" the
management has reason to believe that
the team work will be feature of
HaWkeye playing the coming fall and
winter.
Manager McClain said today: BEE
sides this seasonade material. which
will mean that Iowa's old-time team
work is 'cinch' for another season,
we are getting in daily some new men
who will make Their mark on the grid
iron. This new material, while green
in a sense, is really somewhat seasoned.
for a number of the newcomers have
played foot ball-good foot ball, too
on strong elevens in high schools and
minor colleges
DR.. knipe is devoting much time to
the hardening of all the men, so they
may be in shape for the opening game
of the season, on Oct. 4. Cross country
runs. signal practice, daily dips in the
nearby Iowa, and running down punts
are features of the schedule. The nov
city of the work is given by ping pong
practice. DIR. Knipe believes that the
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trainer of the eye, mind and nerve.
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Captain Hollenbeck, a former star of
Beloft, is also well pleased with the
showing of the twenty-five men now in
practice. He looks for good things from
the eleven, and says the state cham
pionship is assured to Iowa, and that
the big teams outside the state will
have to hurry if they capture their
games with the Hawlseye team. The
two great battles of the year, accord
ing to Manager McClain, will be the
Michigan and Minnesota games. Said
the manager: I'VE will win the game
with the Gophers sure If they do not
play better ball than they played
against us last season, when we We're
crippled and disheartened by Clyde
Williams disbarment. AS for Michi-
gan, even those stars will have to play
every minute of the game, for our team
will not be the combination of cripples
and green substitutes that met the Ann
Arbor bunch at Chicago, and met such
!. horrible Waterloo Thanksgiving day
in 1901
The Iowa schedule is as follows: i
To the fellow who loves to fish, the
opening of the fall season has been far
from satisfactory. 1t had been hoped,
by thost who We're watching the con-
tinued rise and fall of the various
streams, that had been repeatedly over.
flowed during the summer that when
the water became lower in the fall fish
ing should be excellent. In many local.
tiles this has not proved true. and the
strings brought home by fishermen who
have been; angling recently have been
far from satisfactory. Along the Iowa
the sport has been good at Union. At
Steamboat Rock and Eagle City it has
been decidedly Indifferent. In the Des
Moines in the vicinity of Eft. Dodge fish
are taking the bait readily, and large
strings have been caught. Good catches
have also been made on the Boone riv-
er, near Webster City. Along the Cedar
in Mitchell county and as far north as
Lyle, Mimi, the sport has only been
fair There is no good reason for this
condition, unless it is that there has
been so much food washed into the
streams by the high water that the
fish have plenty and will not readily
take the bait offered them.
Judging from reports that have come
in by sportsmen who have recently
made trips to North Dakota, that
country will soon become the mecca for
the lover of chicken and duck shooting.
The lakes and prairies in the northern
portions of that state are fairly tenn
ing with fowls of both kind, that offer
no end of good sport for the fellow who
is willing to make the trip and pay the
price incidental to the sport. 1t is but
the matter of a few years until there
will be but few localities in Iowa where
the hunting of either chickens or wa
terfowls will be worth while. When this
time arrives longing eyes will be turn
ed to the thinly settled country of
North Dakota, where these varieties of
game are abundant, and the man who
has already been there will have the
advantage of knowing the ground with
out the necessity of a trial trip or two
to find q desirable spot to pitch his
tent.
There probably has not been a het.