Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-20
Northern Iowa Towns Making
Plans For Fast Baseball
Teams For Next Season
DUBUQUE GETS FRANCHISE
Drake Deserves Place in State College
Base Ball Leasue-lowa City Up
Against It-Target Shoots for Holt
days-oId Cup Defender sold-lowa
Boy to Coach Princeton.

There is bunch of towns in north
western Iowa in which the male resi-
dent who is not base ball crank or an
enthusiastic 'fan" is g. dead one" In
these pIaces-Webster City, Algona,
Fort Dodge and Mason City-one season
has but little more than ended until the
preparation for another are COM
menced. There is not only a certain
amount of base ball fanaticism in this,
but q lot of good common sense. By
this method the towns referred to have
been able during the past season to get
together mines that have played faster
ball in several instances than those be-
longing to the western leagues. AL
ready plans are being made for next
season and the prospects were never
brighter for good teams in all four
places. Mason City has secured Cole,
who was with Webster City last year as
manager, and he will secure an all
professional nine, instead of using coll
Probably the fastest bunch in the lot
will be the Algona team and the en-
tire nine has already been secured.
They are Johnson, catch; Robinson,
first; Richardson, second; Tony, short;
Talbert, third: Barton, left field; Moore,
center field; Jones, right field; Foster,
George Johnson, Horn, Bert Jones and
Means, pitchers. Fort Dodge will also
put in the field a strong team. Several
players are already under partial con-
tract, so that the calibre of the nine
can be judged. Webster City intends to
be close up with the others, and is lay
ing plans for securing the men who
will represent their city on the diamond
during the coming summer.
After an effort extending thru sew
eral weeks, during which time Dubuque
has been knocking loudly at the door
of the Three-I league, she has last by
sheer force broken in. The people of the
state will hope she may be instrumental
in placing an Iowa team at the head of
the list when the season closes next fall.
Drake wants to belong to the Iowa
State College Base Ball League. but
her petition handed in at the meeting
recently held failed to receive attention.
Action was postponed until the meet
ing to be held in Iowa City on Jan. 16.
There is no real good reason why Drake
should not be allowed a place among
the other Iowa teams, as she has in
seasons past put up as good an article
. tl,N. tl,pf I'm
long. From a broad view the Des
Moines school is worthy and entitled
to consideration by the league.
The Athletic Union of the Iowa State
closed a most disastrous
season financially, being $4,000 to the
bad All departments of athletics have
failed to make good from a money
excepting a few games of
football played in other cities. This be-
ing the case, something is radically
wrong, when it is remembered the inn
mense sums that have been placed in
the treasures of the various other big
schools to the credit of the athletic as
sociations. Had there been a little
school spirit, and all-pull- together in
lereSC lHSlllleQ III lile S1udSiit 'oHs'
there is but little reason to doubt the
result would have been otherwise.
A manager will not necessarily make
/ teams season a profitable one, but
to make a. go it must be backed
by every student of the institution
who delegates himself an advertising
md working committee of one to help
along the eventsE planned. Without
his one centered interest the best man
ager in the country may fall short OF
What is expected Of him. Concentrated
effort alone will win. Iowa City should
.ry it as an experiment, and the gate
receipts of the coming season will tell
i different story than they now do.
Target shooting is now engaging the
attention of the lovers of traps and
Blue Rocks and several events for
he holiday season have been arranged. |
one will be held at Colfax, and an
,ther will be shot off at Ames on De-
,ember 80. The latter is given under
he auspices of DR.. c. M. Proctor, holder
# the championship cup for Story |
There will be sixteen events.
All that is of the best comes from t
owa, for that reason Arthur Hide |
,rand, an Iowa boy has been secured I
O coach the Princeton foot ball team /
lext fall.
The old cup defender the Puritan.
which defeated the English Genesta
n 1885, was sold this week. Altho /
originally a sloop the Puritan is now
schooner and will be used by the
purchaser, c. H. w. Foster of Boston,
elf. and the Columbia, the Puritan is
he most famous of the cup defenders.
she was never enrolled in the New
FORK Yacht Club, being built, owned
nd sailed by syndicate of the East
IN Yacht Club of Marblehead.
Speaking of cup defenders brings to
nind the cost of the one now being
uilt which is s275,000. This is
port in which few other than million
Tres can afford to dabble.
Both young Corbett and Terry Nc
,overn will train at Cincinnati for
heir coming battle in Detroit during
he authorities do not again inter-
ere This go has been arranged for
wo previous occasions, but was de-
Jared off on account of threatened
Interference from the police.
kidnap an Old Man.