Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09
ION A SPORTS IALk
Cedar Rapids Running Races
Why Meetings Of the Gallop-
ers Should Pay.
The Iowa Field Trials to be Held
August 10 at Emmets.
burg.
Professionalism in Collese
Games-New Auto Record
Drake Wins Cut.
The running races that closed in

The running races that closed in &C.
/ dar Rapids yesterday are good sample
lof what can be done in the Way of hold
ing a meeting of the gallopcrs. While
4 this meeting was by no means ire
mendous success it was enough so TO
prove that With the proper backing and
be pulled off in a highly crediable man
ner Cedar Rapids is only a fair rae
!, ing town. in fact there are but very few
cities and towns in Iowa that are what
might be called bang up" racing
| points. There should be held more rae
| ing meets of this nature. for TO lot of
people the running race is the only
race. The follower of the course. as a
usual thing prefers the bang tails to
the harness horses, and he goes to the
races to see heats and hot finishes that
Will bring him TO his feet as the horses
straighten out into the stretch. This
he gets in the average running race.
For as a general thing the finishes of
the gallopers are closer and more ex-
citing than are the harness events.
The crowd always hangs on for the
last race of The harness meet, when it
happens to be a dash. There is some
thing about the runners that is more
fascinating. 1t is picturesque, AMI APP
peals to the lover of quick action in
neck and neck finishes to the Wire. Not
only the man who goes against the
bookies.' but also the spectator. wants
money. All these things go to show
that a meeting of nothing but gallopers
properly managed and backed. can
come Ito the good" in the average city
turnout the state. There is no reason
whatever why running meets. lasting
two or three days, With say five or six
events each day, should not meet the
approval of the public and prove a
winner to the promoters.
The fifth annual meet of the Iowa
Fields Trials Association is TO be held
AZ Emmetsburg commencing August
10. The entries for these trials exceed
those of any previous year and it will
require several days to complete the
events. There are 1o5 entries in ALL
The derby has forty English settlers and
fifteen pointers. and the all age stake
has thirty English settlers. one Gordon
and nineteen pointers. Sportsmen and
the lovers of good dogs are greatly in
terested in the trials and the outcome
Will be watched with interest thiuout
the st,fte. Iowa is the home OF many
al
Field Trials Association is largely to
be credited with keeping alive the in
terest that has been manifested. not
only in the coming trials. but in dog
and kennel doings thruout the state.
Charges of professionalism and COM
peting in unsanctioned games have
been made against Well known atl-
letes of the University of Illinois and
Lake Forest. Charges are pending
against several other we'll known coll
leges. Judging from the number of
collie athletes who are this summer
play = ball turnout this state on sal
aries. it is not unlikely that charges
will be preferred against several should
they again attempt to enter athletics
in the various colleges of which they
are members. Many young men who
have no other occupation during the
summer months seem to prefer this
method of earning a little money dur
ing their vacation. The writer can call
TO mind no less than half Il dozen col
le2e bail players who are now on the
pay roll of various bail teams scattered
thru Iowa. But as a matter of
fact the school or college where pro-
tessionalism is unknown is the eXcep-
ton. for there is scarcely football,
track or base ball team of any college
OF note in Iowa that has not among
its members some few who money, in
one form or another, has procured. Out
side of the managers of the teams this
is not generally known, but, neverthe-
less, it remains a fact.
Iowa Falls sporting men and lovers
OF base ball have arranged to hold :,
base ball tournament in the near future
that promises to be Il bowling success.
Some six or eight teams have been Sc
cured and the games will last thru
three or four days. That city has the
right spirit to successfully promote
such an event when it is known that a
party of young men, in Il canvass of
few hours among its business men,
raised $500 to further the enterprise
A mile in 81 As seconds is the auto
mobile record recently made by w. *. |
on the straightaway course
near Ablis, France. This is little bet
ter than second faster than amy pre-
vious record, and exceeds by far the
time made by the fastest passenger
trains, being at the rate of 69la miles
per hour. 1t is six seconds faster than
the record made by Murphy on wheel
paced by locomotive
The good" on the races held recently in
Chicago, and while he is reported to
have lost in the neighborhood of $780,
200 on the Saratoga races the latter
part of the week, he nevertheless back
I'd his horse Nincennes at the Haw-
thorne races at odds of ~ TO 1 and
made tremendous killing"
Thomas A. Marshall, MAYOR of
twice winner of the
grand American handicap, and prob
,bly the best known trap shooter in |
he country has realized his ambition |
n the world of politics. He was re- |
Gently nominated for congress by the
party in the fifteenth dis
-rict of Illinois.
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