Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-24
IOWA SPORTS 1lLk
Comment on Sports in General.
OF Interest to Iowa
Readers.
Rain and Heavy Tracks Cause
Postponement OF Field
Meets.
State Meet to Be Held Wednes'
day-Track Union Monday
Other Notes.


Iowa yesterday, the rain of the tore
noon and previous evening, causing
heavy tracks and necessitating the
postponement of the two big events
scheduled for Des Moines and Cedaf
Kapids The annual field meet of the
Iowa intercollegiate Athletic Assocla-
ton, which was to have been heiu III
/ Des Moines yesterday afternoon, VIII
not be pulled off until Wednesday, ana
,he Iowa intercollegiate Track Union
meet. at Cedar Rapids, has been set lof
Monday. The necessity of postponins
the meets will be expensive, and cause
more or less inconvenience. and While
each might have been carried out IL Is
better for all concerned that they We're
POSTPONED. The enthusiasm, however,
will be dampened and every man VINO
! was out on the tracks yesterday
| dressed for the events, will be before
the starters on the new dates agreed
upon.
For the state meet there is the great
est number of athletes ever entered for
3 similar affair, the lists showing a
triie over 200 students entered for the
seventeen events. Eight colleges VIII
Observation-Disclosures, Iowa, Iowa State,
/ Cornell. Iowa State Normal, Des
Moines. State University of Iowa ana
/ simpson. The events. in the order OF
! their progression, are as follows: one
Ia
Mound shot put half mile bicycle, 10
| yard dash, half-mile run, running broad
/ Jump, sixteen-p pound hammer throw,
| 120-yard hurdle, running high jump
/ 4i0-yard dash, discus throw, ~
yard hurdle, mile run, hop, step ana
| lump, one mile bike and haif-mile relay
race 1t Is expected that, under the
| proper conditions some of the state
| records will be broken and 1T IS IN the
/ hopes that conditions may be better for
record smashing that the meet is post
| poned. The present state RECORDS IN
1.-The different events, holders dates and
/ places of making are as follows; Fifty
/ ward dash. :05 LIS, j. II. Rush Grin
InelD, Des Moines, May %, 1897; six
| teen pound shot, IS feet 10 inches, Hol-
| brook Is. u. -, Des Moines, May Is.
1897; running broad jump, % feet a
| inch. c. b. Hamilton (GrinnelD. Des
Moines. May %, 1898; 100yard dash,
| 90 As, Rush (GrinnelD, May IS. 1897;
half-nile bike, :o5 4-5, Henry Storm
| (GrinnelD, Des Moines, May %, 1897;
| half-mile rum. 200 3-5 j. p. Clyde
| (GrinneD, May "a, 1895: 220-yard
dash, ri 4-5, Rush (GrinnelD, May rs,
| 1897, running high jump, 6 feet, Lewis
| Is. U. L., Des Moines, May 26, 1899;
sixteen pound hammer throw. lie feet
:, inches, Johnson Drake), Des Moines
| May 26, 1899; mile walk, 7:06. Sanford
Ringler (GrinnelD, Des Moines, May
| 26, 1899; 120-yard hurdles, :16 rs. c. E.
Fisher (GrinnelD, Des Moines. May 20,
| 1900. pole vault, 10 feet inches, L..
Chapman (Drake) and c. r. Engelke
/ (GrinnelD. Des Moines, May 25. 1900;
44O-yard dash, 80, r. l.. Whitley
| (GrinnelD. Iowa City, June /. 1894;
running hop. step and jump, As feet J.
| inch, II. Holland Orake), Des Moines,
May 2S, 1898; mile run. 4:S9 35, Will
son IS. u IL, Des Moines, May 26. 1892
/ Two mile bike, 5:021s, Wilson Q.S. N. 81,
Des Moines. May IS. 1887; 220-yard
hurdles. 90 lilo. c. E. Fisher (Grin-
nelD, Des Moines, May 2S. 1897 discus
throw, 1O4 feet 5 inches, c. Smith
tDrake). Des Moines, May %. 1900;
half-mile relay, 1856 S. U. L., Des
Moines. May 25, 1900
It is generally conceded that Drake
will win the meet this year, with Grin
rell second and probably Ames third.
| 6 t. l. will make q strong play for
1 "
Of Chicago, will act as referee and
starter; Carl Rothfuss, ST. Paul. assist
ant; w. r. Lane, r. Orwig. j. Greene
and c. D. Slinker, judges of finish:
Raymond Windsor, William Brecht,
James Hunt, w. Bender, Carl Kastberg,
Z. F.. Huttenlocker and William Muzen-
meier, field judges.
In the Iowa intercollegiate Track
Union meet. to be held at Cedar Rapids,
Penn College, Oskaloosa is picked as a
probable winner, with Coe, of Cedar
Rapids. second. Six of the minor coll
leges of the state which either did not
Iqualify for the state meet or else have
70 hopes of winning in certain events
| in the state meet and as a consequence.
| did not enter, are to participate. The
schools interested are Penn, Coe, West
ern. Des Mones, Lenox and Upper
| Iowa University
Marshalltown people will have the
/ opportunity of seeing one of the best
/ games of college base ball of the sea-
son next Wednesday, when Coe Col
lege, of Cedar Rapids. crosses bats with
the Iowa State College, of Ames, on the
local diamond The prospects are that
the game will be a battle royal from
start to finish. Ames is burning to Sc
secure revenge for previous defeat of
4 TO 1, on May 10, and Coe is not one
whit less eager to maintain her un-
/ broken record of victories. Goes splen-
did team has met with teams of seven
Iowa colleges thus far and seven Iowa
| colleges have tasted the bitterness of
defeat at her hands. The state univer
| sity went down s to 81 Cornell's flags
dropped to the tune of to L Western
went home lamenting on to 3: L. u.
was shut out to 0; State Normal was
vanquished to 3: Simpson could do no
| better than secure one run while Coe
was chaking down six, and Ames
/ tasted defeat to the score of to /.
| While Ames has also suffered defeat
at the hands of Grinnell, still the farm
ers have fine team and will put up a
game of ball that is a first class article
| in every respect. Two of the best
pitchers in Iowa College base ball will
be pitted against each other. Yessler.
of Coe, has pitched seven games and
| Ill how baa -,