Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-21
|ONA SPORTS TALK
Corn State Leads Others in
Number OF Track Records
Broken.
Akron Organizes Game and Fish
C!ub..Recent Floods Improve
Fishing.
500 Gun Club Holds Shoot.
Big Cat Fish Caught at
Randolph.


Randolph.
Iowa, the corn state agricultIra
j Iowa, has again distanced her sister
states. Seven years ago when Johr. v
state university, outsprinted the entire
bunch in the 100-yard dash at Chica
go in the time of 8 4-5 seconds. l. was
announced that he had broken Il
worlds record. That was but the be-
ginning and in everything thac has
been worth while Iowa has climb / TO
the top of the ladder in athletics. In
the university athletics the Hawkeye
state has sent out other sprinters, 0.s-
lance men, weight men and jumpers,
who have brought back records for
their schools and the state they repre-
scented. Not being satisfied with sur
prising the country with her university
athletes Iowa sent a team of schpoi
boys TO the western interscholastic
/ field meet in Chicago recently, ana the
speedy lads from Grinneil spIlsled
thru the mud, smashed other reco: Is,
and won the meet by u larger NUMBER
OF points than almost any other two
schools were able TO capture.
This spring has been a notable one
for breaking records, and it has been
found necessary to very carefully re-
wise the table. When this was done
the world of athletes was astounded to
see the records held by the sons CT
Iowa, as the following, revised to date,
will SHOW:
loO-yard dash-Western intercollegi-
ate, :09 As. by John v Crum, Un!ver-
sity OF Iowa, 1895.
| 220yard dash-Western intercol,csi-
ate, 30, John V. Crum, University of
! Iowa, 1885.
Sso-yard run-Western interco'legi-
ate, SO 4-5, l.. r. Palmer, University
of Iowa, 1895.
Pole vault-Western intercollegiate,
II feet 61a inches, Chapman, Drake,
May 81. 1902
Running high jump-Western inter-
collegiate. feet, 1 inches, j. j. Louis,
University of Iowa, 1899.
Discus throw-western interco' esl-
late. us feet, inches, Swift, Iowa, May
81, 1902.
At a meeting of fishermen and those
infaRe sted in the preservation of iowa $
gSXAesand fish, held at Akron this week, /
d,iaaS We're formulated and an organi- !
sssasion perfected for the enforcemenacf
the state game laws as urged and rec
commended recently in this column. Its
territory will be confined largely to the
Big Sioux river The appointment OF
a deputy game warden, who will have
charge of the enforcement of the laws
in that vicinity, will be secured rhe
organization viii be known as the Ak
ron Game and Fish Club. Officers were
elected and the club is now ready to I
take up its work This is move in til.
right direction. for no matter now |,
much sportsmen may deplore the He
gal fishing that is going on in Iowa
waters, in union and in union alone, is |
there strength sufficient to put stop
to the warfare of determination wagec |
on the states game and fish by the |
poacher and market fisherman. All To-
calities should organize and put them |
selves in proper shape to combat the I
man who persits in destroying, 81. the .
sake of gain, Iowa's fish and game.
Owing to the recent heavy rains that
have swollen many of the rivers and |
streams of the state to overflow. fishing
since the open season began has been
anything but good. While this has
been q. source of regret to many of
Iowa's lovers of the rod and reel, still
il has been a most excellent thing. The
open season in this state begins at least
two weeks earlier than it should, for by
May Is many of the species of game
fish have not finished their spawning
This spring the floods have taken care of
this matter and owing to the high stage
of the water but few fish have been
caught, and they, regardless Of the abb
sence of fish ways, have been able to
speed up stream, to shallow creeks and
bayous, where they have deposited their
spawn undisturbed by the fisherman.
IS &
One Jesse P. Leith, according to the
Baltimore Sun, has invented a sure
the capture Of fish is a complicated and
clumsy affair and is intended to hook
the lazy fish which merely nibbles 1t
u VS'Siito iio iiiili oNtiilSiltso 'Nci llte olu
method for the capture of the desirable
fish, the fierce bitter. Generally speak
ing, the nibbler is a nuisance on the
line and a sort of good-for- nothing on +,
the table. He belongs, in fact. to the
sucker tribe. while the fierce bitter is
cautious rascal and would steer shy of
the dangerous looking scollop- soaring
device of Mr.. Leith. The man who
angles for sports sake has neither time
nor inclination to trifile with these So
called dead sure devices. There is con-
siderable difference between catching a
fish on II hook and entangling him in
trap. The sportsman despises the latter
and it cannot become popular
This new device Will doubtless become
a favorite with the market fisherman, ,
along with the seine and dynamite
The 500 Gun Club has just closed !
most successful meet over the traps. :
During the two days shoot 21,205 tar ,
gets were thrown. The entranc fees.
which were shot for, with the $500 I
added money, aggregated $2,259 Gill 8
bert, of Spirit Lake, was high gun with t
3SS out Of a possible 400: and Hughes.
of Palmyra, was second with 3S5. +
Hughes was granted first money, how Y
ever, as Gilbert is a professional I
Charley Budd was third with 373, and