Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-29
CURRENT SPORTS Talk
Comment on Iowa Events OF In
terest to the Sporting
World.
The Rockwell City Trouble..-Des
Moines College to Encourage
Foot Ball.
Iowa Entries for Grand American
Handicap...Reynolds Willing
to Meet Sellers.

county, Deputy Game Warden S. %.
Quimby, T. B. Morse and John Davis,
all Des Moines sportsmen, created some
little stir over the state The arrests
were made for violation of the laws re-
garding Sabbath neutrality-suspicious.
for discharging firearms on Sunday
The sudden upturn of affairs near
Rockwell City, where the sportsmen all
appear to be anxious to observe the
Sabbath. would lead one on the outside
to surmise that there was something
back of the trouble aside from the mers
love of quietude on the Sabbath days.
The offense, Sunday shooting, Is prac-
tically a dead letter in Iowa, and If all
the sportsmen of the state who shot on
Sunday were to be fined 1T would keep
the peace officers pretty busy. Rock
we'll City is small town six miles from
Twin Lakes, in Calhoun county. The
lakes, in years gone by, We're favorite
duck resorts and even now afford
good shooting at times For some time
several prominent Des Moines sports
men have been negotiating to get con-
troll of the hotel at the lakes, in order
that they might occupy it during the
seasons and enjoy themselves
when not actively engaged in shooting.
These same sportsmen have naturally
been interested in protecting the game
in closed seasons, and for the past two
summers have hired the lakes pa
trolled during the month of August, to
prevent pot hunters from Rockwell City
and the surrounding country from
out of season the young
ducks which have been Matched and
raised there during the breeding sea-
son. The patrolling worked success
fully and hardly a gun has been fired
about the waters of the lakes until
Sept. /, the beginning of the fall open
season. The result has probably been
that the fellows who are now prosecut-
ing the Des Moines men are only play
ing even because their unlawful shoot
ing has been disturbed.
Des Moines College, one OF the small
but thorough schools of the state, and
the principal Baptist institution of
learning in Iowa, is going to pay more
ever has before, and already has Sc
cured .the services of Roy Fiske. of
Grinnell, to coach the 1902 eleven. Des
Moines College is like several other of
the states smaller schools, it has never
had the right kind of encouragement in
athletics. Its foot ball teams, altho
and hard working, have
been unable to accomplish much, and
have not attained a standard enabling
them to keep pace with the fast COM
pany of the larger schools. The lack of
encoura cement has been largely re-
sponsible for this. Des Moines College
had it's first good foot ball eleven in
1893, and at that time was unable to
make quite respectable showing with
other colleges of the same class. Old
I'D. M. c." men will remember distinct
ly how, in 1893, at the little town of
Monroe, in Jasper county, the foot ball
team met it's hated rival, the Central
of Iowa, the Pella Baptist
school, and wiped the ground with the
Hollanders to the tune of AZ to 4. That
was late in the season, too late, In fact,
for the interest to keep up among the
student body and to do much good the,
following year when the time came for
the organization of a team. The adj
of the school has been
against foot ball, deeming 1T detrimen-
tai to school work in general, and con-
o.ucive to barbarism. With the Bap-
fist school under a new management it
now appears as II little college spirit
was going to be shown next season, and
that the yellow and black is not to be
trailed in the dust every time game
Is played.
The announcement in the news col
rmns yesterday that the athletic rela-
tons between the state university and
Iowa College had been severed, meets
with some surprise on the part of old
college men who have watched the two
schools in their contests in years gone
by. Yet, on the other hand, some are
not surprised, for S. U. I. has been on
the verge of kicking over the traces
many times before The state univer-
sity athletic management practically
tells Grinnell that she is not in the
class any more, and that
hereafter the wearers of the scarlet
and black need not form any plans
looking toward the maintenance of in
relationship. Grinnell is
still in good standing with Minnesota,
and other of the leading foot ball
teams of the middle west, and will
probably be able to fill all of it's open
dates when the next foot bali season
rolls around.
Iowa is to be we'll represented in the
Grand American handicap, which will
De held in Kansas City next week. The
Iowa marksmen are entered
'or the events: c. B. Adams Rockwell
City: E. Ady, West Liberty; Henry A.
Arp, Davenport; F. Arno, Glenwood;
Ben II. Black, Nichols; o. C. Bottger,
Ollie; j. w. Boyd, Sioux City; C. w.
3udd, Des Moines; John Burmeister,
Spirit Lake; c. E. Cook, New London;
j. T. Crisman, Ottumwa; F. S. Crabill,
Atlantic; w. f. Duncan, Sioux City
R. L. Dove, Centerville; H. c. Dorton,
Tonda c. E. Foster. Centerville; Fred
Hilbert. Spirit Lake; Thomas Grier, Os-
laloosa; j. F. German, Glendale; ]. w.
fray, Sioux City; c. "A. Hoover, Oska-
oosa; H. H. Hawman, Sioux City; Sam
Hoffman. Jr.. Atlantic; Edgar Hafer,
Council Bluffs; George Herr, West Lib
,rty; G. E. Hughes. Fonda r. L. King,
0es Moines; Russell Klein, Spirit
lake.. Hy j. Kaep, Dubuque; w. p.
lessler, Des Moines; e. A. Leach,
,iouy Citv. T Lane Marsha1ltown.