Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-22
CURRENT SPORTS Talk
Comment on Iowa Sports-Hawk-
eye Sportsmen Proud OF
Marksmen.
Gilbert High Gun in Grand Cen
trail Handicap Shoot-Ames
Athletics.
Why We Don't Get Ducks in Cen
trail Iowa-State Base Ball
Gossip.

middle western states, are always con-
fident of one thing, and that is the
of their marksmen who rep
resent the state at the leading meets OF
the country. 1t is seldom that iowa
marksmen are not in the money IN
these big events, and it is not surprls-
ing to know that Fred Gilbert is high
gun at the annual Grand Central Han
Gicap of the Limited Gun Club, held at
this week Charley Budd
has also been up with the best of them,
and so has Tom Marshall, and he is
next thing to an Iowan, living as he
does across the river from West Keiths-
burg. Gilbert, who is a member of the
Marshalltown Gun Club, has been in
his usual good form at indianapolis,
and on the opeing day stood high gun
with 141 out of a possible $50 In fifteen
target events. On the second day he
gave another remarkable exhibition of
making a kill of seven
ty-five straight, and in closing stood
with only two misses out of possible
165-eleven fifteen-bird races having
been shot. Budd and Marshall were
both UP in first and second monies In
nearly all of the events. The Iowa
bunch has busy few weeks ahead OF
it. From the Grand Central Handicap
meeting, which closed yesterday after
noon, the men go to Chicago, where
next week they will participate in the
Watson live bird tournament at Burn
side Crossing On the 10Th they will
leave for Kansas City to attend the
Grand American Handicap to be held
the first week in April.
r. H. Hall, who is to captain the st.
Joe base ball team this year. and who
will act as coach this spring to the
Iowa State College base ball club, ar
rived at Ames this week. There are
about thirty candidates for the various
positions on the team, and in short
time the size of the squad will be son1e-.
what reduced, and the first and second
teams organized. The position behind
the bat seems to be the most coveted.
Captain Hollis caught all the games
last year. and his play is always steady
and consistent. James Minert. of Wau-
kon, a man of considerable experience.
is also after the place. There is a great
deal more pitching material than there
was last year. Besides Reese, who
pitched practically all of last years
games, there is "Yank' Brown of Prai-
RE City, and Martin, a new man at the
game but ore who is showing up Well.
Brown has good control and exception
al speed, and is rather above the av-
erage as latter. Old men who have
filed positions on the bases or in the
field before are Evan, first base; Mitts,
second base; Whistler. third base; Bar
ret and Williams, field positions. Nc
Donald, who has played two years on
a Texas college team, is after second
base. and Teller and Deshler of last
years foot ball team are trying for field
positions.
The outlook for a track team at
Ames is somewhat brighter than it has
been for the past two years, but as
much of the material is new. it is diff
cult to tell how much it will develop.
There Is quite a loss from last years
team. Lamb, who won both hurdles at
the state meet, has graduated. Tommy
Gidley the giant discus thrower, is not
in school this term. Other losses are
James and Kicker, two of the relay
team. Harry B. Mcclure of Dallas
Center is track captain. Peck, the 101
will again be seen in the
sprints. Some of the other old men who
are working on different events are:
in the shot, Scholty in the
hammer, Smith and Hunt in the pole
vault, Lyle in the hurdles and the
broad jump, Tenner in the 440, and
run. Some of the new material should
be point winners. Harley Cave from
Correctionville throws the discus over
the 100 foot mark, besides being good
performer in the 440 and half. White,
also of Correctionville, will work on the
hop-step and the broad, as well as the
sprints. Dresse, a half mile from the
Carroll high school, will also try for the
mile Jorgenson, Scott, Williams. Mat
tison and Filler are working with the
weights, and q couple of new men in
the sprints are Jacobs and Howe
Tonight. at Omaha, Frank Gotch of
Humboldt and Frank Coleman, of Kan
sas City, will engage in a wrestling
bout which from the conditions of the
match, promises to be the fiercest
match of the kind seen in Omaha for
a long time. Gotch is to throw Cole
man twice in an hour to lose. The man
who has undertaken this task is heavi-
er than his opponent, and stronger, but
is no foxier, and he has certainly lined
out job of work that ought to make
him hustle. Coleman weighs about ITO
pounds and is bunch of sinew all the
way. He recently earned an enviable
reputation by throwing several lights
of the mat, and then by making Far
mer' Burns work almost an hour to
throw him twice Twenty nine minutes
was what one of these falls cost the
Farmer" in hard work.
TIE past week has tecn good one
for duck hunters, that is, the hunting
has been good enough. In the matter
of reward, however, for the time and
labor spent under the guise of sport
there has been nothing in it for the
majority ofsportsmen, and the percent
age of birds to a hunters bag, in this
locality, is probably half duck, In