Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
10 VA SPORTS TALK
The Chicken Season Opens
Next Tuesday. With Pros
poets For Poor Sport
THE QUAIL ARE PLENTIFUL
and Disadvantages of the
Recent Change in Football Rules
Race Meetings for Early September
Iowa Horse Makes Killing in the
Grand circut-other Sports Gossip.

Next Tuesday the chicken season
opens, but to the sportsman who has
investigated the prospects but little is
expected. so far as Iowa is concerned.
Recent reports from various sections
so TO further substantiate the predic-
ton made in this column month
ago that there would be but little
chicken shooting done In Iowa this fall.
There are not chickens. at least not in
any considerable quantity as there were
two years ago. In few favored places
coveys have been spotted. but the
early man on the ground will get what
little sport there is to be had with
these. Authentic reports say that in
the stretch of country between Rock
Well and Mason City there are n few
birds, and in other places scattered
lunches have been seen. Taking the
state as whole the season has been
a poor one for raising the young birds,
and added TO the disasters of the year
before the crop is decidedly small To
the hunter who has the money and time
to make a trip into South Dakota the
sport will repay him for the expense
and trouble. The hunt can scarcely
be made under week with any salts
faction, and there are many who feel
they can neither spare the time or af-
ford the cost.
In partial compensation for the lack
of chickens II may be some consolation
to the hunters to know, that the crop
of Bob Whites in central Iowa prom
ises to be better than of the average
year. This may appear strange when
it is understood that the quail and
chickens are birds of similar nesting
habits. The quail are here, however.
and the early open season should bringI
good sport. Along many of the hedges
and patches of timber the quail have
managed, despite the wet weather, tol
successfully bring out their broods.
and trip to almost any of these places
will show that the young chicks arc
fully feathered and taking to wing.
Just what effect the recent changes
in the football rules will work on the
game is problematical. These modif-
cations We're introduced for the purpose
of making the play more open and to
do away as much as possible with in
juries to players. One thing is certain |
ii will be likely to develop kicking
game, with the team fortunate in hav-
ing good punters being the probable |
t,i,, to-,
however to grow less, as ii is a fact |
conceded by football men, that more
runners are hurt in attempts to skirt
the ends than are disabled In the mass
plays. While the latter look dangerous
in reality they are not nearly so much |
so as is commonly supposed One good
feature of the change will be that the
spectator will be able to watch more
closely the play, something he could |
not do when the mass formations were
used which hid runner and ball contin
!ually from sight
September race meetings promise to
De the best of the year. and for the
coming month the number is probably
arger than has ever been held within
he state before. partial list of the
iates for the first two weeks of Sep
ember is given below. They are Iowa.
City. Burlington, Oskaloosa, Nashua,
Usage, Sioux City, LeMars, Maquoketa,
Clinton and Anamosa.
Within the past ten days a most pc
'uliar accident has occurred in the
harness racing circles During tina,
ime two worlds records have beer
broken and what was supposed by
many to be an impossibility the two
minute trotter has appeared. Dan
Patch. the king of PAGERS son of Joe
oatchen 2:01 z, went the route in 1853,
while Low Dillon has set the two min
lite mark for the trotters.
The PAGER Frank Yoacum,P 2:o5h,
Who administered such a crushing de-
eat to the Grand Circuit cracks, in the
10000 Brighton purse, is an Iowa
bred horse. He was bred by Hon. j. D.
feoman, member of the Interstate
commission at his Cresco
arm, and is named for Frank Yoakum,
PRESIDENT of the st. Louis and San
francisco r. r. system. Frank Yoa-
lums' sire, Parker, a son of Alcantara,
}: 3d. is still on Mr. Yoamans' farm,
lear Onawa.
H. L. Doherty, of England, Thursday
defeated w. A. Larned, of New Jersey,
md to title of champion tennis player
# England added that of champion of
he United States. BY defeating Larn-
d Doherty completed the clean sweep
which he and his brother have made
n this country this season. Between
hem they hold both the singles and
he doubles championships of the Unit
d States and England, as well as hav-
NC won the Davis international trophy
Without the assistance Of any other
player.
The time Is now ripe for baseball en-
husiasts in central Iowa to commence
he formation of the talked of league
of the half dozen or so towns
md cities of this section. The best
manner in which to get the matter
started would be to hold meeting of
hose interested, say at Marshalltown,
Is the location Is central. While the
sentiment favors II, the time of action
S now, and not after the baseball
season and the national game, have
,iven way to other sports of the fall.