Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-04

from Columbia, where he played last
year. Miller is out for place in the
box, and is said to be capable Of let
ting loose some puzzling ones from his
left hand. Carrier is looking toward
the field, while Griffin is after short.
The schedule for the team is given
below:
April 25-Cornell at Ames.
May 2-I. S. N. at Ames.
May 9-Drake at Ames.
May 12-Coe at Ames.
May 15-Grinnell at Grinnell.
May 16-S. U. I. at Iowa City.
May 1S-Cornell at Mt. Vernon.
May 23-S. U. I. at Ames.
May 25-I. S. N. at Cedar Falls.
May 26-Coe at Cedar Rapids.
May 30-GrinnelI at Ames.
June 3-Simpson at Indianola.
June 4-Drake at Des Moines.
In addition to this Manager Cotton
is at present negotiating with the Des
Moines league team for games at Ames
on April 10, IA and Is. Those for May
Is, 16 and Is Will be played while the
team is on drip and are all league
games.
A good many towns that attempt to-
get together semi professional paid
teams fail to make 1t go financially,
not a few of them falling by the way
side before the dog days are over for
want of funds to pay the players. One
of the very noticeable exceptions to
this rule is Algona, up in the central
part of Kossuth county, where for the
past four years bunch of business
men, who love good game properly
played have just sufficient leisure time
not only to see that 1t pays but also to
see that good ball Is played. The AL
gcna baseball association has been able,
during the past four years, and espec-
tally last year, to get together and hold
thru the season probably as fast
bunch of players as any town of its
size in the west.
The Algona Brownies" OF 1902 was
one OF the greatly talked about teams
of the state, and its dusky members
We're the pride of every inhabitant of
the county seat of Kossuth county.
And as a matter of fact, ball game
day in Algona was little short of a
legal holiday and the wheels of COM
merce simply begged down, as it were,
during the period of time required to
play the nine or more innings.
This year these same enthusiasts are
already up and doing and w. A. Cord
ingley, who is managing the team, has
announced the following lineup of
players signed for the season. G..
Johnson, catcher; Jones, Horn. john
son, Foster and Holland pitchers; Rob-
inson, first base. Richardson, second
base. Talbot, third base; S. G. Johnson,
short stop; Barton. left field; Moore,
center field; and Jones right field. The
schedule is not completed but the sea-
son will probably open between May
10 and IS, as the management Is now
busy at work on the dates for the sum-
rner.
The spring duck shooting has been
most erratic and has proven to most
of the hunters an entire disappointment
or very unsatisfactory. Some shooting
was to be had at intervals when the
weather was right in the northern part
of the state, but to make certain of a
bag the hunter was compelled to stay
1t is thought that the greater part of
the flight has passed. for good, and 1t is
not presumed that the recent little cold
wave was sufficient to send them south
again.
Snipe have begun to put in an appear
NICE and with the low ground in the
condition 1t is they should remain with
as for while The snipe While not
exactly constructed along the lines to
resist the cold seems TO be a hardy fell
low, and old hunters say that once he
mas come north 1T takes tremendous
irop in the temperature to send him
south. He probably hates to think of
he fight, now being so we'll equipped
eor long drawn out trips as is the duck.
During cold snaps he stays close in
he tall grass and weeds that border
the edge of open water or small run
ming streams, where the unde rgrowth
has prevented the ground from freez-
ing, and where he can secure at least
scanty forage until the weather per-
mits wider range for food.
The talked of baseball league in
southwestern Iowa has become a reality
with Red Oak, Atlantic, Shenandoah
md Clarinda as the original members.
Each team will play forty-two games
Turing the season which will open May
II and close August %.
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Frank Shubert has been appointed
postmaster at Cottonwood, Lee county,
ice Lizzie Fentley, resigned.
Two valuable horses were stolen from
he stever barn near Fairfield. One
vas bay and one black.