Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-30
The Cedar Valley Circuit Opens
at West Union With Dis
couraging Outlook
THE RACING SEASON BEGUN
Another Rainy Season Threatens to
Practically Exterminate the Prairie
Chickens in Iowa-Fishermen Have a
Kick coming-Northwood Marshall
town High School Base Ball.

| The first harness meeting Of the
| Cedar Valley circuit opened most I'M
favorably, or more properly speaking.
attempted to begin on Wednesday at
West Union. AS a matter of fact with
the track 4 mass of mud. the first days
events We're postponed until Thursday.
There were a large number OF horses
and owners on the ground. and nat
meeting up against the weather, the
latter al once set up long howl.
Not only are they giving the loud
cry at West Union, but within the
past ten days they have been doing
likewise all over the state at the num-
erous tracks where strings are being
worked. II looks as tho the horseman
was liable to be trimmed by about the
same conditions he was last year. and
as a result. it will be probably the mid
die or late summer before the perform
ers, trained In the state, will be fit. If
cult will furnish the best sport.
Speaking of rains calls to mind what
the constant drenching of the land Is
liable TO do to the crop of prairie chick
ems. Right at this time the scattered
few old birds who were left in the state
are incubatng. If the weather contin-
ues for the next ten days or two weeks.
during which time the young chicks
will have been Matched. the larger
share of the little ones will be destroy
ed. AS it is now damage has been
done. but if June 10 does not bring
with it dry weather, the fellow who
wants his birds will have to go OUT
side the state for them. II this wet
condition should exist much longer, it
looks as tho it were the beginning of
the end OF the prairie chicken in Iowa.
with the end but short distance
away.
1t is stated as an actual fact by
travellers in the northern and north
western part of the state that that sec
ton Of the country is so thoroughly
soaked that it would require two
months to dry it out. If this is the
case there may be some slight consol-
alton in the thought to the sportsman
that while the chicken is gone. what a
paradise for ducks of the fall flight it
will be.
Rivers all over Iowa are either boom
ing or have but recently subsidized |
IA, til
makes the fisherman think he has a
Kick a coming. and he believes the |
limrod, as we'll as the chicken hunter,
has a rigflo to law up grudge
against the weather man. With prac-
icaily closed season last year, on ac
cunt of high water and swollen
;treans, this year it starts out APP
,arently with the same purpose in view.
Even the lakes are unusually high.
/ may be consolation to some TO
NOV that it is positively stated By
nose who have just recently returned
hat altho Spirit Lake is hign, the OPEN
ng two weeks of the season has been
'ss good as can be remembered in
ears The catches have been mostly
If pike.
In this city on Tuesday June 2 there
S to be ball game under conditions
hat are a trifie unique. The teams
are those of the Marshall
own and Northwood nigh schools and I,
either has been defeated this year by
chool mines. Both We're beaten once.
irinnell College defeated Marshalltown, :
nd Nora Springs Seminary beat
,orthwood. Northwood has four
traight victories to it's credit, and is
lying claim to the state championship.
has five straight games,
ut has made no particular boasts. II
his is the second season a MARSHALL /
own nineihas gone thru the better part
;ithout defeat. Last years team won
light games, without a single defeat (,
uring the year. l
The announcement of the winners t
T the Iowa Sportsmen's Association
boot held in Osceola recently has been q
emit out The high averages for the
rst two days. the target events, with g
40 birds are Booth 373, first; Crosby
~, second and Heer 36S, third. Gill
ert and wallace tied for fourth place h
18th 367 each.
With the first week of the South
'estern Iowa League completed At i
mite leads the bunch of four, altho her
osition is by no means secure.
Abba is to have a first class race S
,ack. o. r. Peppers, one of the well G
noWn trainers and drivers of the west,
as recently returned from Memphis, a
here he has been wintering with a
ring, and gives it out that he will f