Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-11-21
Most of the Iowa Teams Are
Resting Today For the Big
Battles Thanksgiving
ILLINOIS LIKELY TO WIN
Should Ames Defeat Drake on Next
Thursday She Has Reasonable
Claim for the State Championship
Other Iowa Games-Duck Hunting
Comes to Sudden End.

"No game" marks the schedule today
of most of the big teams of the state
and country. The season of let UP has
arrived, and the final rest before the
light preliminary practice for the hard
games of Thanksgiving day is at hand.
With most OF the teams the national
holiday game is the big one Of the seas
on, and to some of the Iowa teams this
is specially true. AS a result fewer
games of Importance are being played
by the prominent Iowa teams today
than on any Saturday for several
weeks. Grinnell, Simpson, and A.mes
are enjoying day off. Drake played
the Des Moines College this morning.
but the game was largely in the ma
ture of practice one. Iowa is the only
team with a hard proposition OH its
hands.
Try as they would to make as rosy as
possible the faint hope that Iowa would
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the dealers in football dope" at that
Institution have signally failed. Those
who have followed the two teams dur
ing the season see but little chance for
Iowa against the Champaign eleven.
Illinois came out of the Minnesota
game as expected, badly beaten. but not
SO badly so as Iowa. Illinois Is not up
to her usual standard. this year. But
SO far as that Is concerned neither
is the Iowa team, which Is away below
the mark established three or four years
ago. Those who travel any distance
to see the Iowa. Illinois game, in the
hope that the former will win. are al
most sure to disappointed. 1t is almost
a conceded fact that despite the reports
which have been sent out from Iowa
City. Its chances of trimming the
Illinois team are few. 1t is safe to pre-
diet that the game will be won by a
good decisive score.
All the energy of trainer and team.
undergraduate and the following of
Ames is conferred in the Drake game for
day at Des Moines. To
win this game means practically the
state championship for Ames. but to
lose it means a back seat in third
place. Victory means almost as much
to the Des Moines team. and 1t Is safe
to predict that this game will be the
one big contest of the fall. Ames has
yet to be beaten by an Iowa team, and
as she defeated Grinnell by much
larger score than did Iowa. and was
defeated by Minnesota by much
smaller score, her ground for assuming
the state championship seems to be
fairly reasonable. Her chances for win
ming the Drake game are considered
good, and IL anything better than that
of her opponent.
Grinnell battered and beaten, but
game to the very finish. is also almos.
sure of defeat at the hands of the
Simpson team on Thanksgiving day.
Grinnell has played against heavy odds
all season. but despite overwhelming
defeat Is preparing for the Simpson
game with just as much earnestness
as If she had beaten all others, and the
Methodists alone stood between her
and the state honors.
in northern Iowa with the continued
a.most-zero weather of early this week.
The change in the temperature was
accompanied by weather Of such a ma
ture that the migrating birds did not
pause long in their flight from the
north over Iowa. In fact, after the
first cold day, many of the sloughs up
north were frozen over and by the end
of the second they ware all sealed to
the water fowls. Only the larger lakes
furnished resting place for the
winged travellers. On these many
stopped, for short time. but the con-
tinued cold wind from the north soon
sent them scurrying south to a more
bal1ny climate.
The Cerro Gordo county man who
killed the deer did exactly what ninety
nine others out of every hundred would
have done. He saw the animal and his
first thought was to reduce. 1t to VENT
son. Deer have, during the last quar-
ter of century. become so scarce in
Iowa thai all memory of a law pro-
tecting them had departed from the
nlnQS OIL tne dNSIdSG peISoH. S1t1iliC
Warden Lincoln proved reminder in
an effective form. Another deer was
seen recently near Clemens, Marshall
The good people of that Ugh
borhood, If 1t is seen again, will act
wisely II they turn a reluctant ey,
away from its figure and try to think
of other things.
The friends of Charles A. Niles of
Waterloo, Iowa. will be pleased to note
his success with the Terre Haute, Ind,
trotting geldIng Axdelight. 2: III Y. Niles
took charge of Axdelight for I'aul
Kuhn. the Terre Haute horseman who
owns him. about five or six weeks ago.
He started him at Cincinnati and Lex
ington, showing material improvem emit
from week to week. and since taking
him to Memphis he has won two good