Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-16
10 WA SPORTS TALK
Open Season For Game Fish
Began Friday, May IS
Sport Is Generally Poor
FEW GOOD STRINGS TAKEN
MarshaIItown Team Ready to Defend
Title to [. c. Smith Cup = Sunday
Baseball at creston = Pike for the
Cedar River = The Iowa South Da-
kota Leasue-other Sporting News.


kota Leasue-other Sporting News.
Iowa's open stason for game fish
began Friday, and probably ten thou
sand of her inhabitants lined the banks
| of rivers and streams and fished in the
lake from boats. Probably nine thou
sand and five hundred of these returned
| home empty handed, and the other five
hundred had luck of rather Indifferent
sort. The first day of the open season
| never fails to draw the crowd in quest
of the game. and it is on this day that
| many go for the only trip of the season.
While there are more or less fish in the
waters of Iowa, the fellow who goes
fishing only once year doesn't know
how to get them out of the water.
The first day of the open season Is
usually too strong an inducement to be
resisted by the fellow who goes but once
during the summer. and he with his
wife and daughters and best girl make
up the bulk of the crowd. They got
what they went after tired and sun
burned. The old fellow who goes out
after the meat" and keeps on going,
either did not go at all. or
did go and at least got a few,
or will wait until the conditions are
more favorable. Most of the streams
orb ,x,it ta,. al a
unfit to furnish good sport The lakes
in the northern part of the state, where
the fishing is usually best early In the
season. ought to have given up some
good strings Friday, as the fishermen
were there. some of them for several
days waiting for the opening.
While there are scheduled any num-
Der of shoots for the summer months,
there is another that could be easily
arranged If there is a club team in the
state that wishes to have go for the
Smith cup. now owned by the Mar
shalltown Gun Club. This cup is al
ways open to challenge, and the local
organizatio is not only ready to defend
its title. but will in addition. to make
the trip worth while to outside shoot
ers, arranged a two days program /
has defended her right |
to the trophy three times. defeating |
Waterloo and Ottumwa, the former
twice. The race for the cup is hard
one. Two hundred and fifty birds for
the team of five men, divided into ten
pairs and thirty singles.
sss
Sunday baseball has stirred the min
sters Of Creston into a determined
action to have this Sabbath day sport
lone away with. The association
packing the team and the ministers are
both holding their ground and the out
zone will be watched with interest.
The baseball men say the Sunday gate
'eceipts pay the expenses, so that 1t
s either Sunday games or no games at
III. In this respect Creston resembles
chicago somewhat.
c. II. Haney, manager of the Hamp-
on club. is trying to form an indepen
lent league in northern Iowa, to be
of Waterloo. Webster City, j
Fort Dodge, Vinton, Charles City, Ma /
on City, Algona. Oelwein, Waseca, AL II
II
ought to prove success as
everal of the fastest teams in northern {
owa are scheduled in the list. II
The fishermen of the Cedar River
ave been favored with another small
lstallment of 100000 wall eyed" pike,
hat have been recently placed in that =
tream, by the game and fish warden,
ieorge Lincoln. There are a lot Of peo 9
lie residing on the banks of the Iowa
Tho wonder what is the system" used y
y the Waterloo sportsmen, as the
edar was favored with similar do !
alton last summer
The reorganization of the Iowa South n
akota Baseball League has now been =
1mpleted and a profitable season is E
Spected. AS reorganized. the league h
insists of four clubs, those of Sioux q
ity, Council Bluffs and LeMars, Iowa, y
id Sioux Falls Sioux Falls opens ,,
lie season at home with Council Bluffs o
1 June g Sioux City and LeMars will g,
zen at Sioux City May 81. Il
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The Algona brownies" one of the r
est known and one of the best teams
northern Iowa, opened their season
it'll game against the Sioux Falls A
am of the Iowa South Dakota League. fl
avis, an 1S-year-old pitcher, has been N
lded to the Algona nine. b,
$50 tie
w. r. Crosby, of Illinois, one of the bt
nous trap shooters of the country, P
Gently at Charlottesville, Ind, gave an b.
at the traps that was little tt
ort of machine like in its deadly GER re
inty. In a two days run in various m
ents, he broke 39S out of 400 targets &C
rown. The record made in open con- til
st is unprecedented. 81
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