Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-25
IOWA SPORTS TALK
Baseball Season Opens In Full
Blast Turnout the Country
During Past Week
ANY IOWA TEAMS OUT
Story City and Hampton Will Have
Mines in the Field-Mccoy Sees His
Finish-cIarence English Gaining
Prominence Among Rinsmen-lowa
Horse sold-other Sporting News.


Horse Sold-Other Sporting News.
The past week has brought with 1t
the commencement of the baseball sea-
son turnout almost the entire coun-
try. The big eastern mines have re-
turned from their practice trips in the
south and southwest, and both the
American and National Leagues opened
American Association, the largest of the
western leagues, also commenced to do
business this week, and the smaller
leagues including the Three L." and
Iowa and South Dakota are pealing
their sweaters for the fray. Every
where lovers of the am are preparing
to witness the game they love above
all others.
In Iowa there is every reason to be
|lieve, judging from the reports from
various parts of the state. that there
has not been a season in years In
which there We're so many teams in the
field as there will be this season.
Towns that for the past few years have
not taken enough interest to be rep
resented by a nine are bracing up and
getting ar aggregation of players to-
gether. Several smaller leagues have
been formed in h state, all of which
goes to swell the grand total. The
colleges have also commenced their
season and with Friday and today a
large numbe Of them opened with
their first game.
The Iowa-South Dakota Baseball
League was organized at Sioux City
Thursday night. with LeMars. Sioux
city, Sioux Falls and Council Bluffs
in the league and Omaha and Shell
don under consideration for two other
places. J. v. Samimis, collector for
the northern district of Iowa, was
elected president.
Both Hampton and Story City are
planning to put teams in the field this
year and at Doth places the organiza-
tons have been perfected. Hampton
four years ago had Of the best
mines in central Iowa, but since then
the interest seems to- have died out.
AT Story City DR.. c. B. McCarty Will
manage this years bunch, while W. A.
Kelley will captain it. and NJ. ]. Swan
has been elected secretary.
At Detroit kid" Mccoy saw his sf1n
ish as a fighter, being beaten by Jack
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at one time came close to being n top
notcher. and was only beaten by the
very best of the ringmen. He fought
In the middle weight class, and since
he entered the ring in 1894 has fought
sixty-seven battles. OF these he Won
iifty-three, lost six. drew on one. and on
three there vas no decision. The six
who beat him were Billy Steffers. Ted
White. Tom Sharkey. Jack Mccormick,
Jim Corbett and Jack Root. While he
never landed among the few best ones,
he came close to 1t, and has a record
OF which he can be justly proud.
Clarence English. a handy little
scrapper we'll known to fight goers in
western Iowa, recently o a flyer at
Benny Yanger, the fast Chicago light
weight, in a ten round contest at Kan
sas City. Clarence put Yauger down
twice, once in the second and again In
the ninth, when Yanger was glad to
take a nine count. rangers ring gen.
eralship and cool head brought him
back strong in the tenth and he was
given the decision. but the crowd ooted
the referee and a riot was scarcely re-
strained. English made a capital show
ing however, against n fighter who has
fairly we'll founded championship as
pirations.
English. whose recent headquarters
were at Sioux City, has been hgntlng
in the bushes along the 1owa-Nebraska
line for the past two years. Eddie
Robinson, the wrestler and all-around
athletic instructor, who held
schools at Denison and various VEST
ern Iowa towns, took hold of him and
taught him what he knew. Ills first
light in Iowa was at Schleswig, where
he met and trimmed kid" Hagan, of
chicago. The men met again at Vail
in the opera house and Hagan went out
in seventh round of a fast and game
battle. Afterward he made a show OF
f"Australian Billy" Murphy, at Carroll
and has since continued a triumphant
career among minor fighters and has
|beens." His Kansas City fight gave a
fair line on his ability to mix with the
real thing, and it is now likely that
some pug manufacturer OF note VIII
take him up, in the nope of landing a
champion.
Scales and Potter, of Iowa City, have
sold the trim little pacing mare Enallne
I2:14. by Hubert. to eastern parties VINO
VIII use her for breeding purposes.
+. r. ". Hull. aged 76, died at Alex
ander,s famous Woodburn farm recent
ly of old oge. He was one OF the most
noted harness horse trainers In the
limited States, having broken and tram
ed Maud S., W%edgewood, a
old. and others. He trained for the
Alexanders forty-seven years.
Mrs. Cougar Loses Suit.
Lincoln, Neb., April 25.-County
Judge Waters tonight decided in favor
of the defendants in the suit brought
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