Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-14
SPORTS Talk
Slaughter of Game Discussed at
Meeting of the League of
American Sportsmen
NORTHWEST WILL SUFFER

foWl-Gotch to Meet Tom Jenkins
Illinois State Shoot New Worlds
Bowling Record Made by Chicago.
While the attendance at the annual
convention of the League of American
Sportsmen, held this week in st. Paul,
was comparatively small, matters of
vital interest to sportsmen were
brought up and discussed with spirit
that showed those who We're present
were of the right sort to protect the
country's game and enforce its laws for
this protection. The keynote of one
important matter was struck when DR..
Harry Lee, of Chicago, openly accused
so-called sportsmen of ruthlessly de-
stroying thousands of wildfowl III Illi-
nois and carrying on the same bloody
work in the northwest.
To Iowa sportsmen these statements
are laden with the most potential
prophecy. Iowa is no longer the Mecca
for the hunter that it was two decades
ago, and it is the northwest-Minne-
sofa and the two Dakotas-that the
duck shooters of this state are every
year visiting in larger numbers. In
twenty years more there will be none of
this sport to be had, worthy of the
name within the boundaries of Iowa.
Where then will the horde of hunters
go? To the northwest, the army will
take its sway, but will the fiocks of wild
fowl, rapidly dimishipg under the wan
ton and ruthless murder of the social
ed sportsman, withstand the yearly fu-
silade? They certainly will not.
So sure as the Wild fowl migrates with
the seasons, so sure will the time CONT
when good days bag cannot be gath
cred from lake or marsh of the north
west, unless some radical measure is
taken to prevent them being slaughter
ed in the wholly unchecked manner
they have been in the past. Sportsmen
they call themselves. and the State of
Iowa fairly teens with them, who yearly
visit these localities, and, returning
home, boast of the hundreds, and often
thousands of birds they have killed il
a. single week or ten days hunt When
northern Iowa will no longer furnish an
outlet for the murder that turks in
many of these souls, and the invaders
immo- nrs1 SD99Hb5. "a. heyda h mhm
in a proportionate ratio. what then VIII
become of the mallard, the redhead, the
widgeon and teal that years ago were
driven from central Iowa by this same
method? ~
Not only Is this a subject worthy of
the most earnest consideration of the
states in question. but to much great
err extent should it be of personal inter-
est to every sportsman. Not only should
the laws Of these states be tightly
drawn, but every man should make it
u personal matter to see that he does
not disregard them himself, but holds to
strict accountability the hunter who
does.
Frank Gotsch, the well-known Hum
beldt wrestler. is touring the east with
Farmer Burns, and is matched to
meet Tom Jenkins some time during
this month for $500 side.
Mason City has lined up It's list Of
baseball players for the team of this
season. The team will be managed by
I. r. Cole, athletic manager of Upper
Iowa University. Most of the players
are from Knox college.
The state shoot of the Illinois Sports
mems Association will be held in Pekin.
ILL.,, on April u to "a inclusive. "A large
number of entries are expected, as the
tourney will follow the great American
handicap at Kansas City.
Sir Thomas Lipton's challenger,
Shamrock Ill, will glide into the water
at Glasgow on March II. In thus hon
oring ST. Patrick's day the patron saint
should be good and send his luck with
the third of its kind.
The Gunther fve-man bowling team
of Chicago has established q new
worlds record for u single game. The
total score was La. The previous high
score was held by the Empire team of
New York, with 1,103.
John L. Sullivan, "the dead one" pu-
gilistically, is now more of live one,
financially, than ever. John L. was but
recently discharged in bankruptcy, and
was thereby relieved of the responsible
ity Of debts amounting to $2,65S.
All pugilistic exhibitions look alike
to Mayor Fleischmann, of Cincinnati,
and as result he refused to issue IL
permit for bout between Jeffries and
Fitzsimmons which had been arranged
by a local club for next Monday night.
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Terry McGovern is out to mix with
any of them in his class, first come, first
served He is already slated to clash
with Boyle, Callahan, Attel, Maynard,
Yanger and Ben Jorden of England
Terry certainly has a capacity for tax
ing them on.
The entries for the national bowling
tournament have Chased and include i5
fiye-men teams, 119 two-men teams
and EOS individuals. This is seventy
one more than entered at Buffalo last
year. The prize money amounts TO
$4,000
GLASS PRESIDENT KIDNAPPED.
Freshmen at Wabash College Garry OFF
a Sophomore.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. IA Y.