Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-01
Western League Secret Meeting
Certain to Result In Serious
Trouble In the Circuit
WILL AFFECT FOUR LEAGUES
Foot Ball Season Opens Today-List
of the Games Played-Futurlty
Coursing Races at Friend, Mob, oc-
tober 18-AnnuaI Bowling Tourna'
ment to Be Held In Milwaukee.

Trouble of far reacnlng KIM, tht1l
NAV affect four of the leagues OF inc
west. is promised If the arrangement
MANNED by a faction of the Wester"
League should carry. This plan, as
published, is to take In Davenport
pock Island and Moline under one
franchise, and Joplin, Mo-, and iop-
aka. Kas., and drop three Of Its ex-
treme western towns. Should this pc
effected it would cause rupture IN
the Three l League, to which Daven-
mort and Rock Island belong, and an
other in the Missouri Valley League
in which Joplin and Topeka hold fran
chises. should Davenport and ROCK
leland 90 to the Western there is d
possibility that a merging OF Ihree
lea que towns and Iowa State League
cities might result. Des Moines, DIS
satisfied and believing the end or inc
wAstern League Is near at hand, 10
taking steps to find a place in the AM
er,can Association. From the 1ah
meeting of this league, however, comes
the news that the circuit Will not 90
changed. The annual meeting, or tho
western League will be held In Jam
uary.
The foot ball season formally opens
in the state today with number OF
Games. all Of which are more or less
important, being played Below Is "a
list or the games which were played
this afternoon: ,,.
Cornell vs.. Iowa city at io"a Wy.
Coe VS. Ames at Ames.
Drake VS.. Des Moines College.
Grinnell VS.. Nebraska at Llncoin.
g.
The National futurity courslng rae
es will be held this year at FRIEND
Neb. beginning october ~. lhreo
hundred hounds from all parts OIL the
United States have already been en-
tered.
The American Association met ut
Chicago this week and formaliy a.
warded the pennant to st. Paul. Inc
season is reported to have been sue
cessful. The winter meeting Will DC
held in, Chicago, December IL.
with little prospects of the request
being granted Peoria has asked TO be
given a place in the Three League
c;rcnit Peoria did belong but the
game played out earlier in the season,
and the club was dropped
The annual tournament of the Am
erican Bowling Congress will be held
this wear in Milwaukee, and plans FOR
the big gathering of cracks are
already going on. The cash prizes will
total about $4,000.
The chicken season opens In Nebras-
ka On October 1, and there promises
to be an exodus of Iowa hunters to that
state during the early days of the
month, especially from the Missouri
river towns and cities in the western
part Of the state.
Joe Cans and Joe wolcott, the color
ed fighters, are slated to battle Tor
twenty rounds at San Francisco to-
night. Only an Indifferent interest is
taken in the fight. The betting dur
ing recent days has been at even mon
ey, in the belief that Wolcott can not
conveniently make 142 pounds and
fight at his best.
"Kid" Mccoy was awarded the de-
cision oyer Twin" Sullivan after
twenty rounds of fighting at Los An
geles this week. Mccoy was cleverer
and outpointed his opponent.
Clarence English, the well known
pugilist Of Sioux City and it's vicinity,
is in South Dakota where he has been
meeting all corners during recent
months. He is slated to fight French,
a local 1S0-pound man of Mitchell, who
is said to be fast.
Hampton has lined UP football
eleven among the students Of it's high
school, who are undergoing training
under the direction Of A. II. Hinken, a
former player on the Hampton high
school team, and who later played at
Ames. The eleven played its first game
with Eagle Grove this afternoon.
Jabez White, the English feather
weight, has found friend and back
er in the former pugilist, Charley Nit
chell, who offers to match him against
Young Corbett for any part of side
bet of $4,000.